Have you seen this?
It’s only a proof of concept and has never been implemented in any real system, but maybe it’s conceivable with typst?
Pierre — co-inventor of Gliimpse and new typst user
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I’ve never seen it before but it looks really cool!
Is it still under active development? The video you posted is from 2011, and the site the video description links to hasn’t been updated since 2018.
Since you are a co-inventor, are you interested in extending Gliimpse to support Typst? or are you looking for others that may take that task up?
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We haven’t done anything since 2011. For now, it’s just a one-off prototype and publication.
I’ve always hoped Gliimpse would be implemented someday, and I’m also a fan of Typst. I’m happy to help by offering guidance—including clarifying how we built our prototype, to the best of my memory—but I’m probably not the best person to contribute code to a production-ready implementation.
We didn’t file any patents on Gliimpse, so anyone is free to implement it. That said, it’s quite hard to implement. I assume Typst and its editor have a cleaner architecture than LaTeX, so perhaps it’s doable.
Pierre
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so cool! this looks very much doable, given the typst compiler’s ability to match source code locations to output locations, and vice versa. (see typst-ide’s jump_from_cursor() and jump_from_click())
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To be honest, I think the gliimpse way of previewing is not ideal.
I think it is better to work with something like Typora, Obsidian (preview mode) or Marktext, where the visual mode is the default and when I click on something exactly this line of code is transformed into code mode.
In this case one doesn’t have to constantly have the animation, that can be distracting, and one doesn’t have to follow something with ones eyes which can be straining.
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