I just wrote a Typst backend for Documenter.jl and managed to build the latest Julia documentation. juliadoc.pdf Google Drive file. Footnotes are not supported yet, while math equations are kept as is since Typst uses a different grammar and there is no tr…

Would it be possible to take advantage of Typst’s incremental compilation abilities and launch the compilation before the .typ document is finalized?

Sorry if this is a daft question: what is the point of another backend (in addition to those that already exist)? These all output the same documents? Don’t they?

[image] PetrKryslUCSD: what is the point of another backend [image] lucifer1004: A big advantage is the compilation speed. .

This is unnecessary since the generation of the .typ file is much faster than the compilation.

Compilation of the PDF documentation took a lot of time in Julia’s CI. This is the reason why I started this experiment.

Interesting. Why exactly is it that Typst is much faster than Latex to produce PDF?

because it’s not LaTeX (doesn’t go through TeX at all)

I realize that. But why is the compilation into PDF faster?

[image] PetrKryslUCSD: Why exactly is it that Typst is much faster than Latex to produce PDF? Why is LaTeX so slow? Takes about 40 minutes on my computer. It takes about 30 minutes in GitHub action. If all tex files are exported and compiled 3 times in draft mode using lualatex , it only…

May be i am misunderstanding, but it sounded as if right now no coloring of code was done with Typst. And, the source code coloring with Pygments was the reason the build took so long. So how will things be better with Typst once one throws the syntax coloring in?

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lucifer1004 April 17, 2023, 9:25am 16

No, I have not benchmarked the two tools myself. There are cases where syntect has big advantages. For example,

bat uses syntect for syntax highlighting.

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