TYPST: A new markup + page layout engine to take on LaTeX

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A really cool Pandoc 3.2 release means a nice way to generat Typst properties. This was contributed by the Typst guys as they want to take some HTML+CSS like:

<p>Here is some <span style="color:orange">orange text</span>.</p>

To generate the equivalent Typst properties:

Here is some #text(fill: orange)[orange text].

Documentation:

jgm/pandoc/blob/main/doc/typst-property-output.md

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In another thread on making an index, I made a filter that supports a nice indexing engine for Typst (in-dexter), the output works well from Scrivener ⇨ Typst:

Making an index?

I’ve created a Pandoc filter that basically does what @AmberV’s compile replacements do for ODT, but with the added flexibility of supporting Typst + ODT + DOCX + LaTeX. It depends on the same two styles AmberV specifies: Index Key and Index Term — these should get compiled to \index{ancestor!parent!keyword} and \indext{ancestor!parent!keyword} (you need to wire these up in your compile format); the ancestor and parent are optional. The difference between \index and \indext are based on whether …

Styles in Scrivener:

Index in Typst: