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grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Mats G L|fdahl) writes:

>"Local" changes could result in "local" recompilation, ie. if you just
>add text or fomulas in one paragraph, you would only have to recompile
>that very paragraph. This would be possibel with option iii turned
>off. Normally, you don't care about page breaks until your text is
>(almost) finished anyway.

I currently do this within Emacs (on un*x) as follows:

1) Make sure that the document has a well-defined preamble where all
   macro definitions are located.

2) Set up the TeX-region variables to recognise this.  I do as follows
   in my .emacs file

	(setq TeX-mode-hook
	      '(lambda ()
		 ;...
	         ;; AMS-TeX setup for TeX-region...
		 ;;
		 (setq TeX-directory ".")
		 (setq TeX-dvi-print-command "dvipreview")
	         (setq TeX-start-of-header "\\documentstyle")
	         (setq TeX-end-of-header "\\document\n")
	         (setq TeX-trailer "\\enddocument")
		 ))

   where "dvipreview" is this shell script:

	#!/bin/sh
	# dvipreview: activate dvi previewer on file in background...
	xdvi $* &

   (substitute your favorite previewer for xdvi).

Now I can use the commands

	M-h C-c C-r		TeX current paragraph
	C-c C-p			start previewer

where I only have to start the previewer once for each session.

If you insert page breaks (^L or whatever matches the page-delimiter
regexp) then you will find 

	C-x C-p C-c C-r		TeX current page

useful as well.

--kris@diku.dk

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