Imaginary Text

An update and rewrite of my basic article-typesetting Typst template, for making nice-looking PDFs with Pandoc and markdown. This version works with Typst v0.13 and Pandoc 3.6.

My last post on Typst for a bit, I promise. This is an attempt to do a basic tutorial on producing nice PDFs from markdown, using Pandoc and Typst.

More adventures in open-source typesetting with Typst. This time: typesetting an actual book, with open-source tools. Plus: ghosts, dandies, and beheaded queens!

In honour of International Women's Day, a review of Nancy Stock-Allen's excellent biography of type designer Carol Twombly, whose career spanned the whole first period of digital typography.

This coming June, at the DHSI, I'm renewing my course: *Text Processing Techniques and Traditions* -- or, Why the History of Computing Matters to DH. In which we zoom in on the continuities between print culture and modern computing, rather than seeing these as distinct lineages separated by a conceptual break. While re-writing the course, I wrote a short reflection on what it's about.

I have been playing with Typst, a new, open-source typesetting tool that replaces LaTeX and also plays very nicely with modern digital publishing pipelines. In this post I offer some potted history and some reflections on why it might matter.