Drafts (Work in progress)

Drafts is an editor for technical writing that leverages the Typst typesetting system.

Features

• A lightweight editing experience with syntax highlighting and document navigation

• Lightning-fast PDF preview and export (thanks to the recently open sourced Typst compiler).

• Menu-based interactions for common tasks (math symbol input, document formatting)

• Provides a few generic templates to help you get started.

Installation

A Flathub release is begin worked on, but for now you can use:

Flatpak

The preferred method of installation is Flatpak, which will guarantee you have all the system dependencies setup and will provide a nicer system integration:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/limads/drafts/master/io.github.limads.Drafts.Devel.json
mkdir drafts-build
flatpak-builder --repo=drafts-build/repo drafts-build/build io.github.limads.Drafts.Devel.json --state-dir=drafts-build/state --force-clean --install --user
flatpak run io.github.limads.Drafts

Direct cargo install

You will need to have a few system dependencies installed (they probably are if you are using a distribution with a recent Gnome environment (>=43):

libgtk-4-1
libgtksourceview-5
libpoppler123

Make sure you also have a recent Rust toolchain (>=1.67), then use cargo build or cargo install:

git clone https://github.com/limads/drafts
cd drafts
cargo install --path .
./cargo/bin/drafts