<15MB Local-first Interactive LaTeX Scratchpad in the Browser

In the maker’s words

I am working on a very modular typesetting engine called TeLoX, intended as a superset of the capabilities (of at least) XeTeX and pdfLaTeX, written in Rust. The main goals are modularity and speed (which we know sometimes fight each other unless we try to be principled about it). Today I wanted to demonstrate these diegetic interactive sliders that control values within in LaTeX from the browser (kinda like marimo). This isn't meant to be a complete editor like quicklatex and texlyre -- just a tiny playground that loads quickly enough and responds interactively to see how good I can get the typing experience to be. Package support is the weakest link right now so lots of reasonable LaTeX you type up will fail. Increasing coverage fights against fast load times, and so I'll add some 'code splitting' -- I can make the editor dynamically fetch cached blobs for the most common $k$ packages …

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