Typst: use tablex for output

[cscheid]

https://github.com/PgBiel/typst-tablex offers great table support. We should be able to use Pandoc's new table AST (with row and colspans) and compile it down to a tablex statement.

[reknih]

Just wanted to note that the stock Typst table (0.11) now supports row and colspans

[gordonwoodhull]

Thanks @reknih, yes, colspan and rowspan for Typst 0.11 (along with a few HTMLish features) just landed in Pandoc and I've been testing them for Quarto 1.5. (They work great!)

@cscheid, are there other reasons for considering tablex or should we close this?

[mcanouil]

I believe the reason was mostly because there were no native thing at the time, and tablex was the only thing available.
So, I would go in favour of closing this in favour of the native new features from Typst v0.11. (it avoids adding a dependency also)

[cderv]

I believe the new item about Typst 0.11 in tablex readme is to read
https://github.com/PgBiel/typst-tablex#important-note-regarding-typst-0110-and-tablex

A large amount of tablex's features have successfully been upstreamed by this package's author to Typst's built-in table and grid elements

The new Typst support has been done by the author of tables

Therefore, for the vast majority of use cases, you will no longer need to use this library
(...)
Not all tablex features are present in built-in tables, at least yet. (...). It is expected, however, that built-in tables will eventually have support for most of the missing features in future Typst releases.

I think tablex won't be needed and we can indeed close this @gordonwoodhull !

[gordonwoodhull]

Nice!