Typesetter is a native Linux GUI for creating documents with the Typst typesetting system. Its adaptive GTK interface provides a focused editing environment suitable for reports, articles, academic work and other structured documents. Files remain on the local computer, while integrated previews and navigation tools make it easy to inspect the formatted result as you write.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Focus on writing: Streamlined interface. Great for composing papers, reports, slides, books, and other structured documents.
- Powered by Typst: Uses a modern markup-based typesetting language that combines the simplicity of Markdown with the power of LaTeX.
- Fully local: Your files stay on your machine. There is no cloud lock-in.
- Package management: Install, remove, and automatically fetch Typst packages from within the app.
- Templates: Create new documents from built-in or user-defined templates.
- Automatic preview: See the rendered document update as you write.
- Click-to-jump: Click part of the preview to jump to the corresponding position in the source file.
- Magnifier tool: Click and hold on the preview to inspect fine details.
- Accessibility checking: Simulate different forms of colour blindness to check how your document appears to all readers.
- Centered scrolling: Keeps your writing visually anchored as you type.
- Syntax highlighting: Makes documents easier to edit and read.
- Grammar suggestions: Automatically checks your writing for grammatical errors. This feature currently supports English only.
- Document statistics: Easily calculate page, word, and character counts.
- Fast and native: Built with Rust and GTK.
Website: codeberg.org/haydn/typesetter
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Developer: Haydn Trowell
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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