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Multi word search for packages in Typst Universe #823

@asmund20

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@asmund20

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The search on Typst Universe should have a higher recall. Currently the only way that I know of to include more than one word in a search is with exact match using double quotes. That gives a low recall, making it difficult to find packages that do a specific thing, but that does not have an obvious "keyword" that can be used to locate them.

I am open to try making a PR for an improved search engine for TU as it could be a fun project, but the web app is not open source AFAIK.

Use Case

When searching for a package, one often writes words that would be in the description of the package. An example is when looking for a package for drawing quantum circuits, one might intuitively search for "quantum circuit". Even though there is a package with that exact text in it's description, it does not show up in the search.
It does work when including quotes in the search, but that requires a perfect match which is difficult to use when not already knowing the exact description of the package.

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