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Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX

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From: Kresten Krab Thorup
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 12:46
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>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?

No, this is not possible with the current (and presumably final)
version of TeX.  And this, for several reasons:

TeX's output, the dvi file, is structured at a per-page basis.  This
means, that in order to make it do what you want, you'll have to
re-format exactly one page, and then replace that page in the dvi
file.
	This is not possible though, given the fact that your changes
(which you'd like to have updated) is likely to change the
layout/contents of the current page

What one could do, though, is to re-format on a per-chapter basis, and
then somehow `link' the chapters together to form one big dvi file.
LaTeX's \include command does half of what's needed to do this (i.e.
transfer the environment, page number etc., from chapter to chapter),
but we still need some general management of this feature, and a
linker.

/Kresten
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From: krab@iesd.auc.dk (Kresten Krab Thorup)
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Subject: Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX
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Date: 9 Apr 92 12:46:32 GMT
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