Discussion - Topic: Typst
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This week's topic: Typst
Discussion resources to help guide the conversation will be posted below a few days before the meetup.
Zoom link will be added about 5 min before the event starts.
As described in Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol. #34.
Typst is a markup-based typesetting system positioned as a modern successor to LaTeX for programmatic document generation. It combines high-quality typography with a simpler syntax and a significantly faster compilation pipeline, compiling even very large documents in a fraction of the time required by traditional LaTeX toolchains. Typst offers clearer error messages and built-in scripting capabilities such as conditionals and loops. It can also load structured data from JSON or CSV, making it well suited to automated document generation.
Our teams have used Typst to generate statements and reports for banking and financial services customers where documents must be produced at scale with consistent formatting. The open-source compiler can be self-hosted, and its growing ecosystem includes community-contributed packages. Typst is more approachable than LaTeX while delivering comparable typographic quality.
Discussion Resources :
Typst Tutorial By the Typst Team
https://typst.app/docs/tutorial/
Typst’s Intuitive Syntax: A Comprehensive Tutorial for Beginners By Federico Tartarini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB1zhr-QWjQ
Why I Moved from LaTeX to Typst By Minsoo Choo
https://minsoo.io/p/why-i-moved-from-latex-to-typst
Guide for LaTeX Users By the Typst Team
https://typst.app/docs/guides/guide-for-latex-users/
Typst as a Language By Justin Pombrio
https://justinpombrio.net/2024/11/30/typst.html
Automated PDF Generation with Typst By Martin Haug
https://typst.app/blog/2025/automated-generation/
I Use Typst to Generate PDFs of My Blog By Emil Lindfors
https://lindfors.no/pdf/typst-for-blogging.pdf
TeX and Typst: Layout Models By Laurenz Mädje
https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/layout-models/
Why NETWAYS Has Chosen Typst for Their Course Materials By the NETWAYS Team and the Typst Team
https://typst.app/blog/2025/netways/
Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes By Laurenz Mädje
https://typst.app/blog/2026/typst-0.15/