Does /g/ use Typst? If so, what do y'all use it for?
>>109275981/g/ is an inanimate webpage on an anonymous imageboard. are you feeling okay, anon?
>>109276003/g/ is an image board on a site full of different image boards. Being a board, it is not inanimate. There are posters making new posts on it every minute, which changes the page loaded every time you refresh the site. Those posters can be addressed by the board they choose to post upon regularly.Are you new?
>y'allBig ick
>>109275981I use LaTeX.
>>109275981>Does /g/ use Typst?Yes.>If so, what do y'all use it for?I'm experimenting with it as a markdown replacement.
>>109275981I recently switched to Typst coming from LyX/LaTeX and I really like how clean and readable Typst is compared with LaTeX.I'm currently testing Typst out using Typesetter to document what I've learned about playing with Sipeed FPGAs and Amaranth. It's mainly to organize my notes but should be handy for those who want to learn Amaranth but got discouraged by the lack of educational literature that has enough details to actually be useful when trying to learn this skill. Most books only go over high level shit but lack the boots on the ground, highly detailed info to actually use the learned concepts, which is infuriating. Even books aiming at practitioners include code snippets that they didn't test or just go over some few lines and forget to mention some detail, necessitating a wild goose hunt by the reader to get the lines of the author to work! Anyways, I guess I should get back to work to make something that isn't just a handwavy mess that wastes the time of its readers.Typesetter is a minimalist Typst editor that is really nice to use. LyX looks like a fucking cockpit with all the menu buttons and menues and switching to Typesetter helps me to focus on my work.
>>109275981>what do y'all use it for?I use it in my work to make some nice looking templates and letterheads (mainly for legal opinions and service offers). It's great for me as a non-technical person, as the syntax is easier than LaTeX. I'm sure LaTeX is probably more powerful or has more features if you write maths or science papers, but for producing consistent document templates to use in the office, Typst has been great so far.
>>109278069>I'm sure LaTeX is probably more powerful or has more features if you write maths or science papersLaTeX and Typst are both Turing complete. Neither should be more powerful than the other, though due to LaTeX's age, it has more libraries and templates available currently. The ease of programming for Typst may change that in the long run.
>>109278143>due to LaTeX's age, it has more libraries and templates available currently.I guess this is what I meant. That said, I haven't yet encountered something that I can't do in Typst for my limited usecase at least.
I do for writing reports at work. Tried to move my colleagues as well, installed vscode with tinymist, spellcheck, made templates for most of our reports but they still prefer to use MS Word
>>109275981No because journals require latex templates
I use texmacs sometimes.
>>109275981It’s latex but modernunfortunately academia hates everything that isn’t at least 30 years old so the only real use is for productivity porn people who totally didn’t just waste a dozen hours rewriting their shitty notes to be slightly prettier
>>109275981stop shilling this retardation
>>109275981Letters to my doctor Business cardsI vibe-coded a cheat sheet for my keyboard layout
>>109275981I use RMarkdown like any man should
>>109278550What's retarded about this, anon?
>>109275981I think I'll use it for my next automated testing system that has to generate neat looking PDFs as its output since editing PDFs is such a hussle with other free tools.With typst it's just one line in the terminal to generate a PDF with a typst document to quickly get a layout that looks nice.It's also a huge plus to not give Abobe any money for their professional PDF tools.
>>109278253>they still prefer to use MS WordYour colleagues are cringe M$ fanbois.I get that creating templates with a new tool like typst could be daunting for people but not using your templates with a tool that's so much more fun to use than M$ Word is cringe.
>>109275981No, got my major long time ago, am not scientist, so I no longer have to write papers.Thank god. Hated it.
hacker news is that way.
>>109278955You laugh but there’s been a fair bit of ground gained by ms word in academia, which generally was THE place for latex
>>109275981>Does /g/ use Typst?Yes.>If so, what do y'all use it for?Writing and publishing research papers. Typst is so easy it's helped increase my production and output.
>>109275981No, the name is too dumb
>>109275981This garbage literally can't wrap long words in codeblocks. Call me when there's a serious competitor to LaTeX
>>109276108And these so called "posters" you're talking about, are they in the room with us?
>>109280044Typst is a dumb name for a TYPeSeTting language?
