Typst for Beginners

Typst Introduction

Installation

See Open Source Downloads

• Linux: use the package manager (normally typst package). Otherwise install Rust and cargo (Arch Linux Wiki, Ubuntu Users (Deutsch)), then install the typst-cli package: cargo install --locked typst-cli
• macOS: same as Linux, or just use the Homebrew Formula
• Windows: see Open Source, add the exe to %PATH%

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How to?

See the official tutorial

For LaTeX People

Math becomes much simpler :) Symbol Reference helps a ton here.

And read the Guide for LaTeX Users.

For math conversion, see tex2typst Web App.

Instant Preview

Compared to LaTeX, one can instantly preview the output PDF file edits (even on older hardware!):

typst watch document.typ

Then use your favorite PDF viewer (zathura, MuPDF, etc.).

Hello World Template

#let project(
  author: "",
  title: "",
  font-size: 12pt,
  body,
) = {
  // set generic document metadata
  set document(author: author, title: title)
  // Margin of 20mm on all 4 sides, A4 format (width * height -> 210 mm * 297 mm)
  set page(margin: 20mm, paper: "a4")
  // Set de-AT (German, Austria) language hint
  set text(font: "Noto Sans", size: font-size, lang: "de", region: "at")

  // special argument name - everything else is inserted here (in our case, hello world)
  body
}

#show: project.with(
  author: "Ottakringer Drinker",
  title: "My first document",
)

= Die Überschrift, Niveau 1

Hallo Welt! Ich spreche österreichisch.

Of course, one can create a project.typ file with the project definition, and then import it like this (if same directory):

#import "./project.typ": project

#show: project.with(
 /* multi
    line
 */
 // same arguments follow...
)

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