What is the most efficient typst workflow for collaboration and publications

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While we wait on journals and preprint servers to start accepting typst files (as well as reach more and more users), I am wondering what folks are doing to make their manuscript writing/collaboration more efficient.

What is required for a manuscript submission (e.g., in mathematics, physics domains) is

  • Collaboration between authors including track changes and margin comments.
  • Use a journal’s supplied Latex style file and macros to write the manuscript.
  • Submit your document as a Latex file upon acceptance.

Now if my collaborators don’t know Typst (or md for that matter), then the options are Word, G Doc, and Overleaf, with Overleaf being the preference for easy Latex. But I don’t want to use clunky Latex.

So how do I use Typst, my collaborators use Latex, can have margin/comments and track changes, be able to use supplied style files, and ultimately produce a Latex file for submission. I don’t think a solution exists here (with the main issue that folks don’t know how Typst, otherwise we’d just use the Typst online platform).

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You’re right. Typst is easy to learn in minutes, but study well and move workflow from LaTeX to Typst may take quite some time.

When different co-authors use different pens, how to compose a single article?
Well, you have to choose one as the main from Word, LaTeX, Typst…

I can tell that Typst is the best choice, 'cause

  1. incremental, no re-compile from blank
  2. fast, compile pdfs at average over 10x than fastest LaTeX
  3. easy, learn in minutes and migrate from LaTeX in a month (then u have to teach ur co-author about the new pen)
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Thanks, but there are a few more issues.

  1. My coauthors may not know Typst and therefore creates a learning curve for them. This isn’t particularly that big of an issue, but everyone is busy and I personally would like the work done faster.

  2. The other, more serious, issue is that the journal we are targeting provides its own latex macros as well requires a latex file for submission. So even if I use Typst to write the initial draft, there is going to be some work involved at the submission stage. I recognize there is probably no solution for this 2-language problem right now, but was hoping to get some ideas from folks.