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by Pay08 25 days ago
How difficult is creating templates from scratch? I generally use a document class like lecture[0] or report[1] in LaTeX but a quick search hasn't turned up anything similar for Typst.

[0]: https://ctan.org/pkg/lectures

[1]: https://github.com/SeniorMars/dotfiles/tree/main/latex_templ...

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It's much easier than latex in my limited experience. For example I wanted to reproduce the 400-line .sty file I use for submitting assignments in the maths course I am studying in my part time. I have evolved that from something I found in someone's github over 3 years and it's still not quite right in some boring ways. This is 60 lines that I did in one afternoon and already it does everything the other one did and some things better than the old one.