typst/docs/src/general/changelog.md

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Learn what has changed in the latest Typst releases and move your documents forward.

Changelog

February 15, 2023

• Box and block have gained fill, stroke, radius, and inset properties
• Blocks may now be explicitly sized, fixed-height blocks can still break across pages
• Blocks can now be configured to be breakable or not
• Numbering style can now be configured for nested enums
• Markers can now be configured for nested lists
• The eval function now expects code instead of markup and returns an arbitrary value. Markup can still be evaluated by surrounding the string with brackets.
• PDFs generated by Typst now contain XMP metadata
• Link boxes are now disabled in PDF output
• Tables don't produce small empty cells before a pagebreak anymore
• Fixed raw block highlighting bug

February 12, 2023

• Shapes, images, and transformations (move/rotate/scale/repeat) are now block-level. To integrate them into a paragraph, use a box as with other elements.
• A colon is now required in an "everything" show rule: Write {show: it => ..} instead of {show it => ..}. This prevents intermediate states that ruin your whole document.
• Non-math content like a shape or table in a math formula is now centered vertically
• Support for widow and orphan prevention within containers
• Support for RTL in lists, grids, and tables
• Support for explicit {auto} sizing for boxes and shapes
• Support for fractional (i.e. {1fr}) widths for boxes
• Fixed bug where columns jump to next page
• Fixed bug where list items have no leading
• Fixed relative sizing in lists, squares and grid auto columns
• Fixed relative displacement in place function
• Fixed that lines don't have a size
• Fixed bug where {set document(..)} complains about being after content
• Fixed parsing of {not in} operation
• Fixed hover tooltips in math
• Fixed bug where a heading show rule may not contain a pagebreak when an outline is present
• Added baseline property on box
• Added tg and ctg operators in math
• Added delimiter setting for cases function
• Parentheses are now included when accepting a function autocompletion

February 2, 2023

• Merged text and math symbols, renamed a few symbols (including infty to infinity with the alias oo)
• Fixed missing italic mappings
• Math italics correction is now applied properly
• Parentheses now scale in [$zeta(x/2)$]
• Fixed placement of large root index
• Fixed spacing in [$abs(-x)$]
• Fixed inconsistency between text and identifiers in math
• Accents are now ignored when positioning superscripts
• Fixed vertical alignment in matrices
• Fixed text set rule in raw show rule
• Heading and list markers now parse consistently
• Allow arbitrary math directly in content

January 30, 2023

Go to the announcement blog post.

• New expression syntax in markup/math
  • Blocks cannot be directly embedded in markup anymore
  • Like other expressions, they now require a leading hashtag
  • More expressions available with hashtag, including literals ([#"string"]) as well as field access and method call without space: [#emoji.face]
• New import syntax
  • [#import "module.typ"] creates binding named module
  • [#import "module.typ": a, b] or [#import "module.typ": *] to import items
  • [#import emoji: face, turtle] to import from already bound module
• New symbol handling
  • Removed symbol notation
  • Symbols are now in modules: {sym}, {emoji}, and {math}
  • Math module also reexports all of {sym}
  • Modified through field access, still order-independent
  • Unknown modifiers are not allowed anymore
  • Support for custom symbol definitions with symbol function
  • Symbols now listed in documentation
• New {math} module
  • Contains all math-related functions
  • Variables and function calls directly in math (without hashtag) access this module instead of the global scope, but can also access local variables
  • Can be explicitly used in code, e.g. [#set math.vec(delim: "[")]
• Delimiter matching in math
  • Any opening delimiters matches any closing one
  • When matched, they automatically scale
  • To prevent scaling, escape them
  • To forcibly match two delimiters, use lr function
  • Line breaks may occur between matched delimiters
  • Delimiters may also be unbalanced
  • You can also use the lr function to scale the brackets (or just one bracket) to a specific size manually
• Multi-line math with alignment
  • The \ character inserts a line break
  • The & character defines an alignment point
  • Alignment points also work for underbraces, vectors, cases, and matrices
  • Multiple alignment points are supported
• More capable math function calls
  • Function calls directly in math can now take code expressions with hashtag
  • They can now also take named arguments
  • Within math function calls, semicolons turn preceding arguments to arrays to support matrices: [$mat(1, 2; 3, 4)$]
• Arbitrary content in math
  • Text, images, and other arbitrary content can now be embedded in math
  • Math now also supports font fallback to support e.g. CJK and emoji
• More math features
  • New text operators: op function, lim, max, etc.
  • New matrix function: mat
  • New n-ary roots with root function: [$root(3, x)$]
  • New under- and overbraces, -brackets, and -lines
  • New abs and norm functions
  • New shorthands: [|, |], and ||
  • New attach function, overridable attachments with script and limit
  • Manual spacing in math, with h, thin, med, thick and quad
  • Symbols and other content may now be used like a function, e.g. [$zeta(x)$]
  • Added Fira Math font, removed Noto Sans Math font
  • Support for alternative math fonts through [#show math.formula: set text("Fira Math")]
• More library improvements
  • New calc module, abs, min, max, even, odd and mod moved there
  • New message argument on {assert} function
  • The pairs method on dictionaries now returns an array of length-2 arrays instead of taking a closure
  • The method call {dict.at("key")} now always fails if "key" doesn't exist Previously, it was allowed in assignments. Alternatives are {dict.key = x} and {dict.insert("key", x)}.
• Smarter editor functionality
  • Autocompletion for local variables
  • Autocompletion for methods available on a value
  • Autocompletion for symbols and modules
  • Autocompletion for imports
  • Hover over an identifier to see its value(s)
• Further editor improvements
  • New Font menu with previews
  • Single projects may now be shared with share links
  • New dashboard experience if projects are shared with you
  • Keyboard Shortcuts are now listed in the menus and there are more of them
  • New Offline indicator
  • Tooltips for all buttons
  • Improved account protection
  • Moved Status indicator into the error list button
• Further fixes
  • Multiple bug fixes for incremental parser
  • Fixed closure parameter capturing
  • Fixed tons of math bugs
  • Bugfixes for performance, file management, editing reliability
  • Added redirection to the page originally navigated to after signin