Hey people! I want to learn typst, a modern alternative to LaTeX written in Rust.

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Typst can incrementally compile the files to PDF.

Ironically, there is no incrementally refreshing PDF viewer afaik. So for direct visual output of my progress, I would like the fastest, smoothest PDF viewer.

  • Firefox loads too slow
  • Okular fast but nonremovable popup and “dancing text” on load

It can be as small and minimal for that task as possible.

Priorities:

  1. Smooth reload (fade or else) to not flicker
  2. Fast refresh
  3. Incremental loading ?
  4. Generally solid
  • barbara@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    pulsar (atom successor) is great for it, vscodium should do it, evince (gnome pdf viewer) works good.

    What nonremovable popup a d dancing text in okular?

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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      7 months ago

      Right, forgot about Pulsar. Also have Lace installed but that may not have the needed tools.

      VSCodium also installed in a Distrobox, but tbh I dont want to use it. It is slow, Electron, Microsoft etc. Just not an option.

      I am currently trying to add syntax highlighting for typst to kate, but I read that XML and damn thats complex.