Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]

Post by gucci-on-fleek » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 9:49 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #12

FullGarden_S wrote: post #10

This is great but I feel like the potential is underused. I know its a lot of work but I think we all could desperately use an interactive LaTeX notebook instead of limiting it to only the PDF backend and this work helps a lot with achieving that endeavour. Though it'll be limited to LuaTeX, it'll still be quite something.

Back in the 90's, one of my professors had such software on Solaris. The experience was just like using Word, but with LaTeX. Unfortunately not the kind of stuff the vi and emacs folks care about. Although LyX comes close.

Post by mkl » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

gucci-on-fleek wrote: post #20

mkl wrote: post #5

No mention of TikZ. Realtime TikZ would be really useful to me. I will wait and see what their https://texlode.com service is like for that.

The author said that Ti k Z works correctly in a message during their presentation [0]: > 3:27:36 @lodepublishing : I have tested tikz but not yet tcolorbox. TikZ works, with some wiring. But a different tool was posted here a few weeks ago with real-time support for Ti k Z [1] if you're interested in something that you can use immediately. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/live/6riWbnT0grs [1]: https://news.ycombinator.c…