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Live rendering with TeXpresso

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#3,616 opened on Apr 22, 2024

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Description

I am a fan of WYSIWYG feature. Unfortunately, Texstudio only has an option Auto-recompile document on changes, which is not a kind of incremental rendering: image

Recently, I have come across TeXpresso which offers

  1. Live rendering:

https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/assets/28704090/ee90fda9-af68-4f4f-864a-4881d0fc4a9f

  1. Synchronization from document to editor:

https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/assets/28704090/20af08fa-e966-4574-9314-3b90b1a66212

  1. Synchronization from editor to document:

https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/assets/28704090/e97e7cc5-3c5c-46be-80ef-22398b9384a5

I hope that the community could integrate those great features of TeXpresso into Texstudio. This would be very helpful for editing LaTex documents with complicated equations. Thank you so much for your consideration!

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Research direction
Study TeXpresso's architecture and understand how it performs live rendering. Then explore TeXstudio's preview system (likely based on Qt's QTextDocument or a custom widget) to find integration points. Focus on how to trigger incremental re rendering on document changes without full recompilation.
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