Typst editor ?

mononym

Hello! I'm currently working on a large document for which I'm using Typst instead of Markdown. This makes me wonder if any of you use Typst as well and have an offline setup/workflow for long-form writing.

I first tried writing in Markdown in Zettlr, setting up a custom script that triggers a conversion from Markdown to Typst and then compiles a PDF when the file is modified. This became quite sophisticated (I can provide more information for those who are interested), but due to images and the need for citations, it became too cumbersome. Writing works best without these kinds of distractions.

So I was thinking of making use of an IDE (there's Tinymist, a Typst LSP). I started with Zed, as I already use it for coding. However, my global settings and preferences are not really compatible for code and text.

I'm currently looking into using Kate, but maybe you know any other options?

P.S. I'm a bit sad about moving away from Zettlr. I guess I'll end up taking notes in Zettlr and writing in Typst. I have no idea if it's worth discussing whether Zettlr could support typst (integrate Tinymist ?).

hendrik

First of all, don’t be sad if Zettlr no longer suits your needs. I‘d hope to retain you as a user, however. I don’t know whether Typst will become a standalone part of Zettlr very soon, but given that it is supposed to be a modern LaTeX replacement and Zettlr natively supports TeX files already, there is some chance that we can make it work (although, again, it will take time).

A first step would be a typst parser for CodeMirror. Once that exists, everything else requires literally 10-15 lines of code, or something like that.

mononym

Thanks for the answers !

hendrik OK, I see. So it's not about having a Typst language server. Or maybe the language servers are a component of CodeMirror ? While looking into Typst editors, I came across this atulyak123/Typst-WebAssembly making use of CodeMirror.

jgsw_ Great tip. I never had a look into Quarto. I'll keep it in mind for forthcoming projects. Especially when more data processing/coding is involved.

In the end, I use the Zed editor for writing in Typst. With the task settings I set up a switch between a "code mode" and a "write mode". Very much DIY :

[
  {
    "label": "Switch to write mode",
    "command": "jq '.theme = \"One Light\" | .buffer_font_family = \"iA Writer Quattro V\" | .buffer_font_size = 20' ~/.config/zed/settings.json > /tmp/tmp.json && mv /tmp/tmp.json ~/.config/zed/settings.json",
    "use_new_terminal": false,
    "reveal": "never",
    "shell": "system",
    "hide": "always"
  },
  {
    "label": "Switch to code mode",
    "command": "jq '.theme = \"One Dark\" | .buffer_font_family = \"Zed Plex Mono\" | .buffer_font_size = 17' ~/.config/zed/settings.json > /tmp/tmp.json && mv /tmp/tmp.json ~/.config/zed/settings.json",
    "use_new_terminal": false,
    "reveal": "never",
    "shell": "system",
    "hide": "always"
  }
]

jgsw_

Zettlr plus Quarto might be able to do what you want. This would allow you to continue writing in Zettlr with markdown, but give you a more sophisticated approach to Typst exports than Zettlr plus pandoc allows.

Quarto is built on top of pandoc, but Quarto has fixed the problems pandoc has with citations in Typst. While you may still have some difficulties with automatic image sizing, Quarto allows you to easily specify image size, which will allow you to get the desired effect without too much difficulty. (https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst.html)

Quarto can automatically update a preview on save - and so for the file you're working on you could just type via the terminal:

quarto preview myfile.md

And it should then do what you want.