{Eberhard W. Lisse}
{Introduction to Typst}
{typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as
powerful as \LaTeX\ while being much easier to learn and use. It flows
from a Master's thesis at the Technical Unversity Berlin, is written
in Rust, and has a domain-specific language that is much easier to master
than \TeX\ or \LaTeX. It produces quite reasonable output, and especially for
shorter documents it is extremely fast, though it remains a work in
progress. It can be obtained from Github at
\url{https://github.com/typst/typst}.

I am a long time user of \LaTeX, in particular with \LyX\ and while not
a programmer but rather an obstetrician/gynecologist, I'm
computer-literate enough to generate and use templates with perl and
bash. This will be an introductory presentation, showing the comparison
of some simple texts in \LaTeX\ and typst.}