I just dropped the Kawaii Mothman in the shop, the main August design (there are always others, including the Spooky Eyes basic design already).

It's probably the last one I'll do the instructions for in Inkscape. The multi-page stuff is fairly well-done for as new as it is, but it's still a bit of a struggle to insert pages if I realize I want to expand on a step.

Instead, I spent today immediately re-constructing the Mothman instructions using Typst.

LibreOffice and Scribus didn't work out for me because they ate up the memory on the little laptop I do so much of my editing on, and got progressively slower as I added more steps and images.

I am an old-school typesetter, and I don't at all mind (prefer, even) doing the basic work in a text editor. Typst has a WYSIWYG editor but it's web-based, and y'all already know my feelings on remote-hosted stuff. But you can work entirely locally on it.

The source file is in the text editor in the lefthand panel. The Typst program is running down in the lowest panel of the screenshot in the header, and whenever it sees a change it re-builds the PDF. My PDF viewer sits in the righthand panel, and it updates whenever it sees a change in the PDF. It's perfect, I love it.

This makes writing instructions for fancier designs, which I'm easing back into with these assembled-from-flat-parts ones, so much easier.