Maths, tables, and other things prose is bad at

Camille Roux·July 21, 2026·1 min read

A typesetting language brings its own answers to the things Markdown farms out to plugins. None of the following is an extension; it is what Typst does.

An equation

The sum every incremental build is really computing, which is how much work it managed not to do:

Inline maths sits in a sentence without ceremony: a page whose fingerprint $ℎ\left(𝑝\right)$ is unchanged is served from the cache.

A table

A list that means something

1. Parse the content tree and read every frontmatter.
2. Fingerprint each page against the cache.
3. Compile what changed, in parallel.
4. Post-process the DOM: links, anchors, images, meta.
5. Write, then sweep whatever no source maps to.