Typst for Efficient Typesetting

​Creating professional-looking PDFs for articles, reports, lecture notes, and books has traditionally meant learning LaTeX.

​Today, Typst offers a modern alternative that combines beautiful typography with a simpler syntax and remarkably fast compilation, while integrating seamlessly with Quarto.

​In this workshop, we will explore how Quarto and Typst work together to produce publication-quality documents using reproducible workflows. Participants will learn how to customize document layouts, control typography, work with figures, tables, citations, and cross-references, and generate polished PDFs directly from Quarto projects.

​Whether you're preparing research papers, teaching material, technical reports, or books, this session will introduce a modern typesetting workflow that combines the flexibility of Quarto with the design capabilities of Typst. No previous experience with Typst or LaTeX is required—just curiosity about creating beautiful documents with open-source tools.


Speaker:

​Derek Sollberger is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Princeton University, where he teaches data science, statistics, and reproducible research. An active member of the R community, Derek is passionate about open-source tools and modern publishing workflows. Through his teaching, workshops, and technical writing, he helps researchers, educators, and students create clear, reproducible, and beautifully formatted documents using R, Quarto, and emerging technologies such as Typst.