I’m thrilled to join this new discourse forum dedicated to Typst! As a long-time user of LaTeX, I’ve recently made the switch to Typst for writing engineering documents and reports, and I couldn’t be happier. In fact, I’ve gone ahead and migrated all my existing templates from LaTeX over to Typst – that’s how impressed I am with this new platform!
It’s the clean, intuitive interface, powerful formatting options, and excellent rendering speeds that I like – all of which have made my transition from LaTeX an absolute breeze.
I’m looking forward to exploring this forum and connecting with fellow Typst users. I hope we can share tips, ask questions, and collaborate on projects together. After all, that’s what makes online communities like these so valuable!
A big thank-you to the Typst team for opening this discourse forum. It’s wonderful to see your commitment to building an active, engaged community around your fantastic software.
Let’s make the most of this space and help each other get even more out of Typst!
As a long-time LaTeX user myself, I feel the same. While I love LaTeX, Typst brings fresh air which is much needed, and it is a joy to use and program in.
So this is the Typst version of the ‘rewrite it in Rust’ meme I guess… Everything here is oxidising.
Both religions share core elements, such as the sacred phrase ‘it’s pronounced [IPA symbols]¹’ when you introduce your cult religion to the uninitiated, and the meticulous care for capitalisation.
Hello everyone.
I’m sorry I don’t speak English.
Typst is very good.
I have made a small typst manual pdf in Spanish.
Can I upload it here in case it can help more people who are starting now?
hi @tgoni, I have moved this message to our “hello” thread ;)
I think it’s a good idea and definitely within the forum rules as I understand them. Maybe as a topic in Showcase (especially if the PDF itself is made with Typst)?
Hello everyone. I’m a Linux user, and my favorite distro is Debian. I’m looking into getting more familiar with your ecosystem, before any serious investment of time and energy. I see you have no Debian packages to speak of, for Typst. No flatpaks either. At least you have a docker container, which is better than nothing.
Also positive: thanks for having some Open Source goodness whatsoever, and thanks for using Discourse as your forum!
Hi @Esbeeb, welcome to the forum! There is some discussion on the progress to package Typst for Debian in this issue. Basically, Debian has a policy of packaging every library independently so we have to wait for the Typst dependencies (Rust libraries) to be packaged first, and there has been good progress on that front.
Do you have a concrete need that is not practically served by installing Typst manually or building from source? Note that compared to something like LaTeX, Typst is fantastically easy to install: the official build is just a single static binary. Literally a single file to put in your PATH and you’re done. It’s also easy to build yourself: install cargo (you can use the Debian package from trixie-backports), clone the repository and run cargo build --release.
I guess a Flatpak could be useful although the Flatpak system is designed/optimized for GUI apps more than command-line tools.
