Missing tutorial: A pleb’s guide to writing in Typst

… for PDF and more

Typst (https://typst.app/) is a content authoring app that let’s you use plain text based markup to generate a well-formed PDF document, its main output at this time of writing is to generate PDF suitable for writing book chapters, journal articles and the like. Let’s take a dive in it.

Typst is free, so to get started, you can sign up and then log in. Once you log in, you will see something like this:

Let’s start with an empty document. The project when loads looks like as follows:

From Left to right and from top to bottom, these are the features:

1. Typst : will take you to a drop down list about Typst
2. File: you can create a new file or upload an existing one. The filetypes can be bibtex files, or image files
3. Edit: If you click it, it will lead to a drop down box as follows: