I've ditched Pandoc + Latex for Typst for a book [1] that I'm writing. Typst is as easy to write a Markdown, and so much easier to program than Latex (though it is still a bit rough in some places). In Latex I would have to rely on a slew of packages to get anything done, and then work around their quirky interactions. With Typst it's feasible to just write it myself. It's also really fast and doesn't poo all over the file system. Strong recommend if you're producing technical documentation with PDF as your primary target.

[1]: https://github.com/scalawithcats/scala-with-cats/tree/featur...

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