From: Gour <ggdasa@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: preview-context
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:52:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071224075211.74a99370@gaura-nitai.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0712231916230.11105@nqv-yncgbc>
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:29:00 -0500 (EST)
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> I disagree. I was grately impressed by preview-latex when I tried it
> (around 2 years ago), so much so that I even considered moving to
> emacs from vim. It is extremely useful for mathematics and images:
> you can see the typeset result rather than a bunch of code. This
> means that you can proofread in the editor rather than a pdf (or dvi)
> reader.
Besides the above use-cases (I do not need math), I'm thinking about the
tables - having some visual help can, imho, help a lot.
> What is needed for an improved support of preview-latex in context?
> Last time I looked into preview.sty, I could not understand how it
> works. If I were to do the same thing, this is how I would do it.
>
> Run context with a custom module, which writes the content of each
> \startformula <formula> \stopformula into a temporary file as
> \startTEXpage \startformula <formula> \stopformula \stopTEXpage.
> Lilypond and gnuplot modules already do something similar. Then
> process the temporary tex file. You will get a pdf file with one
> formula on each page. Convert each page into png, and use some lisp
> magic to insert the image at appropriate places in the buffer.
> Obviously I am missing a lot of things. But, am I correct in assuming
> that from the context end, the problem is simple?
Thank you for your insight...
Let me become more familiar with the emacs and Context first, then we can take a
closer look at elisp & preview-latex...
Sincerely,
Gour
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-24 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-23 11:48 preview-context Gour
2007-12-23 12:46 ` preview-context Roger Mason
2007-12-24 6:46 ` preview-context Gour
2007-12-23 16:20 ` preview-context Patrick Gundlach
2007-12-24 6:48 ` preview-context Gour
2007-12-23 17:22 ` preview-context Hans Hagen
2007-12-24 0:29 ` preview-context Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-24 6:52 ` Gour [this message]
2007-12-24 8:32 ` preview-context Hans Hagen
2007-12-23 17:41 ` preview-context Jean Magnan de Bornier
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