The format name typst?

[eitsupi]

Description

Currently the format name for rendering PDF using the Typst CLI is typst, but is this ideal when compared to other formats?

In other words, the other formats are not intermediate formats, but the final output is the name of the format.
For example, hugo-md (the final output is hugo web site), docusaurus-md (the final output is docusaurus web site).

So shouldn't the format to output PDF with typst as intermediate format be pdf-typst?

Since the Typst roadmap includes compiling to other formats like html, I think pdf-typst makes more sense than typst, considering that there may be future demand for HTML documents using typst as an intermediate format.
Shouldn't the format name typst be used to generate typst files without rendering PDF?

[cscheid]

Yes, that's currently an inconsistency on our side. It turns out to be hard to solve because of other assumptions in our code base wrt pdf being a format "owned" by the pdflatex engine. So, we'll eventually have to fix it, but it's not going to happen soon.

[eitsupi]

Thank you for answering. That seems reasonable.

Perhaps this should be converted into an issue?

[cderv]

I would say this is tracked already at

• [FR] Rethink the way to output PDF from any format.  #7039

[eitsupi]

Glad to know that, thanks!