Many of us in the Julia community are enthusiastic about the typst typesetting language, which shares similar goals with latex but with a radically different design philosophy. Currently typst is mostly used to output PDF’s, but HTML output is in heavy development and I anticipate that this will co…

Cool experiment! What happens to Typst docstrings in the REPL?

It will show you the doc string as normal but the highlighting will likely be screwed up from the assumption it’s markdown (though there is a subset of typst and github markdown that are compatible). Typst can generate PNG’s so it’s probably possible to hook in with KittyTerminalImages or Sixel, th…

There might be a macro @typst_doc that returns a TypstString (or some other wrapped value), which can then be displayed as a string or rendered in compatible terminals. Rendering for compatible terminals should work out of the box after loading the appropriate package . Similarly, one could create a …

RFC: TypstDocs.jl (Julia package documentation in typst)

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RFC: TypstDocs.jl (Julia package documentation in typst)

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