What else would you use to generate PDFs from a text-based template?

20-ish years ago I wrote a system to do that with xslt. Would not recommend.

pepa65 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apart from typst, I've used weasyprint.

sixtyj 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

E.g. Pandoc, universal tool…

	▲	dfc 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You will be surprised to learn that pandoc uses latex for generating the PDF. It's barely hidden: https://www.pandoc.org/demo/example33/2.4-creating-a-pdf.htm...
	▲	xigoi 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Doesn’t Pandoc just use LaTeX under the hood?
	▲	__mharrison__ 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Pandoc works with typst too.

chromanoid 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A good XSL-FO impl with docbook or something like that?

smartmic 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

DITA, see my other comment on level up.

henrebotha 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Asciidoctor?

Iwan-Zotow 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Docbook

ReportLab?