Typst equivalent hfill and vfill? | Typst | Page 1

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 1:57 AM

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What is the preferred Typst method for this LaTeX behavior: bob \hfill tom?

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 1:57 AM

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#h(1fr)
#v(1fr)

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if you mean space

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 1:57 AM

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Yes. Fill horizontal space, so that "bob" is left-aligned and "tom" is right-aligned.

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 1:57 AM

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yeah

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thats the one

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 1:58 AM

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awesome! thanks! i didn't realize the fractions worked like that.

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 1:58 AM

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they basically divide the remaining space

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among themselves

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but

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for h, box, v, it's just one element, only one "column"

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so in practice 1fr just divides the remaining space by 1

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 1:59 AM

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ok, how would this work in a grid with 2 columns and 2 rows?

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hm. is there a proper way to format code on discord?

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 1:59 AM

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well, in that case you're better off using #align(left) and #align(right) on the individual cells

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 1:59 AM

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graceful arch hm. is there a proper way to format code on discord?

the same as in typst

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```
stuff
```

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 1:59 AM

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ah, code fences

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ok

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grid(
    columns: 2,
    rows: 2,
    column-gutter: 0.3cm,
    row-gutter: 0.2cm,
    text(size: 10pt)[
      text-cell-1, 
      align(right, text-cell2),
      text-cell-3,
      text-cell-4
    ]
  )

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i don't think the grid recognizes these as separate cells

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:01 AM

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yeah

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in fact the align etc you wrote has no effect

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cuz [ ] is content

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so it's like writing literally into the document

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{ } is for code

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so that's a step

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but also

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you're still wrapping everything in a single text

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:02 AM

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yeah, i thought so, is there a way to use "set" in a grid context?

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:02 AM

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so grid only receives one argument

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which is that text

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:03 AM

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graceful arch yeah, i thought so, is there a way to use "set" in a grid context?

you can do this:

#[
  #set text(10pt)
  #grid(...)
]```

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that will restrict the set to that scope

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:03 AM

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ok, that makes sense! thanks for being so helpful!

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what's the preferred way to pass each "text-cell-1" separately to grid?

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:04 AM

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graceful arch what's the preferred way to pass each "text-cell-1" separately to grid?

arguments

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:04 AM

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just to be clear, i did check the docs for grid(), but it wasn't obvious to me

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:05 AM

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?render

#grid(columns: 2,
      [hey],
      [bye],
      [ok]
)

slim perchBOT Jun 10, 2023, 2:05 AM

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tired talon ?render ``` #grid(columns: 2, [hey], [bye], [ok] ) ```

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:06 AM

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interesting, so square brackets signal arguments in grid

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:06 AM

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no

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they signal content

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that's their only purpose

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note that it's not loading the value from the variable hey

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it's writing "hey"

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it's like using "hey" to indicate a string

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except that [hey] has markup

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e.g. [*hey*] produces bold

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and [#grid(...)] produces a grid

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the thing here is that they are arguments to the grid function

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separated by commas

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when you wrote the text()[ ... ] there, only the text() was passed to the grid

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:07 AM

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that makes sense

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:07 AM

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because the other things you wrote were arguments to text

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:07 AM

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right

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:08 AM

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well , in the way they were written, they were literal text(due to being in [ ... ]), but even if fixed it still wouldnt have worked cuz of that

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:08 AM

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so, the square brackets are keeping the text grouped, so grid knows to send each group to each grid cell

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:08 AM

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well

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:08 AM

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ha

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:08 AM

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if by grouped you mean like stored or something

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then i guess so yeah

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:08 AM

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don't kill me, i just learned about this language like 2 hours ago

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:09 AM

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dont worry

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lol

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:09 AM

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ha, ok, thanks for your help!

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:09 AM

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no prob 👍

graceful arch Jun 10, 2023, 2:09 AM

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this is such a breath of fresh air compared to latex!

tired talon Jun 10, 2023, 2:09 AM

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yeah lol I assure you the syntax would have been much uglier

naive talon Jun 29, 2023, 7:05 PM

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I went looking for exactly this (\hfill) and didn't know about the fr fraction unit type. Would be nice if searching for \hfill yielded this page: https://typst.app/docs/reference/types/fraction

Typst

Fraction Type – Typst Documentation

Documentation for the fraction type.

tired talon Jun 29, 2023, 7:33 PM

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naive talon I went looking for exactly this (`\hfill`) and didn't know about the `fr` fracti...

Maybe could be added to the LaTeX guide too

naive talon Jun 29, 2023, 7:36 PM

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I thought about opening a PR but I'm not sure where exactly this information should go. The guide seems pretty top-level and this is arguably a niche thing. https://typst.app/docs/guides/guide-for-latex-users/

Typst

Guide for LaTeX users – Typst Documentation

Are you a LaTeX user? This guide explains the differences and
similarities between Typst and LaTeX so you can get started quickly.

tired talon Jun 29, 2023, 7:38 PM

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I think there could be some sort of “other commands” section

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With things like this

naive talon Jun 29, 2023, 7:39 PM

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Good idea. Is there anything else that comes to mind? (i.e. other misc commands)

tired talon Jun 29, 2023, 7:58 PM

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oh

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i just realized \vfill shows up

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at the very end of the guide

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but yeah it's a bit hidden in a larger paragraph

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lol

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definitely could use some table for that

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it also shows up with pagebreak so maybe pagebreak could be one such command

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maybe linebreaks too ( \\ -> \)

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stuff like that

naive talon Jun 29, 2023, 8:03 PM

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I was just thinking about \\ and linebreak(). The guide still lists "no package manager available" so maybe I'll draft a micro-PR and we can fix also the other issues with the current doc page.

tired talon Jun 29, 2023, 8:04 PM

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yeah sure, although i guess the guide is technically still correct about that :p

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so let's see, maybe they will update it when v0.6.0 releases

slim bloom Jul 2, 2023, 4:50 PM

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tired talon so let's see, maybe they will update it when v0.6.0 releases

uhh, that didn't age well

#Typst equivalent hfill and vfill?