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
3 Likes
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?
1 Like
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
3 Likes