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Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use" (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. ^[1.1]^

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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

[…] LaTeX ignores whitespace, so you can just use a formatter to space out your code and ensure the curly braces. This is not even an option in typst, which uses the space as an escape character.

I'm not sure I exactly follow what you mean. Could you elaborate?