#Typst to submit a paper to a real conference or journal?

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full silo
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Has anyone used Typst to submit a paper to a conference or journal yet? What was your experience like? I'd like to hear your thoughts about the following points:

  • how did you convince your co-authors to use typst?
  • did you have trouble have the conference or journal submission mgmt suystem to accept the format of your submission? (particularly when submitting the camera-ready, at which point you are typically required to also provide "the sources")
  • what LaTeX functionality (packages) did you miss the most (if any ;-))?
  • what are the key issues that might prevent you from adopting Typst for your next paper submission?

Thanks!

fathom sequoia
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Keep in mind that it has been open sourced a week ago so I doubt anyone's already submitted a paper with that 😄 but who knows

full silo
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you are right, the question will remain valid for the future too 🙂 maybe, for now it can be modified as: "what are the key issues that might prevent you from adopting Typst for your next paper submission?"
(note: i edited my first post)

modern plank
stiff mural
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I have been converting a conference paper of ours (submitted to Neurips) into typst to see how far off it is from doing this. The short conclusion is its not ready yet, and the hurdles are non-trivial, but it seems like it'll get there. My issues have been:

  • Lack of low-profile math (\textstyle in latex) to make math in text look nice (I don't know if this is being worked on)
  • Not being able to reference things like tables (this is being worked on)
  • No floating elements, so fig placement is odd, and you can't break 2-column mode etc to get full-width figures
  • Footnote support is not there - footer sizing is static and so putting footnotes in there overflows. I believe there are 2 types of footer, things like page number etc that are fixed, and variable amount ones like footnotes that need variable sizing (I believe this is being worked on)
  • Table styling is not pretty (I don't think this is being worked on)
  • some generic typesetting issues that make for weirdly formatted text, esp. after inline math. (I remember someone mentioning math typsetting is on the todo, but not this specific issue)
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(Happy to share this if anyone in interested)

near raft
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Thank you @stiff mural that's valuable real life feedback 🙂

rare wren
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full silo
blazing lynx
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I know this question is a couple of months old, but having discovered Typst today it is the one big question I had! Typst looks really promising but I can't see how I would be able to submit to a journal using it yet 😦

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Thinking out loud: If Typst could compile to .docx instead of PDF that would solve the submission problem (I have no idea how feasible that is)

stoic sonnet
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I just submitted a paper to an IEEE conference, all written in typst. I had to play with the IEE template to comply with the conf style (but nothing too bad). The biggest problems were:

  • Floating figures: not being able to place a figure across two collumns is really anoying.
  • The basics of styling that typsts does not handle yet like moving a section title to the next page if there is no room for text on the same page.
  • The lack of PDF support for figures. Using SVG is not so bad but its a pain to convert all figures back to svg.

Until the paper gets rejected for not complying with the format, I'd say its possible. Not as practical as latex yet (maily because of the lack of "official" templates), but possible.

blazing lynx
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I can see that anywhere that allows a PDF submission is fine. But as mentioned above journals generally expect a "source" file for final submission, and sadly I don't see them supporting Typst sources for a loooooong time. My field's main journal barely supports Latex, they are Word centric 😔

long lynx
clever stag
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(at least I think you can, I haven't used it personally)

pastel charm
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I guess humanities use docx?

pastel charm
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