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March 28, 2023

• Breaking changes:

  • Enumerations now require a space after their marker, that is, [1.ok] must now be written as [1. ok]

  • Changed default style for term lists: Does not include a colon anymore and has a bit more indent

• Command line interface

  • Added --font-path argument for CLI

  • Embedded default fonts in CLI binary

  • Fixed build of CLI if git is not installed

• Miscellaneous improvements

  • Added support for disabling matrix and vector delimiters. Generally with [#set math.mat(delim: none)] or one-off with [$mat(delim: #none, 1, 2; 3, 4)$].

  • Added separator argument to term lists

  • Added round function for equations

  • Numberings now allow zeros. To reset a counter, you can write [#counter(..).update(0)]

  • Added documentation for {page()} and {position()} methods on location type

  • Added symbols for double, triple, and quadruple dot accent

  • Added smart quotes for Norwegian Bokmål

  • Added Nix flake

  • Fixed bibliography ordering in IEEE style

  • Fixed parsing of decimals in math: [$1.2/3.4$]

  • Fixed parsing of unbalanced delimiters in fractions: [$1/(2 (x)$]

  • Fixed unexpected parsing of numbers as enumerations, e.g. in [1.2]

  • Fixed combination of page fill and header

  • Fixed compiler crash if repeat is used in page with automatic width

  • Fixed matrices with explicit delimiter

  • Fixed indent property of term lists

  • Numerous documentation fixes

  • Links in bibliographies are now affected by link styling

  • Fixed hovering over comments in web app

March 21, 2023

• Reference and bibliography management

  • Bibliographies and citations (currently supported styles are APA, Chicago Author Date, IEEE, and MLA)

  • You can now reference sections, figures, formulas, and works from the bibliography with [@label]

  • You can make an element referenceable with a label:

    • [= Introduction <intro>]

    • [$ A = pi r^2 $ <area>]

• Introspection system for interactions between different parts of the document

  • counter function

    • Access and modify counters for pages, headings, figures, and equations

    • Define and use your own custom counters

    • Time travel: Find out what the counter value was or will be at some other point in the document (e.g. when you're building a list of figures, you can determine the value of the figure counter at any given figure).

    • Counters count in layout order and not in code order

  • state function

    • Manage arbitrary state across your document

    • Time travel: Find out the value of your state at any position in the document

    • State is modified in layout order and not in code order

  • query function

    • Find all occurrences of an element or a label, either in the whole document or before/after some location

    • Link to elements, find out their position on the pages and access their fields

    • Example use cases: Custom list of figures or page header with current chapter title

  • locate function

    • Determines the location of itself in the final layout

    • Can be accessed to get the page and x, y coordinates

    • Can be used with counters and state to find out their values at that location

    • Can be used with queries to find elements before or after its location

• New measure function

  • Measure the layouted size of elements

  • To be used in combination with the new style function that lets you generate different content based on the style context something is inserted into (because that affects the measured size of content)

• Exposed content representation

  • Content is not opaque anymore

  • Content can be compared for equality

  • The tree of content elements can be traversed with code

  • Can be observed in hover tooltips or with repr

  • New methods on content: func, has, at, and location

  • All optional fields on elements are now settable

  • More uniform field names (heading.title becomes heading.body, list.items becomes list.children, and a few more changes)

• Further improvements

  • Added figure function

  • Added numbering parameter on equation function

  • Added numbering and number-align parameters on page function

  • The page function's header and footer parameters do not take functions anymore. If you want to customize them based on the page number, use the new numbering parameter or counter function instead.

  • Added footer-descent and header-ascent parameters

  • Better default alignment in header and footer

  • Fixed Arabic vowel placement

  • Fixed PDF font embedding issues

  • Renamed math.formula to math.equation

  • Font family must be a named argument now: [#set text(font: "..")]

  • Added support for hanging indent

  • Renamed paragraph indent to first-line-indent

  • More accurate logarithm when base is 2 or 10

  • Improved some error messages

  • Fixed layout of terms list

• Web app improvements

  • Added template gallery

  • Added buttons to insert headings, equations, raw blocks, and references

  • Jump to the source of something by clicking on it in the preview panel (works for text, equations, images, and more)

  • You can now upload your own fonts and use them in your project

  • Hover debugging and autocompletion now takes multiple files into account and works in show rules

  • Hover tooltips now automatically collapse multiple consecutive equal values

  • The preview now automatically scrolls to the right place when you type

  • Links are now clickable in the preview area

  • Toolbar, preview, and editor can now all be hidden

  • Added autocompletion for raw block language tags

  • Added autocompletion in SVG files

  • New back button instead of four-dots button

  • Lots of bug fixes

February 25, 2023

• Font changes

  • New default font: Linux Libertine

  • New default font for raw blocks: DejaVu Sans Mono

  • New default font for math: Book weight of New Computer Modern Math

  • Lots of new math fonts available

  • Removed Latin Modern fonts in favor of New Computer Modern family

  • Removed unnecessary smallcaps fonts which are already accessible through the corresponding main font and the smallcaps function

• Improved default spacing for headings

• Added panic function

• Added clusters and codepoints methods for strings

• Support for multiple authors in set document

• Fixed crash when string is accessed at a position that is not a char boundary

• Fixed semicolon parsing in [#var ;]

• Fixed incremental parsing when inserting backslash at end of [#"abc"]

• Fixed names of a few font families (including Noto Sans Symbols and New Computer Modern families)

• Fixed autocompletion for font families

• Improved incremental compilation for user-defined functions

February 15, 2023

• Box and block have gained fill, stroke, radius, and inset properties

• Blocks may now be explicitly sized, fixed-height blocks can still break across pages

• Blocks can now be configured to be breakable or not

• Numbering style can now be configured for nested enums

• Markers can now be configured for nested lists

• The eval function now expects code instead of markup and returns an arbitrary value. Markup can still be evaluated by surrounding the string with brackets.

