[grep_name]

I might have to give it a try. There's a lot I like about the idea of latex but I've never been able to successfully internalize how to use it in a non-painful way either. I've pretty much given up on the whole idea of making a PDF do what I want at this point.

I've looked into typst before and am always turned off hugely by the website's attempt to make it look like some sort of purchased product with a freemium option. I don't really ever like to commit to anything I can't use with a basic commandline / plain text pipeline or that I don't expect to be available in a long-term way without enshittifying. Looking closer at the actual repo for the first time, it seems like I can use it that way, so it warrants investigation, but I'm still leery of the project because of its presentation

[throwaway_7274]

Oh yeah, I can’t imagine most people are using their web editor thing. Good for them that they have it, I guess. It looks like it’s done well, a strong competitor for Overleaf. I’ve never even opened it, though, to be honest.

It is a little bit unfortunate that they don’t distinguish more clearly Typst-the-program and Typst-the-company in their advertising.

[jeltz]

I have only ever used it as a command line tool and written my Typst files in Sublime.