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In article <CrCBxw.ML7@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
Richard B. Wicks <wicks@cs.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>	Somebody told me that there is a program called TexCad (or CadTex 
>or some combination thereof) that will interpret your TeX code as you type
>it out and display it on an X11 window, is this true?
>
>	Equation editing is far from being intrinsic to me and I would like
>the aid of such a program in adjusting to the language.  *ANY* imput would
>be most helpful.

Yes, there is a program called TeX-CAD (or texcad, or whatever), but it is
intended to serve an entirely different purpose: You can do drawings
(i.e. CAD: Computer Aided Design) consisting of some elementary tokens
provided by LaTeX (lines, circles, etc.) and then convert the results
into LaTeX code that can be included in your (LaTeX-) file.

I suppose that instead of this you are looking for some program to have
the typeset formulas on your screen *immediately* after typing.
This is (for reasons on which I won't waste precious bandwidth explaining
here) not the philosophy of TeX or LaTeX. So you might consider to use
a wordprocessor (or DTP program, as they call it), that gives you that
feel of "What you see is what you get".

On the other hand, there *are* some implementations of TeX or LaTeX
that indeed simplify (and therefore accelerate) that inherent editing -
compiling - viewing cycle such that from within your editor you can start
[La]TeX and the previewer with few keystrokes/mouse clicks. This depends
largely on what kind of machine you are using.

Tobias Ulmer <zccz1121@rpool1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
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