[trc001]

I tried this out this week for a 2 page technical memo. It generally works great, and pandoc can sort of convert latex to typst to get you started, but the crucial thing it’s missing atm is the ability to embed pdf images. You have to convert to svg or a rasterized format first. Way too much of my workflows are written to produce visualizations in pdf, and this creates enough friction to keep me from using it for anything bigger than a memo. Other than the pdf thing though, I’m sold. The improved compilation time (which is not an overleaf thing — latex is slow) is huge

[teo_zero]

I've read the full docs, plus explored the code in github, and found zero information about how Typst handles hyphenation. This is big 'no go' for any work not in English. Which is surprising since the authors are German!

[laurmaedje]

Typst handles hyphenation very similarly to TeX.

https://github.com/typst/hypher

https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/hypher/

[teo_zero]

Thank you. How do you set the language in Typst?

[laurmaedje]

#set text(lang: "de") would set it to German for instance.

See also: https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text/#parameters-lang