In 2025, use Typst to typeset your slidedcks

Back before I knew Typst existed, I wrote Beam, a language which could transpile to TeX and then generate LaTeX beamer slides. For some obvious reasons this is quite a suboptimal idea, and really papers over the fact that LaTeX syntax, particularly for typesetting slides, is very cumbersome.

Well, it is the year 2025, and Typst is a very ergonomic typesetting language. For almost any reason, it is probably wiser to use Typst to typeset slideshows instead of beamer. I personally am using slydst to typeset the slides for my puzzle course next semester.

That’s all from me today. Cheers, and happy new year!