--- title: Earlier description: Changes in early, unversioned Typst --- # Changes in early, unversioned Typst ## 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]($terms): Does not include a colon anymore and has a bit more indent - Command line interface - Added `--font-path` argument for CLI - Embedded default fonts in CLI binary - Fixed build of CLI if `git` is not installed - Miscellaneous improvements - Added support for disabling [matrix]($math.mat) and [vector]($math.vec) delimiters. Generally with `[#set math.mat(delim: none)]` or one-off with `[$mat(delim: #none, 1, 2; 3, 4)$]`. - Added [`separator`]($terms.separator) argument to term lists - Added [`round`]($math.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]($math.mat) with explicit delimiter - Fixed [`indent`]($terms.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]($bibliography) and [citations]($cite) (currently supported styles are APA, Chicago Author Date, IEEE, and MLA) - You can now [reference]($ref) sections, figures, formulas, and works from the bibliography with `[@label]` - You can make an element referenceable with a label: - `[= Introduction ]` - `[$ A = pi r^2 $ ]` - 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]($content) on content: `func`, `has`, `at`, and `location` - All optional fields on elements are now settable - More uniform field names (`heading.title` becomes `heading.body`, `list.items` becomes `list.children`, and a few more changes) - Further improvements - Added [`figure`] function - Added [`numbering`]($math.equation.numbering) parameter on equation function - Added [`numbering`]($page.numbering) and [`number-align`]($page.number-align) parameters on page function - The page function's [`header`]($page.header) and [`footer`]($page.footer) parameters do not take functions anymore. If you want to customize them based on the page number, use the new [`numbering`]($page.numbering) parameter or [`counter`] function instead. - Added [`footer-descent`]($page.footer-descent) and [`header-ascent`]($page.header-ascent) parameters - Better default alignment in header and footer - Fixed Arabic vowel placement - Fixed PDF font embedding issues - Renamed `math.formula` to [`math.equation`]($math.equation) - Font family must be a named argument now: `[#set text(font: "..")]` - Added support for [hanging indent]($par.hanging-indent) - Renamed paragraph `indent` to [`first-line-indent`]($par.first-line-indent) - More accurate [logarithm]($calc.log) when base is `2` or `10` - Improved some error messages - Fixed layout of [`terms`] list - Web app improvements - Added template gallery - Added buttons to insert headings, equations, raw blocks, and references - Jump to the source of something by clicking on it in the preview panel (works for text, equations, images, and more) - You can now upload your own fonts and use them in your project - Hover debugging and autocompletion now takes multiple files into account and works in show rules - Hover tooltips now automatically collapse multiple consecutive equal values - The preview now automatically scrolls to the right place when you type - Links are now clickable in the preview area - Toolbar, preview, and editor can now all be hidden - Added autocompletion for raw block language tags - Added autocompletion in SVG files - New back button instead of four-dots button - Lots of bug fixes ## February 25, 2023 - Font changes - New default font: Linux Libertine - New default font for raw blocks: DejaVu Sans Mono - New default font for math: Book weight of New Computer Modern Math - Lots of new math fonts available - Removed Latin Modern fonts in favor of New Computer Modern family - Removed unnecessary smallcaps fonts which are already accessible through the corresponding main font and the [`smallcaps`] function - Improved default spacing for headings - Added [`panic`] function - Added [`clusters`]($str.clusters) and [`codepoints`]($str.codepoints) methods for strings - Support for multiple authors in [`set document`]($document.author) - 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]($box) and [block] have gained `fill`, `stroke`, `radius`, and `inset` properties - Blocks may now be explicitly sized, fixed-height blocks can still break across pages - Blocks can now be configured to be [`breakable`]($block.breakable) or not - [Numbering style]($enum.numbering) can now be configured for nested enums - [Markers]($list.marker) 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]($text.dir) in lists, grids, and tables - Support for explicit `{auto}` sizing for boxes and shapes - Support for fractional (i.e. `{1fr}`) widths for boxes - Fixed bug where columns jump to next page - Fixed bug where list items have no leading - Fixed relative sizing in lists, squares and grid auto columns - Fixed relative displacement in [`place`] function - Fixed that lines don't have a size - Fixed bug where `{set document(..)}` complains about being after content - Fixed parsing of `{not in}` operation - Fixed hover tooltips in math - Fixed bug where a heading show rule may not contain a pagebreak when an outline is present - Added [`baseline`]($box.baseline) property on [`box`] - Added [`tg`]($math.op) and [`ctg`]($math.op) operators in math - Added delimiter setting for [`cases`]($math.cases) function - Parentheses are now included when accepting a function autocompletion ## February 2, 2023 - Merged text and math symbols, renamed a few symbols (including `infty` to `infinity` with the alias `oo`) - Fixed missing italic mappings - Math italics correction is now applied properly - Parentheses now scale in `[$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.](https://typst.app/blog/2023/january-update) - 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