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Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use" (github.com)
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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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  1. Type: Webpage. Title: "typst/typst". Publisher: "GitHub". Published (Modified): 2026-03-16T09:39:55.000Z. Accessed: 2025-03-18T08:55Z. URI: https://github.com/typst/typst.
    1. Type: File. Title: "README.md".
      • Type: Text. Location: ¶1.
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[–] badabim@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not the same use case. Asciidoc is closer to markdown/org/reST, i.e., simple markup languages, whereas Typst also emphasizes on presentation (layouting, element positioning, creation of complex figures, etc.). You can reproduce features from Asciidoc in Typst using scripting.

As for editors, aside from the official webapp, and the community LSP (tinymist), there aren't that many available.

[–] PandaInSpace@kbin.earth 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for explaining. It seems like I had a completely different understanding/exoectation of what typst is.