Typst Makes Big Strides
Typst, an open-source typesetting system written in Rust, has released version 0.15 with significant new features including variable font support and MathML integration. The system is gaining traction as a modern, efficient alternative to LaTeX for technical documentation.
Why it matters
As a free, high-performance tool, Typst represents a shift in academic and technical publishing workflows toward modern programming languages and flexible design standards.
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This article was contributed by Lee Phillips
Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement. We last looked in on Typst a year ago, when it had reached version 0.13. A new version, 0.15, was released in June with lots of new features , including support for variable fonts, MathML, multiple bibliographies, and more. Typst is free, Apache-2.0-licensed software, programmed in Rust.
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