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I use mostly typst for pdf generating today i have written different frontends and connectors to transform everything into typ files and templates. I eben use it with sphinx as a backend

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How do you use it with i18n and theming and templates? Do you define all of these outside of typst and (e.g.) add a shadow file to the typst compiler?

Asking because I've recenly been doing something similar, but since my typst files are templates, which with the same inputs can differ and may need different translations as well, I've written a small i18n library in typst (but I guess you could require a set of translations to be present with a given typst file as well).

I'm interested in knowing how you do the i18n in Typst. Seems interesting

U have a typst template file mostly containig functions and variable defs. Then i have a docutil -> typst rewriter that makes use of the functions of the the template. i18n is a non problem for me, because i have source files containig the correct text, but i have created ttf fonts containing may international glyphs using fontutils. As sphinx and typst support unicode it just works. the PDF are then postprocessed and all glyphs not used are striped out of the pdf, also some pdf streams are removed to shrink the pdf

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