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Hi all — solo developer here, not a lawyer, but I spent enough time watching a friend in her LLM lose an evening to Word eating her ibids that I built the thing she wished she had.
It's called LexTyp. Free, runs locally (Win/Mac/Linux), no account, no cloud. https://broccoli-97.github.io/lextyp-tauri/
What it actually does that Word + Zotero doesn't:
- Type /citation → pick from your .bib → properly formatted OSCOLA footnote in the live PDF preview as you
type
- Tracks ibid and short-form across the document automatically — the part Zotero gets wrong about half the
time
- Defaults to 12pt Times, 1.5 line spacing, 2.54cm margins — no template fiddling
- Compiles the PDF in milliseconds (uses Typst under the hood, not LaTeX — no toolchain to install)
- Also does APA / Harvard / Chicago / IEEE if a module marker is being weird about it
What it isn't:
- Not Word — your supervisor can't track-changes the source file
- Not Overleaf — runs locally, nothing leaves your laptop
- No Bluebook — sorry to anyone on a US exchange
- The Mac build isn't code-signed yet, so it'll yell at you on first open (right-click → Open)
I'd genuinely rather hear "this broke when I tried X with my dissertation chapter" than get downloads from people who never use it. If anyone's drafting something OSCOLA-heavy right now and willing to throw it real footnotes, I'd love the bug reports.
Happy to answer anything in the comments.
u/Best-Pilot7391 — 17 days ago