Meander for parshape [LWN.net]

Meander for parshape

Posted Sep 19, 2025 6:06 UTC (Fri) by yashi (subscriber, #4289)
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement

> Typst provides no analogue to LaTeX's parshape command

Meander seems to do it: https://github.com/typst/packages/pull/3065

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Meander for parshape

Posted Sep 19, 2025 11:28 UTC (Fri) by leephillips (subscriber, #100450) [Link] (2 responses)

Very nice! It even has real documentation.

This was first released while we were still working on the article. In other words, my prediction is coming true: that packages for Typst will emerge rapidly, because it’s easy (easier) to program in.

Meander for parshape

Posted Sep 19, 2025 15:27 UTC (Fri) by adnl (guest, #179418) [Link]

I came here to suggest this as well! I'm writing a grant with meander and the developer was able to add multi-page support in <24hrs after I mentioned it, wild stuff

Inclusion of PDF

Posted Nov 8, 2025 12:47 UTC (Sat) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link]

And inclusion of PDF documents came with Typst v0.14 the other week. We're going to need a new list of drawbacks ;)