You guys should also check out Typst https://typst.app/. It is a lot easier than LaTeX even though not as powerful. It has meaningful error messages making the debugging a lot more user friendly.

[–] nice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago

I had been using LaTeX at work and decided to give Typst a try:

I installed the compiler and vscode extensions to run Typst natively.

Setting up my orgs template in Typst was significantly easier then LaTeX and took about 20% less lines of code.

I like the more modern, practical syntax for writing docs.

It's still a relatively young project though, so I found a few rough edges:

Paragraph indentation rules for my language weren't available: managed to find a workaround though
Only allows use of relative paths for images, imports etc: apparently for security reasons, forces me to have template logo in almost every folder
Localized dates: Typst can't do it
No \graphicspath like command: LaTeX will search for an image by filename in each specified folder, in order. Typst has no equivalent command (yet)

Overall I was positively impressed, but went back to LaTeX mostly because of the last two points. Curious to see how Typst will be in a few years!

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