Comments on Typst
I saw this post in r/LaTeX
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I have been spending the last week trying to get my mind around Typst. It has a number of problems.
Syntax varies depending on where you put the statement. Sometimes you put a # in front of a statement, sometimes not. Sometimes a space after a keyword is significant, sometimes it isn't.
A variable value is not imported when it is part of an imported file, but it is when it is part of a package.
Pandoc will not work on a file that has any imported packages in @/preview.
Typst will only export to PDF.
Typst is very slow when working with a large, multi-file document. One of my tests is to see how well it copes with the text of "Origin of the Species", a 400-page document. Typst is no faster than LaTeX when compiling that.
Is this true?
Is it reasonable to assume that Typst is only practical for documents that you write for yourself, for your own purposes, and that having only PDF documents as an output is acceptable? i.e., no DOCX, no ODT, no ePub, etc, etc.