Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?

  • KillTheMule
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    8 months ago

    I have an app that ultimately renders pdfs via typst. I’m starting to write tests for the output, exporting the documents to png instead and then applying something like https://github.com/kornelski/dssim or so.

    (If anyone has experience with that, I’d take any hint I get ;))

    • secanaOP
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      8 months ago

      Cool! What’s your impression of typst? Is it ready to replace latex or is it still in its infancy?

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        8 months ago

        It’s absolutely awesome. For my use case, it already surpasses latex, but I’m pretty sure that for other usecases there will be a point where latex offers more, at least due to ecosystem support. I for sure made the switch (wrote some personal docs in typst as well), and I’d suggest anybody at least looks into switching, it’s so much better :)

        From a dev perspective, it’s also great that this is useable as a lib, instead of having to muck with an external binary (or rather full external latex installation).