@MaximeRivest: I hate microsoft word and google docs. I hate how you are NOT protected, as a users, from just starting to manually for…
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A developer shares frustration with traditional word processors and presents an experiment to turn Typst into a WYSIWYG editor optimized for e-ink tablets, leveraging AI to generate templates from descriptions.
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I hate microsoft word and google docs.
I hate how you are NOT protected, as a users, from just starting to manually format everything everywhere. Too few knows how to use templates… and templates can be tedious to create!
Latex, markdown, typst, html (+css, js) can be a solution, but mixing text with code can make it hard to edit and not a solution for none technical people.
Markdown is awesome, but you loose a lot of power.
Below is an experiment to make typst into a wysiwyg editor that will work well in eink tablets (hopefully :) )!
Now, with AI, we can get templates for pretty much free, we just need to sketch an idea or describe it in words, and the models can produce it, ready for you to fill out.
The prototype in the video is based on typst and a custom rendering viewer (so that I can use it on eink screens, with a pen).
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