Typist

Why?

I struggle with moving from html documents to PDF. I love Pagedown but every year I feel like there is more prayer than skill to generate a PDF document. I can’t quite get the tables I want in pagedown.

I am determined to use Typis this year.

Typist seems great but is not a plug and play system–a lot of configuration is required.

This blog post is a very sold starting point.

https://rfortherestofus.com/2025/11/quarto-typst-pdf


title: Fancy Title date: November 2025 format: typst: template-partials: - typst-show.typ - typst-template.typ

The show file provides the detail–what will the headings look like whereas the template file layout the structure of the document.

https://claude.ai/share/35238772-4b09-4912-8c63-95db76921d79


Resouces

Documentation: Typist in Quarto


Videos:

R For The Rest Of Us Tutorial

Live Stream


Extensions

  • Tinymist Typst

  • vscod-PDF