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
  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If by “nonremovable popup” in Okular, you mean that little toast-like notification in the top-left, that can be turned off in Settings → Configure Okular… → General → “Show hints and info messages”.

    Not sure, what you mean by “dancing text”. I’m using Okular for my Lilypond escapades, which is basically Latex for sheet music, so not a ton of text that could be dancing, but well, it doesn’t.
    You might be able to improve Okular’s (text rendering) speed by tweaking the settings in Settings → Configure Okular… → Performance…