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tombert 6 hours ago

I use Typst a lot now (which this reminds me of), and the equation support is generally very good, but the thing that gives me pause is that I'm afraid that there's going to be something missing, or worse than the LaTeX equivalent.

LaTeX has been the industry standard for the mathematical world for decades and as a result it has had the most work adding new notation or making nicer formatting.

For example, I needed to do a proof tree recently. Typically I would use bussproofs in LaTeX but I was using Typst, and while there is a package for handling proof trees in Typst [1], I think they're not very pretty, and as a result I ended up porting the document over to Pandoc markdown and doing the rest of my work there (which is annoying because Typst renders around ~1000x faster and has better tooling).

[1] https://github.com/SkiFire13/typst-prooftree

dadoum 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I remember using curryst for my proof trees (a few months ago) and they looked fine if I recall correctly. But I agree that often using typst means searching for package that may not exist or is not working correctly since the ecosystem is not very mature currently.

tombert 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Hadn't seen curryst. Looking at the examples it looks ok. Maybe I should have used that and stuck with Typst.