Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol 34 put Typst in the Trial ring. It's the modern typesetting language people are jumping to from LaTeX, partly because compile times are milliseconds instead of seconds. The thing that's not obvious from the docs is how much your existing Markdown carries over: Typst's surface syntax is closer to Markdown than to LaTeX. To make that concrete, I wrote a 500-line vanilla JS converter that takes Markdown and prints the Typst equivalent.
Typst-is-Markdown-shaped
What LaTeX writes as \section{Hello} Typst writes as = Hello. \textbf{bold} becomes *bold*. \begin{itemize} \item foo becomes - foo. Roughly 70–80% of a normal README carries over unchanged. That's the angle: not "Typst has nice math" but "your existing prose works."
The tool surfaces this by putting your real Markdown side-by-side with the Typst output. Reading the right pane after pasting the left tells you immediately whether your stack is Typst-ready.
Design — line-oriented + sentinel-and-restore
