From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38235 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: preview-context Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:22:36 +0100 Message-ID: <476E995C.7060201@wxs.nl> References: <20071223124839.7d40a8a7@gaura-nitai.dyndns.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198430754 5904 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2007 17:25:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:25:54 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 23 18:26:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J6UaU-00065j-8n for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:26:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691A61FBAC; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:25:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06878-05-7; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:25:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F181FB98; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:25:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5C11FBAC for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:25:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06878-05-6 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:25:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD521FB5E for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:24:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 2394 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:23:08 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <20071223124839.7d40a8a7@gaura-nitai.dyndns.org> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:38235 Archived-At: Gour wrote: > Hi! > > I've asked on auctex ml about the prospects of getting preview-context, similar > to preview-latex and here is the reply: > > "There are no ConTeXt users among the active developers (actually, there > is not even much activity in the LaTeX area, but the status quo is > rather more advanced). As long as that does not change, I don't see > much of a point to talk vapour." > > (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.general/2387) > > Since I plan to move to ConTeXt using AUCTeX, I'm interested to hear if > there is some interest here (amongst emacs users) to have preview-context > withing AUCTeX package? > > otoh, I'm interested if there is newer version of etexshow > (Browser for ConTeXt commands) ? in my opinion previewing contradicts symbolic markup (apart maybe from special subconstructs); anyhow, because context sometimes relies on multipass info, previewing is no option unless on fast machines at some point mkiv may provide proper hooks and functionality for partial previewing (e.g. when we can store intermediate states properly) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________