blog/content/blog/format-comparison/index.md

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• comparison table
• markdown
  • syntax
  • programmability
• typst
  • syntax
  • math
  • programmability
• latex
  • syntax
  • math
  • programmability
• tools
  • pandoc
  • excalidraw
  • diagrams.net

	Markdown	Typst	Latex
Math support	only using latex	great	great with an enormous community behind it
Exportability1	only html is supported	pdf, svg and png are directly supported	pdf is supported
Programmability2	can be programmed via css, js and ts	has many built in features a package store	has so many options, people are using it to write books!

Typst

Math support

Typst has pretty neat Math support like this:

{{image(url="https://files.catbox.moe/ss9oo1.png")}}

$f_a(x)=a \cdot x^2$ and it's derivatives

using this code:

#set page(
  height: auto,
  width: auto,
)

$
f_a (x)&=a dot x^2 \
f_a ' (x)&=2a x\
f_a '' (x)&=2a
$

In Typst we can plot using the cetz library like this:

#import "@preview/cetz:0.2.2"

#cetz.canvas({
  import cetz.draw: *
  import cetz.plot
  plot.plot(size: (10, 4), x-tick-step: 2, y-tick-step: 50, 
    {
      plot.add(domain: (-4, 4),
        x => (x,  calc.pow(x, 4) ),
        label: $f(x)=x^4$
      )
      plot.add(domain: (-5, 6.34),
        x => (x, calc.pow(x, 3)),
        label: $f(x)=x^3$
      )
      plot.add(domain: (-10, 10),
        x => (x, calc.pow(x, 2)),
        label: $f(x) = x^2$
      )
    })
})

Which leads to this:

{{image(url="https://files.catbox.moe/tplzsb.png")}}

some standard functions

Exportability

Typst can be exported to pdf, svg and png directly and many more using pandoc

Programmability

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1. many more are supported using pandoc ↩︎

2. like plotting, etc. ↩︎