Typst is a very young but very promising markup language with use-cases similar to LaTeX. One big objective advantage of typst over LaTeX is compilation speed.

For that reason alone, it would be nice to be able to export org to PDF through typst.

Does anyone have a fledgling ox-typst implementation (open to contributions)?

  • mmaug@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For reference https://github.com/typst/typst

    Looking quickly at the spec, I don't think much of the typst functionality would be used by an org exporter.

    If you are interested in such an exporter, I'd recommend you put together a description of the mappings that you'd like to see. That is, what org features do you need and how does that translate into a typst feature; I'm not asking for an implementation, just guidance on the scope of a first-pass at the exporter. That will give someone with the technical skills to implement an org exporter guidance as to what features to focus on.

  • lispweaver@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hey! Yes, I have started working on one in July. I have also been working on documentation for org-export, because right now it simply doesn’t exist. No, reading org-element code is not documentation, and it’s not even “self-documentation”, because I had to read the code itself and not the automatically generated documentation that appears when I use `C-h f`, since the actual docstrings are templated garbage. So yeah, but I don’t think I’ll be finishing it any time soon. I may upload it to github if you need it though.