# Building Julia documentation using Typst

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-documentation-using-typst/97498
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Tags:** documenter
**Created:** [April 15, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-documentation-using-typst/97498 "2023-04-15T00:03:43Z")
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### Author: ![lucifer1004](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lucifer1004/32/22311_2.png) [@lucifer1004](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lucifer1004)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-documentation-using-typst/97498/3 "2023-04-15T04:22:06Z")

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Actually, 13mins is already much faster than the LaTeX backend. But there is definitely much room for perf hunting.

Also, the bottleneck is the final compilation (.typ → .pdf), and the first step (MarkdownAST → .typ) is fast enough.

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