alt Hacker NewsReminder that it's 2026 and batch-mode typesetting seems an oddly low bar for what we can get from a computer.
Tree-structured documents in a live (WYSIWYG) typesetter with a programmable editor are possible, as is demonstrated by https://texmacs.org (https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/videos.en.html if you don't have it installed).
“batch-mode typesetting seems an oddly low bar for what we can get from a computer.”
I don’t know what this is intended to mean.
“a live (WYSIWYG) typesetter”
I don’t like this mode of interaction. No, thanks.
Typst is fast enough to provide a live preview, and I can use Vim or any editor I want, along with my choice of PDF viewer.