<story><title>Typst – Compose Papers Faster</title><url>https://typst.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnKemeny</author><text>I would recommend testing Markdown and Pandoc.  It&amp;#x27;s open source, and it can export to pdf (via latex), html, latex, doc(x), odt, rst, wiki, ...</text></item><item><author>huijzer</author><text>I‘ve been using Typst in production to generate a PDF on the fly and it has been amazing. Much smaller dependencies than LaTeX and it was also extremely fast. The syntax takes a bit of getting used to but compared to LaTeX I can’t complain. It looks like a powerful syntax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>The upcoming 1.4 release of quarto is going to have support for Typst as an output format (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quarto.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;prerelease&amp;#x2F;1.4&amp;#x2F;typst.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quarto.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;prerelease&amp;#x2F;1.4&amp;#x2F;typst.html&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;As capable as it is, Latex is just too damn complicated unless you&amp;#x27;re using someone&amp;#x27;s carefully maintained template and never trying to deviate, even slightly, from the template. Too many brain cells have been sacrificed to LaTeX. It&amp;#x27;s time to move on. Hopefully Typst can pull it off.</text></comment>
<story><title>Typst – Compose Papers Faster</title><url>https://typst.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnKemeny</author><text>I would recommend testing Markdown and Pandoc.  It&amp;#x27;s open source, and it can export to pdf (via latex), html, latex, doc(x), odt, rst, wiki, ...</text></item><item><author>huijzer</author><text>I‘ve been using Typst in production to generate a PDF on the fly and it has been amazing. Much smaller dependencies than LaTeX and it was also extremely fast. The syntax takes a bit of getting used to but compared to LaTeX I can’t complain. It looks like a powerful syntax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huijzer</author><text>I needed a pretty PDF with headers and footers. Markdown was not expressive enough.</text></comment>