Typst
rikhuijzer opened this issue · 1 comments
I have published once in The Journal of Open Source Software and remember that it wasn't very easy to get LaTeX working. I'm on an ARM MacOS system and there the docker image required at least 10 GB of RAM and the build was very slow (#30).
I'm currently working on writing my PhD thesis in typst. It has been a great experience. Compilation takes about 100ms compared to the typical multiple seconds that LaTeX takes. Also, I converted my JOSS paper to typst with little effort. Apart from a few minor things, which could often be easily solved by writing some typst code, I have gotten everything to work. Things that I can confirm that are now working, and related to openjournals, are references via BibTeX, page numbers, code examples with syntax highlighting, inclusion of images, setting alternative headers/footers, and tables. These features all work out-of-the-box. No need to install extra dependencies in typst.
Since openjournals is the most cutting edge publisher that I know, especially with regards to open source software, maybe typst could be included as an (alternative) back end for the publishing system? This could make it easier for authors to submit their papers to openjournals.
This is currently not on the roadmap: Typst doesn't support PDF/A yet, but we consider conformance to that archiving standard a requirement.