Of course, you can create coffee stains in HTML as well, but it's not something you can do in Markdown.
Blood. That's blood.
As for Latex vs Typst, as a language Typst is much better, compiles very quickly, and has sane error messages. However, Typst still has a few rough edges, and can't do everything you can with Latex + packages (yet).
I've been using Typst for most of my documents for a few months and I've been generally happy with it.
There is a very prominent web site that offers a hosted version without much clarity about the fact that you can run it yourself. The hosted version offers collaborative editing similar to what Overleaf provides which is incredibly useful.
See https://github.com/typst/typst for the CLI version
There is a page with pre-compiled binaries as well and on Macs, you can install using homebrew.
I find the syntax to Typst to be generally better than LaTeX. I don't like its equations as much, but Typst has one huge advantage that makes it easier to forgive its faults: it compiles several orders of magnitude faster than LaTeX. This might not sound like much but it honestly sort of changes how you even think about problems. I keep Neovim open on the left, run `typst watch` in the background, and Evince on the right, and my updates show up immediately upon saving.
Also, adding plugins and libraries is trivial. All you have to do is declare it at the top of the file and it will automatically fetch it, which is considerably easier than LaTeX.
I don't like the default font it ships with, but it's easy enough to add a Latin Modern font and get something that looks like LaTeX.
Before Typst, I had typically been using Pandoc with Markdown to write my documents, and that served me well for quite awhile, but it had the disadvantage of being extremely slow to compile. A slide deck that I gave last year [1] would take a bit more than a minute to compile. This became an issue because I had to make a few small last-minute changes and having to wait an entire minute to view them actually made it so I was really pushing against the wire.
If I had done my slides in Typst, they would have compiled in about 40 milliseconds, they wouldn't have looked any worse, and I'd have a syntax not dissimilar to Markdown. I'm pretty much a convert at this point.
What the core lacks is the web service that offers e.g. collaborative editing.
Or install it using vscode's extensions, or install it for neovim using mason. That's a few commonly used distribution paths.
Go for it!
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=hanno-rein.de and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39316193
This also reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30024165
Underappreciated IMHO. You can version control it, no dealing with wild Word shenanigans. Totally deterministic. Just find a style, insert your bullets and you have a nice sharable PDF.
Nowadays you can even have your preferred LLM do the conversion for you. LaTeX is finicky and I've had it fix warnings in mine that I couldn't be bothered to.
Good stuff, highly recommend a LaTeX resume, whether or not you drink coffee.
Diet soda sometimes works, but often isn't provided as easily.
Good times.
Unfortunately the challenge was a bit too hard and went unsolved during the competition.
I like the author's note about the license: "As we do not believe in imaginary property, this package belongs to the public domain."
I think it's much more common to see a Creative Commons license on this sort of thing.
* tea strains
* bread crumbles (squashed among paper leaves)
* tomato sauce drops
* hair
> A lot of time can be saved by printing [extra stuff] directly on the page rather than adding them manually!
IBM mainframes used to come with documentation in ring binders. Some pages might indeed be marked “This page intentionally blank”. And they would from time to time send out update packages to their customers, with instructions to replace pages so-and-so with the included replacements. On the replacement pages, text that had been altered would be marked with a change bar in the margin.
Lo and behold, one day an update package was received, replacing one completely blank page with one bearing the text “This page intentionally blank”. Complete with a change bar in the margin.
