GOST

I was once one of those poor souls that uses LaTeX. Word is a goddawful program that has no place on this planet. LaTeX is beautiful, but not the sort of thing I've ever convinced anyone else to touch. Gost was born of me trying to make entry into LaTeX easier for people, for simplifying the preamble/template creation, which quickly got sidelined when I discovered Typst.

Typst feels closer to Mardown in syntax (simple, not so verbose), but achieves LaTeX results. Unfortunately, writing the preamble still felt like more than most people were doing to do. More than I felt like doing. So I made Gost, to create templates for both LaTeX and Typst. After messing around a bit with a real focus on getting dropcaps and forcing Junicode, I realized instead that Gost could help academics produce standards compliant articles. So it became about citation/formatting styles (SBL, Chicago, APA, etc...) and (for LaTeX at least) compliance with journal publishing templates.

It feels like the kind of thing that can take a lot of stress off students, who I know hate working to get all the formatting to comply with whatever style guide their professors favour.

And, in the end, I even included templating for DOCX/ODT, because I guess that's still what people are using. And then, more importantly, I added a switch to allow you to view the whole thing using Gost Type B font.