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Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX

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From: Mats G L|fdahl
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:29
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I wrote:

   >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?

Kresten Krab Thorup writes:

   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.

Only if you want to keep track of the page breaks. I usually don't
care about them until the document is almost finished.

	/Mats
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