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Building the new hypermedia systems
Clickbait title: Can you write a bestselling book in Typst? A shiny new edition of Hypermedia Systems is out! Apart from incorporating typo and grammar fixes sent in by readers, the book was completely redesigned inside with a new layout. To achieve a much higher fidelity of design, we ported the book to Typst — the hot new LaTeX replacement.
asciidoctor-web-pdf is a tool that wraps this workflow in a usable package, combined with Paged.js to polyfill the many features of CSS for print media that browsers don’t support. Enthralled by its combination of quality typesetting, lightweight markup and an ergonomic scripting language tightly integrated, I knew that if I was ever part of another book project, I would use Typst. Using a capable typesetting system instead of Print to PDF meant I could tweak almost every aspect of the book’s design, and the software would actually cooperate.
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