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I'm in academia and used to use LaTeX for everything, and have switched almost 100% to typst. Not many of my colleagues are aware of typst but a few use it. I
by k2enemy 3mo ago
I'm in academia and used to use LaTeX for everything, and have switched almost 100% to typst. Not many of my colleagues are aware of typst but a few use it.
I think there is hope though. Grad students are slowly picking it up, and they are the future of academia. I've seen similar transitions away from Fortran and Matlab as grad students embrace different tools than what their advisors use.
- cozzyd 3mo agoUntil the arxiv supports it, what's the point?
- adamnemecek 3mo agoYou can export typst as latex.
- Stone515 3mo agoYes, I am a graduate student majoring in mathematics, and my classmates and I strongly hate tikz, especially when drawing relatively complex diagrams like TQFT. But we discovered cetz, and we really love it As for ordinary formula input, we usually already have our preferred snippets, so tpyst doesn’t offer much advantage. But for drawing figures, typst is really incredibly powerful