I recently developed a thing to turn a Conversations chat* into a PDF.

codeberg.org/moji/typst-conver…

That story began with a friend of mine that had got a XMPP group chat where they shared updates and pictures of their latest travel adventure. Now chat is rather ephemeral and they wanted to preserve those memories in an easy accessible format that is PDF. And so I put something together.

* actually any chat as long as you can get the raw data in the expected format

#typst #conversations #chat #pdf #xmpp

typst-conversations

A parametrized Typst document to visualize a chat conversation with text and image messages — closely matching the design of Conversations.

^Codeberg.org

I'm interested in experimenting with Typst. There's a sample document that I would like to convert to Typst: title, author's name, table of contents, numbered sections, paragraphs and lists are most of the elements.

Is there a template that I should use, similar to the LaTeX article class? I've reviewd Typst templates on GitHub, but I haven't found one suitable for such a basic document.

My plan is to use someone else's typographic design so that I can concentrate on the content, leaving formatting decisions to the designers. As an author who happens to be blind, I find it convenient when someone else takes care of presentational details.

Support for HTML output is available as a "preview" currently, but it is likely to improve in later releases. My intention is to produce both HTML and PDF from the same source. If Typst continues to mature rapidly, I'll probably write research papers in it also.
#Typst #MarkupLanguage

I don't know what's more astonishing: the new typesetting language José Reyes explains here, or the depth and quality of the explanation.

blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst/

#typst #latex