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Imaginary Text
Personal blog · imaginarytext.ca/postsdesignprogramming
Imaginary Text is a personal blog at imaginarytext.ca about design and programming. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Imaginary Text's post on a new Typst template for Pandoc, which shows how a Markdown file can be converted to PDF using Pandoc and Typst.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-29
What Hacker News says?
The author explain this in more detail in the article; I also was initially confused. The key details come from their broken down pandoc command. Specifically, these two flags: --pdf-engine=typst -V template=article.typ Despite the input content being a .md file, we see that the .md contents populate the .typ file. Pandoc then understands how to convert the populated .typ file into a .pdf. The author also notes in t…
Comment linking /posts/2024/pandoc-typst-tutorial/
on “A New Typst Template for Pandoc”Submitted Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs as a story · 112 points
HN discussionExamples pf typst styling here: https://typst.app/docs/tutorial/advanced-styling/ And his template here: https://imaginarytext.ca/posts/2025/img/article.typ
Comment linking /posts/2025/img/article.typ
on “A New Typst Template for Pandoc”Submitted Typst, PagedJs and open-source typesetting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Typst Template for Pandoc as a story · 1 points
HN discussion