This is exciting, as I've been waiting for something like this to come along as I'm typesetting an RPG book with LaTeX, and they generally have rather complex layouts:

Random example:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Calculating stat-blocks by hand is a nighmtare for one author, so I need a typesetting language so I can type `\elf`, and have a random elf, then generate all its derived stats correctly (like Attack, Defence, et c.).

My example: https://i.redd.it/ng82unzqxru41.png

Each book has different versions (minimal/ full) so getting reliable output has been a bit of a chore.

LaTeX is the only tool I know which can do the job, but it's still a bit of a nightmare at time. Ugly formatting means my code looks whacky, images can't float cleanly around a multicolumn environment, packages conflict, words overlap and it needs constant hand-holding.

Typst looks like just what I've been after - something like rmarkdown, with more power. Tables and layouts, and best of all - no packages.

What licence is typst under?

Will it be able to reference page numbers from a different book dynamically? (so if book-a and book-b are in the same directory, one can reference another's sections)

Will there be support for intelligent floating images?

Will it accept 'every-page' commands, so I can use that #rect command to show a chapter's name on side-tabs?

Will error messages tell me hbox underfull badness 10000 at least 3000 times per compile?

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