Overview

Formats

Texpile edits LaTeX, Typst, and Markdown. The editor is the same for all three. What differs is how a document is compiled and previewed, and a few things the visual editor can show in one format and not another.

Feature LaTeX Typst Markdown
Visual editing Yes Yes Yes
Source editing, keymaps, multiple cursors Yes Yes Yes
Preview as you type Yes, with your TeX distribution Yes, on by default, with tinymist The visual editor is the preview
Compile to PDF Yes Yes No
Completion, hover, and errors as you type Yes Yes, from tinymist File paths in links and images only
Jump between source and preview SyncTeX, in source mode Yes, both ways No
@ picker for citations and references Yes Yes No
Zotero Yes Yes No
Spell check, comments, contents panel, word count Yes Yes Yes
Version control, shared sessions, MCP Yes Yes Yes
Needs a program installed A TeX distribution tinymist Nothing

The rest of the docs describe LaTeX where the formats differ. One page per format says what is its own:

LaTeX The format the rest of these docs describe, and where its own pages are. Typst The same editors, with compiling and the preview through tinymist. Markdown The same editors, with no compile step. The visual editor is the preview.