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Article #885Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX
From: Kresten Krab Thorup
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 12:46
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!krab From: krab@iesd.auc.dk (Kresten Krab Thorup) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX Message-ID: <KRAB.92Apr9134632@tejst.iesd.auc.dk> Date: 9 Apr 92 12:46:32 GMT References: <UdrBqnf0_ek1QZUk48@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Apr6.024326.1374@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> <GRODAN.92Apr7122044@cyklop.nada.kth.se> <1992Apr7.123552.26756@odin.diku.dk> <GRODAN.92Apr8103824@cyklop.nada.kth.se> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se's message of 8 Apr 92 09:38:24 GMT