A Wikipedia article about Typst

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Currently there is no Wikipedia article about Typst in any language. Two drafts in the English Wikipedia have been rejected in a span of a month (March and April 2024) for the same reason: the lack of multiple published sources that are in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject), reliable, secondary and independent of the subject.

IMHO Typst’s user base is large enough to merit an article on Wikipedia. What we lack for it to be accepted is external sources. I also think we should expand it so it is no longer a stub before resubmitting, to eliminate any grounds for rejection, beyond doubt.

There are some quotes from Redditors on the landing page (under A more productive workflow for science), but I couldn’t find a ‘press’ page on the Typst website. If we gather here a sufficient number of good articles and references, it might be a good idea to make such a page (or a section on the landing page). @reknih @laurmaedje

CTA:

  • Add sources (there on the draft, or here in a reply and someone else will add them there).
  • Improve and expand the draft. Inspiration for the structure and what to include can be found in other articles about software (for typesetting or otherwise).
  • When there is agreement everything is ready, resubmit :white_check_mark:
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I’m not familiar with Wikipedia, but I’ve seen secondary sources in a different language than the original article. In which case, I think we could use in no particular order:

Blogs:

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Here’s some more links from our SEO system that have not been posted yet.

The problem, I guess, that no traditional IT news venue has reported on Typst yet. While I don’t think we can land a The Verge/Engadget/TechCrunch… article from the get go, a good place to start would be higher profile news blogs and podcasts. If you have you listen to / read one of those or even know the hosts, ask them that you would like to hear more about Typst. We are open to joining for telling our story!

On the page of our University incubator: StarTUps 2023 - Typst - TU Berlin (DE)

Our talk at Ubuntu Summit 2023: Ubuntu Summit 2023 (3-5 November 2023): LaTeX: It's not you, it's me · Canonical / Ubuntu Events (Indico)

Blogs:

French:

Japanese:

Russian:

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And in your bio on that page:

In the team, I’m the guy who loves shipping stuff: What could possibly go wrong? I’m also the guy who will stay up late to fix things when they inevitably go wrong, but I would not have it any other way.

I had no choice of being reminded of this forum’s Saturday afternoon launch :joy: love it, thank you for all your work!

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A talk about Typst was given at TUG 2023

https://tug.org/tug2023/program.html

(July 14, 16:30)

Another from JuliaCon

Importantly, neither speaker is affiliated with typst

Edit:
From posit::conf (Typst and Quarto)

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Quarto support

Support for typst in Inkscape:

https://textext.github.io/textext/

Support in pandoc (read and write)

https://pandoc.org/

The vscode extension:

Symbol classifier:

Not sure what’s worth mentioning, but some of these definitely lend typst credibility

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I just now remembered this as well:

This book was typeset in typst

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I don’t know if it would help, but I wrote a very short typst introduction in my thesis at Reproducibility in Software Engineering page 63.

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Although I don’t think it is considered to be a “high-profile” publication, I recently wrote an introductory article on Typst for the community magazine of my primary Linux distro:

“Exploring Typst: a LaTeX Alternative”

The PDF version (p. 27-36) looks a bit nicer, as it was produced with Scribus.

(The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published monthly since 2006; it is put together by community volunteers.)

I have also written a second part, which explains how to install the Typst compiler locally and configure it for use with the VSCodium editor. That article should appear in the December issue of the magazine.

I’m a beginner with Typst but hopefully the article does not contain many errors.

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Two new entries:

(it wasn’t me who found them, I’m just adding them to the list)

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Straight out of the email mines: A spammy agency has noticed that our Wikipedia article was rejected. Interesting to see that these kind of services are apparently in demand.

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This is fun lol, it’s probably because I’ve tried re-submitting and got rejected.

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The second part of my article on Typst was published in the December issue of The PCLinuxOS Magazine:

“How to Install The Typst Compiler Locally on PCLinuxOS.”

There is also a PDF version (p. 34-41) available.

I’m posting this in case it might be of interest to any readers.

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There’s a paper on arXiv that has a non-trivial example of using Typst (and was obviously written in it :P) that I don’t think has been mentioned:
Guiding Large Language Models to Generate Computer-Parsable Content (mainly on page 19)