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Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs
I recently responded to someone on Mastodon who asked about producing decent-looking PDFs from markdown. I replied eagerly with “OMG Typst!” and linked to my earlier blogpost about developing an entire book layout template for Pandoc and Typst.
These days I find EPUB pretty uninteresting, but I’m still using Pandoc for a variety of purposes, and especially using it to drive PDF (that is, “print”) production via Typst. It was designed to replace LaTeX, which has been the standard way of producing scientific publications for decades(in the niche where InDesign and Desktop Publishing apps fall down because of complex equation formatting). But where LaTeX is weird, old, and arcane, Typst was designed as a modern, streamlined tool to produce excellent typography through templated pages.
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