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Scripting

• Plugins (thanks to https://github.com/astrale-sharp and https://github.com/arnaudgolfouse)

  • Typst can now load plugins that are compiled to WebAssembly

  • Anything that can be compiled to WebAssembly can thus be loaded as a plugin

  • These plugins are fully encapsulated (no access to file system or network)

  • Plugins can be shipped as part of packages

  • Plugins work just the same in the web app

• Types are now first-class values (Breaking change)

  • A type is now itself a value

  • Some types can be called like functions (those that have a constructor), e.g. int and str

  • Type checks are now of the form {type(10) == int} instead of the old {type(10) == "integer"}. Compatibility with the old way will remain for a while to give package authors time to upgrade, but it will be removed at some point.

  • Methods are now syntax sugar for calling a function scoped to a type, meaning that {"hello".len()} is equivalent to {str.len("hello")}

• Added support for import renaming with as

• Added a duration type

• Added support for CBOR encoding and decoding

• Added encoding and decoding functions from and to bytes for data formats: json.decode, json.encode, and similar functions for other formats

• Added array.intersperse function

• Added str.rev function

• Added calc.tau constant

• Made bytes joinable and addable

• Made array.zip function variadic

• Fixed bug with eval when the mode was set to {"math"}

• Fixed bug with ends-with function on strings

• Fixed bug with destructuring in combination with break, continue, and return

• Fixed argument types of hyperbolic functions, they don't allow angles anymore (Breaking change)

• Renamed some color methods: rgba becomes to-rgba, cmyk becomes to-cmyk, and luma becomes to-luma (Breaking change)

Export

• Added SVG export (thanks to https://github.com/Enter-tainer)

• Fixed bugs with PDF font embedding

• Added support for page labels that reflect the page numbering style in the PDF

Text and Layout

• Added highlight function for highlighting text with a background color

• Added polygon.regular function for drawing a regular polygon

• Added support for tabs in raw elements alongside tab-width parameter

• The layout engine now tries to prevent "runts" (final lines consisting of just a single word)

• Added Finnish translations

• Added hyphenation support for Polish

• Improved handling of consecutive smart quotes of different kinds

• Fixed vertical alignments for number-align argument on page function (Breaking change)

• Fixed weak pagebreaks after counter updates

• Fixed missing text in SVG when the text font is set to "New Computer Modern"

• Fixed translations for Chinese

• Fixed crash for empty text in show rule

• Fixed leading spaces when there's a linebreak after a number and a comma

• Fixed placement of floating elements in columns and other containers

• Fixed sizing of block containing just a single box

Math

• Added support for augmented matrices

• Removed support for automatic matching of fences like | and || as there were too many false positives. You can use functions like abs or norm or an explicit lr call instead. (Breaking change)

• Fixed spacing after number with decimal point in math

• Fixed bug with primes in subscript

• Fixed weak spacing

• Fixed crash when text within math contains a newline

Tooling and Diagnostics

• Added hints when trying to call a function stored in a dictionary without extra parentheses

• Fixed hint when referencing an equation without numbering

• Added more details to some diagnostics (e.g. when SVG decoding fails)

Command line interface

• Added typst update command for self-updating the CLI (thanks to https://github.com/jimvdl)

• Added download progress indicator for packages and updates

• Added --format argument to explicitly specify the output format

• The CLI now respects proxy configuration through environment variables and has a new --cert option for setting a custom CA certificate

• Fixed crash when field wasn't present and --one is passed to typst query

Miscellaneous Improvements

• Added Page Setup Guide

• Added figure.caption function that can be used for simpler figure customization (Breaking change because it.caption now renders the full caption with supplement in figure show rules and manual outlines)

• Moved caption-pos argument to figure.caption function and renamed it to position (Breaking change)

• Added separator argument to figure.caption function

• Added support for combination of and/or and before/after selectors

• Packages can now specify a minimum compiler version they require to work

• Fixed parser bug where method calls could be moved onto their own line for [#let] expressions in markup (Breaking change)

• Fixed bugs in sentence and title case conversion for bibliographies

• Fixed supplements for alphanumeric and author-title bibliography styles

• Fixed off-by-one error in APA bibliography style

Development

• Made Span and FileId more type-safe so that all error conditions must be handled by World implementors