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Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX

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From: Mats G L|fdahl
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 09:38
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I wrote:

   >"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.

Kristoffer H. Rose wrote:

   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.

Yes, I understand that the kind of environment I'd like to see perhaps
is not possible for a general TeX document. Restricting the use to
LaTeX and Plain TeX with all the definitions in a preamble would be
okey for me. That's what I have most of the time anyway.

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

   [...]


OK, so the local compilation is possible. If I understood you right,
after issuing the correct set of commands inside Emacs, your previewer
will display the compiled version of the paragraph you choose.

What I would want is the entire document to be shown in the previewer
all the time, with only the edited paragraph updated at command. If
you could then add text in both windows...

More comments please. Is it possible?

	/Mats


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