Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.
And it's free and open source.
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Zettlr! Its designed around writing manuscripts in markdown+latex, then exporting to pure LaTeX, PDF, or any other Pandoc-supported format via a builtin Pandoc GUI. The only thing that doesn't work particularly well is the table editor, but they're working on it.
It is electron based, but almost all graphical editors for markdown + inline latex are (obsidian, etc.) because MathJax & KaTeX are the most mature method to render LaTeX inside other document formats.
Obsidian is also good, but it's not FOSS and their built-in export isn't great.
I think something like Apostrophe might work for you.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe
Looks suspiciously like https://github.com/marktext/marktext
Edit: Ignore please, the project is dead
Obsidian?
Or sublime text, but no preview and render using pandoc command, can define as build parameter.
What is inline latex? Do you just mean math, or do you really use latex functions?
Do you really have to use latex or can't you already migrate to typst?
For raw markdown I can recommend any text editor I guess. I use vscode/codium the most.
Math, particularly snippets from larger manuscripts and documentation thrown around between colleagues. Can't really predict when they send a .tex and when they send a .md for review.
Vscode is a good one. You may want eto use extensions. You can then drop texstudio as well.
If you are looking for WYSIWYG, marktext is great. But there are lots of markdown editors.
Iirc, Kde also published one last year which looked neat
If you are curious, zed might be the editor of the future.
Typora and Zettlr i think?
Ive started writing in typst. Its simple enough when doing not so complicated things, but an entire ecosystem is available the moment I want to do something complicated. But it does not have LOCAL graphical editor, but there is an online version you can use. Ive never tried it.