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- From: epstein@sparc9.cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein)
- Subject: Re: Lightning TeXtures !!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.021545.6738@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Keywords: I am amazed!
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:15:45 GMT
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- My first attempt to post this failed, due to some nn/news flakiness at
- my site -- apologies if it gets posted twice.
-
- In <l7e56tINN880@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
-
- >Now, I know that Blue Sky Research did not intend Lightning TeXtures
- >as a hacker's tool, but it sure can be used that way.
- >
- >(For those of you who havent' heard of LT: it is a very fast -- assembler ! --
- >implementation of TeX that continually reformats your input and displays
- >this in the preview window. Every time you press a key, I think.)
-
- Are there any problems caused when you are in the middle of typing in
- some block of code, so at some points the file will not be complete,
- correct tex/latex code, and if tex/latex is run then, you will get
- errors (and the previewer may barf)?
-
- (I use latex, but it would seem that you would have a similar problems
- with tex.)
-
- Currently, I use (Ed Reingold's) tex-mode in emacs, so while I'm
- editing, I have xdvi running, and periodically run latex on the file
- from within emacs (xdvi automatically looks at the new .dvi file).
-
- I was thinking of writing some emacs code that automatically runs
- latex on the file every so often (perhaps when it auto-saves). The
- above situation seemed like it would cause problems, though (e.g. if
- when it runs latex, I am in the middle of entering a block, so I might
- not have the appropriate \end or whatever, and latex -- and probably
- xdvi -- will barf).
-
- --
- Milt Epstein
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Illinois
- epstein@cs.uiuc.edu
-