This is a preprocessor for mdbook that uses syntect and Typst syntax for Sublime Text to produce&render highlighted Typst code.

Here is an example of output:

Install using cargo:

cargo install --git https://github.com/sitandr/mdbook-typst-highlight --locked

To add preprocessor to mdbook, add this to your book.toml:

[preprocessor.typst-highlight]

After it, run mdbook build or serve. That's it. All inline code and blocks with typ will be highlighted.

Currently there are only two settings available:

• Whether to highlight inline blocks (default is yes):

[preprocessor.typst-highlight]
disable_inline = true

• Whether to highlight and render blocks without language specified:

[preprocessor.typst-highlight]
typst_default = true

To enable rendering, just add

[preprocessor.typst-highlight]
render = true

Important: the binary doesn't include Typst and itself. For rendering to work, you have to get installed Typst in PATH.

Rendered looks like this:

It comes with prelude that sets width: 300pt, margin: 0.5cm and height: auto. To disable it, add typ-nopreamble as codeblock language.

You can also disable certain blocks (but still highlight them) using typ-norender.

To prevent recompiling large amount of files, all images are cached. To clear images, add **/typst-src and **/typst-img to .gitignore and then run git clean -d -X -i (I strictly advise using interactive mode just to make sure you don't delete something necessary).