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by cbolton 38 days ago
I wonder if using Typst would be a viable solution: the compiler can be built into a wasm component that runs locally in the browser (that's what the Typst webapp does) and it generates good PDFs with working selection/copy/paste.

There's even a package (cmarker) than can translate Markdown to Typst which could be enough for a MVP.
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LuttelBurchtje 38 days ago
The Swiss army knife for document conversion, Pandoc, supports compiling to WASM since 3.9 [1]. It supports Markdown, in a wide variety of flavours, and Typst. Their official demo page provides a PDF output via Typst, all done client-side [2]. Furthermore, you get .docx and other output formats as well

[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.9

[2]: https://pandoc.org/app/

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