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The latest version has Typst support and allow producing pdf files much faster than any LateX distribution. Even with a complex template it compiles almost inst
by fredguth 3y ago
The latest version has Typst support and allow producing pdf files much faster than any LateX distribution. Even with a complex template it compiles almost instantly and you can see the final pdf changing while you are typing.
- ericjmorey 3y agoI'm increasingly accepting of the opinion that PDFs are an obsolete file format.
- cscheid 3y ago(disclosure: I work on Quarto) I 100% agree with you. It's partly why tools from the Quarto lineage (knitr, rmarkdown) work hard to make popular latex features like crossreferences work in HTML and other forward-facing formats. At the same time, if you haven't tried Typst, my opinion is that doing so is an afternoon well spent. It's an impressive system even early in its development stage. I'm hoping it finally displaces LaTeX --- and I'm a former academic having written about a hundred papers in LaTeX!
- CJefferson 3y agoI have high hopes for Typst, but I'm very disappointed they didn't design for accessibility from the start (and nice HTML would have done the job). It's shocking how inaccessible latex's output is, and yet Typst manages to be even worse! Quarto's html output on the other hand is generally lovely for accessible output.
- __mharrison__ 3y agoAs an author, PDFs are indispensable. A good chunk of folks still prefer to read physical books. When I migrated my own tooling from rst, I was looking at Quarto but ended up rolling my own pandoc/md tooling.
- ericjmorey 3y agoWhy not use epub?
- __mharrison__ 3y agoHard to print a good looking physical book from EPUBs. (I generate EPUBs too.)