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Breaking changes

• When using the CLI, you now have to use subcommands:

  • typst compile file.typ or typst c file.typ to create a PDF

  • typst watch file.typ or typst w file.typ to compile and watch

  • typst fonts to list all fonts

• Manual counters now start at zero. Read the "How to step" section here for more details

• The bibliography styles {"author-date"} and {"author-title"} were renamed to {"chicago-author-date"} and {"chicago-author-title"}

Figure improvements

• Figures now automatically detect their content and adapt their behavior. Figures containing tables, for instance, are automatically prefixed with "Table X" and have a separate counter

• The figure's supplement (e.g. "Figure" or "Table") can now be customized

• In addition, figures can now be completely customized because the show rule gives access to the automatically resolved kind, supplement, and counter

Bibliography improvements

• The bibliography now also accepts multiple bibliography paths (as an array)

• Parsing of BibLaTeX files is now more permissive (accepts non-numeric edition, pages, volumes, dates, and Jabref-style comments; fixed abbreviation parsing)

• Labels and references can now include : and . except at the end

• Fixed APA bibliography ordering

Drawing additions

• Added polygon function for drawing polygons

• Added support for clipping in boxes and blocks

Command line interface

• Now returns with non-zero status code if there is an error

• Now watches the root directory instead of the current one

• Now puts the PDF file next to input file by default

• Now accepts more kinds of input files (e.g. /dev/stdin)

• Added --open flag to directly open the PDF

Miscellaneous improvements

• Added yaml function to load data from YAML files

• Added basic i18n for a few more languages (IT, RU, ZH, FR, PT)

• Added numbering support for Hebrew

• Added support for integers with base 2, 8, and 16

• Added symbols for double bracket and laplace operator

• The link function now accepts labels

• The link syntax now allows more characters

• Improved justification of Japanese and Chinese text

• Calculation functions behave more consistently w.r.t to non-real results

• Replaced deprecated angle brackets

• Reduced maximum function call depth from 256 to 64

• Fixed first-line-indent being not applied when a paragraph starts with styled text

• Fixed extraneous spacing in unary operators in equations

• Fixed block spacing, e.g. in {block(above: 1cm, below: 1cm, ..)}

• Fixed styling of text operators in math

• Fixed invalid parsing of language tag in raw block with a single backtick

• Fixed bugs with displaying counters and state

• Fixed crash related to page counter

• Fixed crash when symbol function was called without arguments

• Fixed crash in bibliography generation

• Fixed access to label of certain content elements

• Fixed line number in error message for CSV parsing

• Fixed invalid autocompletion after certain markup elements