Support for Typst 0.12.0

[grantmcdermott]

Description

Can anyone point me to Quarto's vendoring cycle/policy for Typst?

My question was prompted by the release of Typst 0.12.0 a few days ago, which includes a bunch of nice features that I'd like to access via Quarto. In particular, enabling line numbers.

Thanks!

[mcanouil]

It will likely be included in 1.7.

[danieltomasz]

Just a comment about release cycle, after 0.12 typst developers plan to ship new release every 6-8 weeks (0.12 took longer due to architecture changes et cetera) https://forum.typst.app/t/why-is-the-release-cycle-so-slow/570/2
Quarto has releases around ~ 2 times a year, I completely understand freezing dependencies in the window before release, given the policies stated above is there a possible change for potentially more dependencies updates during the development window if it will be sufficiently early in the development?

[cscheid]

Not unless something goes very wrong. We have a lot of dependencies and it's a significant source of toil on our development time.

[boweihu]

I am using the newly released Quarto 1.7.2, but the Typst version is still 0.11.0. I'm hoping things get updated and work soon!

[cderv]

I am using the newly released Quarto 1.7.2, but the Typst version is still 0.11.0.

@boweihu yes no update was done yet. You can follow pre-release not to know when this will happen: https://prerelease.quarto.org/docs/download/

[jeremy886]

I really want to show emojis in 0.12.0. 🏋️😀

[grantmcdermott]

Late follow-up to this, but has anyone successfully managed to include line numbers in the Quarto documents via Typst? I'm struggling, although "native" Typst works as expected.

I've set my TYPST_QUARTO shell envar and confirmed with quarto check that it's running version 0.12.0.

quarto check                                                              ─╯
Quarto 1.5.57
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.12.0: OK
...

However when I try to render a document with line numbers I encounter an error. Minimal YAML:

title: "Important findings"
date: last-modified
format:
  typst:
    include-in-header:
      - text: |
          #set par.line(numbering: "1")

Rendering triggers the following error:

[typst]: Compiling typst-ex.typ to typst-ex.pdf...error: function `par` does not contain field `line`
    ┌─ typst-ex.typ:282:9
    │
282 │ #set par.line(numbering: "1")

Grateful for any guidance here...

[gordonwoodhull]

Sadly, this is why we can't support nonstandard configurations of Quarto. They may work, but we can't really help you get it working.

In my case I see the expected behavior when I set QUARTO_TYPST (please note reversed words in your original message) to the path of the 0.11.1, 0.12, 0.13 Typst binaries.

Your document fails with the error you show when I use Typst 0.11.1, but it succeeds with the later versions.

You can double-check that your Quarto is running the Typst version you expect with

quarto typst ---version

There shouldn't be any discrepancy with the Typst version reported by quarto check, but this is more direct.

[grantmcdermott]

In my case I see the expected behavior when I set QUARTO_TYPST (please note reversed words in your original message)

Thanks, that was a typo in my message. I used the correct QUARTO_TYPST entry in my .zshrc. (Sorry for the noise.) For posterity, I ran:

echo "export QUARTO_TYPST='$(which typst)'" >> ~/.zshrc

Where which typst gives me the symlink to the 0.12.0 binary (/usr/local/Cellar/typst/0.12.0/bin/typst).

You can double-check that your Quarto is running the Typst version you expect with

quarto typst --version

Still 0.12.0 and having the same rendering problem. I'm stumped, but I'll try on a different OS tomorrow and maybe I'll have more joy. Failing that, looking forward to the 1.7 Quarto release that will bundle Typst v0.12.0 by default ;-)

Appreciate the help.

[grantmcdermott]

Failing that, looking forward to the 1.7 Quarto release that will bundle Typst v0.12.0 by default.

Confirmed that line numbering (and presumably other new features too) work out-of-the-gate with the latest available 1.7.22 pre-release, which bundles Typst 0.13.0. 🎉🎉

Thanks to the @gordonwoodhull and other Quarto-typst devs.

[roaldarbol]

Also works for me!

[roaldarbol]

As a tangential question, is there a way to specify a path to a different Typst installation? I see there's a QUARTO_TYPST global variable. Would it work to set that to point to a different installation? Or would it simply break things?

[gordonwoodhull]

Yes, set QUARTO_TYPST to the location of a different Typst binary in order to use that instead.

Please note that we can’t support non-standard configurations, so be sure not to have this set when preparing a question or issue.

(But it usually works.)

[roaldarbol]

Cool, thanks! Would it only break if I use a template that was designed for an earlier version or is there some stuff happening behind the scenes which can break?

[gordonwoodhull]

I can’t answer the first part of your question — that’s up to you to figure out on your own — but no, there is nothing going on behind the scenes.

We are creating a .typ document and then running typst compile on it to get a PDF. We might pass a —font-path but that’s about it.

[roaldarbol]

Coolio, I’ll maybe give it a shot 😅