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by fermigier 1255 days ago
Impressive, as a Master's thesis, but also as a long-term project.

I've been recently working on a book project, and I've reviewed all the tools available. My current conclusion is that I found nothing that would combine the simplicity of Markdown or Asciidoc with the typographical control of LaTeX.

This project seems to hit the sweet spot.

Is the source code of the thesis available somewhere? Of other works created with Typst? That would help making a more educated bet.

Edit: this doesn't seem to be an open source project. So not what I'm looking for.

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Hey, I'm the author of the thesis. Thanks for the kind words! Just wanted to let you know that while Typst isn't open source yet, we are planning to open source it in March. We will also make a free CLI tool available as to not lock anybody into our web app.

There isn't much Typst source code out there yet, but you can find some examples and discussion on our Discord server [1] and in our documentation [2].

[1]: https://discord.gg/2uDybryKPe

[2]: https://typst.app/docs/

Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H46ON2FB30U and the twitter feed for more examples: https://twitter.com/gnu_texmacs
Have you tried org-mode?