This is not in fact a compositing window manager for Windows, but rather a port of a Mac app for WYSIWYG LaTeX editing. It looks like a very useful application. Just wish they prioritized porting it to Linux instead.
Mac and (to a lesser extent) Windows users pay for software while Linux users as a rule want free (as in 'beer' as well as 'freedom') software. This is a product, not a project, the intention seems to be to start charging for the product when it reaches 'version 2.0'.
If you want to do something resembling 'WYSIWYG´ LaTeX editing on Linux there's LyX [1] which I've been using for decades starting with the Xforms version. LyX is not really 'WYSIWYG' as that is not really what LaTeX is meant for. Here's an excerpt from the project site which describes the difference:
LyX presents the user with the familiar face of a WYSIWYG word processor. However, users familiar with Microsoft Word or WordPerfect may be perplexed by certain basic LyX behaviour. For example, repeatedly hitting the space bar has no effect! This is by design: LyX puts in the proper spacing for you, intelligently.
Think of LyX as the first WYSIWYM word processor: What You See Is What You Mean. All the common formatting intelligence of LaTeX is presented to the user through visual controls, like a table-of-contents window acting as an outline browser, "live" reference links (to figure and table captions, sections, pages and literature citations), automatic multilevel section and list numbering, and more. You tell LyX how to treat particular words and lines in your document: e.g., this is standard text, this is a Section title, this is a footnote, this is a caption beneath an inserted graphic. As you click your selections, the WYSIWYM interface gives you clean, straightforward "visual clues" (actually, very WYSIWYG-like).
I use it to do my grad school stuff. One gripe is that on macOS cmd+R doesn't correctly refresh documents with images that are not rendered. One has to reopen the doc to get images rendered correctly. Anyway, formulas, text and tables do update so it's mostly fine. I wanted to buy it but Karl doesn't accept money anywhere.
This is not in fact a compositing window manager for Windows, but rather a port of a Mac app for WYSIWYG LaTeX editing. It looks like a very useful application. Just wish they prioritized porting it to Linux instead.
I would be very interested to try it on Linux.
Looks like I might like the UI.
Mac and (to a lesser extent) Windows users pay for software while Linux users as a rule want free (as in 'beer' as well as 'freedom') software. This is a product, not a project, the intention seems to be to start charging for the product when it reaches 'version 2.0'.
If you want to do something resembling 'WYSIWYG´ LaTeX editing on Linux there's LyX [1] which I've been using for decades starting with the Xforms version. LyX is not really 'WYSIWYG' as that is not really what LaTeX is meant for. Here's an excerpt from the project site which describes the difference:
LyX presents the user with the familiar face of a WYSIWYG word processor. However, users familiar with Microsoft Word or WordPerfect may be perplexed by certain basic LyX behaviour. For example, repeatedly hitting the space bar has no effect! This is by design: LyX puts in the proper spacing for you, intelligently.
Think of LyX as the first WYSIWYM word processor: What You See Is What You Mean. All the common formatting intelligence of LaTeX is presented to the user through visual controls, like a table-of-contents window acting as an outline browser, "live" reference links (to figure and table captions, sections, pages and literature citations), automatic multilevel section and list numbering, and more. You tell LyX how to treat particular words and lines in your document: e.g., this is standard text, this is a Section title, this is a footnote, this is a caption beneath an inserted graphic. As you click your selections, the WYSIWYM interface gives you clean, straightforward "visual clues" (actually, very WYSIWYG-like).
[1] https://www.lyx.org/WhatIsLyX
I use it to do my grad school stuff. One gripe is that on macOS cmd+R doesn't correctly refresh documents with images that are not rendered. One has to reopen the doc to get images rendered correctly. Anyway, formulas, text and tables do update so it's mostly fine. I wanted to buy it but Karl doesn't accept money anywhere.
Very interesting work.
What's the point of this?
I'm sure there are some people who would prefer a graphical interface like this.
My guess is the point is personal exploration and edification, which is also the best reason I can think of to hack on stuff