What does HackerNews think of typst?
A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
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You might enjoy https://typst.app/
The underlying input->PDF toolchain is open source, and very nice: https://github.com/typst/typst
> That’s why no one is proposing an alternative to TeX.
Hmm you can use typst[0], it's modern and, of course, written in Rust.
Joke aside, this look more friendly for devs. I think I will try it the next time I need to write paper-like documentations.
Might I recommend https://github.com/typst/typst ?
I wanted to make sure you're aware of https://github.com/typst/typst -- Typst is a great clean formatting language that's worthy of taking on TeX!
Typst might be powerful enough that Burro's "explicit layout" desire could be implemented as a library in it.
Skip it and go straight to Typst.
It seems to be on github with an Apache license (https://github.com/typst/typst). Is there a catch I'm not seeing?
Typst is new but at this point I'd explore that, myself. Much more pleasant than LaTeX, and quite capable: