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Bad comparison

Posted Sep 27, 2025 12:04 UTC (Sat) by norbusan (guest, #10100)
Parent article: Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement

Typst should be compared to plain TeX. It provides the basics (and in contrast to Typst, TeX itself is stable). Typst is decades away from being able to produce things like https://www.tug.org/texshowcase/ - and after those decades have passed, Typst will have its own pain of backward compatibility, quirks, and left-overs.

As wtih coreutils, as with several other places, first of all "I'm so shiny" (thanks Moana!), but reality is different.

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Posted Sep 27, 2025 13:26 UTC (Sat) by Delio (guest, #179554) [Link]

Typst can already do most of the things in this showcase. The exceptions I see are the music notation, and the documents that use esoteric PDF features (interactive buttons, embedded 3D object, movies) which might not be far away since the Typst pdf-writer module has recently integrated support for multimedia embeddings, but there seems to be little interest to push this further as these things are poorly supported in most PDF viewers.

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Posted Sep 27, 2025 16:06 UTC (Sat) by Lonjil (guest, #152573) [Link]

> Typst is decades away from being able to produce things like https://www.tug.org/texshowcase/

? Almost everything on that page is basic typesetting, and most of the stuff that isn't is just about levering funny PDF features.

Have you actually looked at Typst and its package ecosystem?