I recently developed a thing to turn a Conversations chat* into a PDF.

https://codeberg.org/moji/typst-conversations

That story began with a friend of mine that had got a XMPP group chat where they shared updates and pictures of their latest travel adventure. Now chat is rather ephemeral and they wanted to preserve those memories in an easy accessible format that is PDF. And so I put something together.

* actually any chat as long as you can get the raw data in the expected format

I wanted to have a real time preview of my #typst document in #vim. I don't fancy to install a plugin for that. I had the feeling, that this should be easier. And I don't want to overwrite my original file, because I know me and I would mess up and loose stuff. So I came up with this:

autocmd TextChanged,TextChangedI *.typ silent! execute 'write! ' . expand('%:r') . '.watch.' . expand('%:e')

This is an automatic command, that triggers on changed text in normal mode (TextChanged) and insert mode (TextChangedI). It only applies to *.typ files and copies them from filename.typ to filename.watch.typ. The silent! makes sure that the status bar does not show the write every time you edit the buffer.

You can now typst watch filename.watch.typ and open filename.watch.pdf in your PDF viewer. The original filename.typ will not be modified until you save it manually.

After almost a month of procrastination, I finally found time to upgrade!
https://typst.app/blog/2025/typst-0.13

For Follow Friday, here's a list of accounts related to #PDF in the fediverse:
• @TeXUsersGroup –info about #TeXLaTeX and the CTAN package registry
• @context – news and updates from the group behind ConTeXt
• @typst – the makers of #Typst
• @libreoffice – the free and open office, which can also be used to create PDFs
• @speedata – a PDF engine not yet supported by pandoc
• @wtfpdf – “Celebrating the majesty, the mystery, the comedy and the catastrophe of PDFs....mostly the latter two.”

#typst
＞Release Version 0.13.1 (March 7, 2025) · typst/typst
https://github.com/typst/typst/releases/tag/v0.13.1

Add just a little spacing to your em-dashes and prevent them from breaking without the words around them with this show rule one-liner

Original idea and explanation on https://www.flother.is/til/typst-em-dash-show-rule/

Tracking Typst HTML export
https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/5512

Bin gerade auf pdfpc gestoßen.
Das bringt endlich einen vernünftigen Präsentationsmodus für PDFs .
Timer, Notizen, Folienübersicht,... Alles dabei, gibts für alle Plattformen und ist vollständig konfigurierbar.

Notizen können bspw auch direkt in LaTeX/Beamer oder Typst erstellt werden.

Genau das hätte ich schon länger gebraucht. Großartig.

https://pdfpc.github.io/

An integrated language service for Typst
https://github.com/Myriad-Dreamin/tinymist

Two days
Two #typst projects

Today and yesterday I worked on two new typst projects. One is a "Tools-License" for my dad's startup where children can collect stamps for showing correct usage of different woodworking tools. The other one is a flyer in form of a buiseness card recruiting new group leaders for ur local scouts group.

Could have been done with other tools, but typst ist just so nice and I love to work with it and learn on the go.

The results look so satisfyingly professional!

#introduction hi, i'm fsou!

i've finally come around to write a small bio with my interests, hoping to find like-minded people to connect to

my interests mainly lie in:

- ⁨#opensource⁩ ⁨#foss⁩ ⁨#linux⁩ ⁨#voidlinux⁩ ⁨#helix⁩ ⁨#selfhost⁩
- ⁨#physics⁩ ⁨#blackholes⁩ ⁨#math⁩
- ⁨#solarpunk⁩ ⁨#visiblemending⁩
- ⁨#typst⁩
- ⁨#tokipona⁩
- ⁨#dota2⁩
- ⁨#journaling⁩ ⁨#ttrpg⁩
- ⁨#watercolor⁩

rn: trying to graduate and pursue a PhD in ⁨#theoreticalphysics⁩

Hi there,

anybody with #Typst or #LaTeX templates know-how ?

I'd like to replicate the look and feel of this newsletter:
https://attac63.site.attac.org/IMG/pdf/116.pdf

I initially did that with Scribus (replicating an old docx document) but there's a lot of minutiae and it's too mouse oriented for my taste.
Hence the LaTeX/Typst plea for a template.

I have found 2 templates for LaTeX:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/lix-newspaper-class/ktfcrhncpqkr
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/newsletter-template/nzvznvdbdqpl

but they don't seem super customizable.

any pointers to tutorials ?
any #help ?

Today I tried to switch to typist, a pretty new typesetting system made by some young people in Berlin. I am using LaTeX for more than 25 years, one of the purposes I am using it is for so called DIN-letters. I remember that it took me weeks of fiddling to get a proper latex template.

Today I replicated that process with typist in just 2 hours. Amazing!

Even typst watch works very well with Okular.

Highly recommend

#typst #writing #typesetting #latex #opensource

https://github.com/typst/typst

bon OK je vais commencer à regarder https://typst.app/ #latex #typst

This makes Monday almost bearable
https://github.com/cetz-package/cetz
https://github.com/Jollywatt/typst-fletcher

Held a talk about #typst today at my company. I did not expect that much interested, but the pain with #latex seems real. I guess there are a few new typst user, now.