Motivation
In this series of blog posts, I just want to give users a tiny introduction to get their basic setup for a typesetting software running. In this episode, I am introducing typst; a very modern digital typesetting software.
Basic facts about typst
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typst came to my attention in 2022, when these master theses got finished: “Fast Typesetting with Incremental Compilation“ by Martin Haug (2022) and “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting” by Laurenz Mädje (2022)
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the team joined a startup incubator at TU Berlin to found Typst GmbH
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the community formed immediately on a Discord server and was watching every step. The need for a new software in the academic space is huge and typst showed up as promising solution
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the source code got open sourced on 2023-03-21 on github under the Apache 2 license
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considering the github organization, Ana Gelez joined as well. In general, typst receives many open source contributions including NLnet funded projects
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according to the github repository, the first code was written on 2019-02-10. The current version 0.13.1 was released on 2025-03-07.
Getting started
various (Linux), Homebrew (macOS), winget (Windows) → also pre-built binaries on github