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From above old wooden cabinet drawers filled with assorted retro letterpress accessories in printing house

1. Installing Typst, and the Two Characters That Break Every First Document

Typst installed in 2.20 seconds and compiled its first PDF in 90 milliseconds. Then we typed a Markdown heading into it and watched the whole thing fall over.

Sep 22, 20269 min

Detailed macro shot of vintage typewriter typebars, showcasing intricate mechanics.

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4. Typst Beat a LaTeX Engine by 2.5x Warm and 523 Seconds Cold, and We Still Would Not Move Everything

We compiled matched 1,000 section documents in Typst and in LaTeX. Typst took 0.73 seconds, Tectonic took 1.81, and Tectonic's very first run took 523.05. Typst also used 2.8 times the memory doing it.

Sep 22, 20269 min