Typst for writing

[ZokszY]

I've been forced to use LaTeX in the past and now I can make do with it. But for students who don't know anything about LaTeX, I feel like Typst is much simpler to learn and use than LaTeX. I've forced convinced quite a few students to try it in projects with me, and I've only heard positive feedback.

I don't know if there are reasons related to academic writing that make Typst unusable for papers, but since it's specifically designed with LaTeX in mind, I don't think so. I think that although Typst in still in development, it is stable and reliable enough.

If this is approved, I can try to make a nice introduction to Typst myself, with what I learnt when using it, from the basics of the syntax to simple customisation.

[hugoledoux]

I fully agree with what you wrote, and the plan was to add this eventually. I actually spent some time recently converting the geomatics latex template to Typst: https://github.com/hugoledoux/msc_geomatics_thesis_typst/ almost all is working, almost...

But I welcome very much an intro, if you start it I'm happy to help and merge!

[ZokszY]

I've looked at your template and it looks very well structured and mostly complete to me. I don't really think that I can come up with something better, and I feel like the README of the repo is already something nice to start from to put an introduction in GeoGeeks. Maybe the only problem with this template (in the perspective of discovering Typst) is that it is already quite complex so it would be nice to have a more concise introduction with the bases of Typst in GeoGeeks, and then a link to that template.

So if you agree I can start working on some simple introduction to Typst for GeoGeeks (there should not be too much to write, mainly pointing to their nice documentation).

[hugoledoux]

Yes I agree.

I think it's best if the gory details are hidden in the template and people can just type simple text and they are done... most people don't want to learn Typst and deal with the mess.

But if you want to improve some aspects, I'm happy to receive PR

[hugoledoux]

@ZokszY fc79557

I did some cleaning of geogeeks and now there are 1page per writing software: latex, markdown, and typst