Watching for Changes

Tytanic does not currently support a watch sub command the same way typst does. However, you can work around this by using watchexec or an equivalent tool which re-runs Tytanic whenever a file in your project changes.

Let's look at a concrete example with watchexec. Navigate to your project root directory, i.e. that which contains your typst.toml manifest and run:

watchexec \
  --watch . \
  --clear \
  --ignore 'tests/**/diff/**' \
  --ignore 'tests/**/out/**' \
  --ignore 'tests/**/ref/**' \
  "tt run"

Of course a shell alias or task runner definition makes this more convenient. While this is running, any change to a file in your project which is not excluded by the patterns proivided using the --ignore flag will trigger a re-run of tt run.

If you have other files you may edit which don't influence the outcome of your test suite, then you should ignore them too.