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Katvan - a Barebones Typst Editor
(www.pling.com)
https://github.com/IgKh/katvan
Available as an Appimage.
Needs typst installed in the same directory or PATH to allow rendering and export.
Typst is a new, simpler alternative to LaTeX, written in Rust. It did a big headstart, seems to be in a great state and has a lot of sponsors!
Currenlty there only is a VSCode / VSCodium Extension and a Webapp. A Kate extension would be great of course.
There also is a Language server for Typst which seems actively maintained.
Alternative
Typst has a watch mode, which automatically compiles the PDF.
You can then edit the source with any editor you want (best with LSP) and preview the PDF with Okular.
typst watch document.typ &
okular document.pdf &
kate document.typ
Now, if you would also have an idea how to spawn 2 processes from one shell script, that would be awesome!
Use case: desktop entry to open .typ files.
typst watch %fand detach processsome-editor %fand detach processI would love to either just add those entries as "applications", or create Dolphin context menus.