• PDFs generated by Typst now contain XMP metadata

• Link boxes are now disabled in PDF output

• Tables don't produce small empty cells before a pagebreak anymore

• Fixed raw block highlighting bug

February 12, 2023

• Shapes, images, and transformations (move/rotate/scale/repeat) are now block-level. To integrate them into a paragraph, use a box as with other elements.

• A colon is now required in an "everything" show rule: Write {show: it => ..} instead of {show it => ..}. This prevents intermediate states that ruin your whole document.

• Non-math content like a shape or table in a math formula is now centered vertically

• Support for widow and orphan prevention within containers

• Support for RTL in lists, grids, and tables

• Support for explicit {auto} sizing for boxes and shapes

• Support for fractional (i.e. {1fr}) widths for boxes

• Fixed bug where columns jump to next page

• Fixed bug where list items have no leading

• Fixed relative sizing in lists, squares and grid auto columns

• Fixed relative displacement in place function

• Fixed that lines don't have a size

• Fixed bug where {set document(..)} complains about being after content

• Fixed parsing of {not in} operation

• Fixed hover tooltips in math

• Fixed bug where a heading show rule may not contain a pagebreak when an outline is present

• Added baseline property on box

• Added tg and ctg operators in math

• Added delimiter setting for cases function

• Parentheses are now included when accepting a function autocompletion

February 2, 2023

• Merged text and math symbols, renamed a few symbols (including infty to infinity with the alias oo)

• Fixed missing italic mappings

• Math italics correction is now applied properly

• Parentheses now scale in [$zeta(x/2)$]

• Fixed placement of large root index

• Fixed spacing in [$abs(-x)$]

• Fixed inconsistency between text and identifiers in math

• Accents are now ignored when positioning superscripts

• Fixed vertical alignment in matrices

• Fixed text set rule in raw show rule

• Heading and list markers now parse consistently

• Allow arbitrary math directly in content

January 30, 2023

Go to the announcement blog post.

• New expression syntax in markup/math

  • Blocks cannot be directly embedded in markup anymore

  • Like other expressions, they now require a leading hash

  • More expressions available with hash, including literals ([#"string"]) as well as field access and method call without space: [#emoji.face]

• New import syntax

  • [#import "module.typ"] creates binding named module

  • [#import "module.typ": a, b] or [#import "module.typ": *] to import items

  • [#import emoji: face, turtle] to import from already bound module

• New symbol handling

  • Removed symbol notation

  • Symbols are now in modules: {sym}, {emoji}, and {math}

  • Math module also reexports all of {sym}

  • Modified through field access, still order-independent

  • Unknown modifiers are not allowed anymore

  • Support for custom symbol definitions with symbol function

  • Symbols now listed in documentation

• New {math} module

  • Contains all math-related functions

  • Variables and function calls directly in math (without hash) access this module instead of the global scope, but can also access local variables

  • Can be explicitly used in code, e.g. [#set math.vec(delim: "[")]

• Delimiter matching in math

  • Any opening delimiters matches any closing one

  • When matched, they automatically scale

  • To prevent scaling, escape them

  • To forcibly match two delimiters, use lr function

  • Line breaks may occur between matched delimiters

  • Delimiters may also be unbalanced

  • You can also use the lr function to scale the brackets (or just one bracket) to a specific size manually

• Multi-line math with alignment

  • The \ character inserts a line break

  • The & character defines an alignment point

  • Alignment points also work for underbraces, vectors, cases, and matrices

  • Multiple alignment points are supported

• More capable math function calls

  • Function calls directly in math can now take code expressions with hash

  • They can now also take named arguments

  • Within math function calls, semicolons turn preceding arguments to arrays to support matrices: [$mat(1, 2; 3, 4)$]

• Arbitrary content in math

  • Text, images, and other arbitrary content can now be embedded in math

  • Math now also supports font fallback to support e.g. CJK and emoji

• More math features

  • New text operators: op function, lim, max, etc.

  • New matrix function: mat

  • New n-ary roots with root function: [$root(3, x)$]

  • New under- and overbraces, -brackets, and -lines

  • New abs and norm functions

  • New shorthands: [|, |], and ||

  • New attach function, overridable attachments with script and limit

  • Manual spacing in math, with h, thin, med, thick and quad

  • Symbols and other content may now be used like a function, e.g. [$zeta(x)$]

  • Added Fira Math font, removed Noto Sans Math font

  • Support for alternative math fonts through [#show math.formula: set text("Fira Math")]

• More library improvements

  • New calc module, abs, min, max, even, odd and mod moved there

  • New message argument on {assert} function

  • The pairs method on dictionaries now returns an array of length-2 arrays instead of taking a closure

  • The method call {dict.at("key")} now always fails if "key" doesn't exist Previously, it was allowed in assignments. Alternatives are {dict.key = x} and {dict.insert("key", x)}.

• Smarter editor functionality

  • Autocompletion for local variables

  • Autocompletion for methods available on a value

  • Autocompletion for symbols and modules

  • Autocompletion for imports

  • Hover over an identifier to see its value(s)

• Further editor improvements

  • New Font menu with previews

  • Single projects may now be shared with share links

  • New dashboard experience if projects are shared with you

  • Keyboard Shortcuts are now listed in the menus and there are more of them

  • New Offline indicator

  • Tooltips for all buttons

  • Improved account protection

  • Moved Status indicator into the error list button

• Further fixes

  • Multiple bug fixes for incremental parser

  • Fixed closure parameter capturing

  • Fixed tons of math bugs

  • Bugfixes for performance, file management, editing reliability

  • Added redirection to the page originally navigated to after signin