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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Lightning TeXtures !!!
- Keywords: I am amazed!
- Message-ID: <l7io6iINN31r@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:48:34 GMT
- References: <l7e56tINN880@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <1992Jul31.021545.6738@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
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- In article <1992Jul31.021545.6738@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>, epstein@sparc9.cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein) writes:
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- |> In <l7e56tINN880@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
-
- |> >(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)?
-
- Yes, you do get errors, and no, the previewer does not barf. Kudos to the
- programmers at Blue Sky for this. All errors show up in a log window,
- and I found this continuous string of error msgs somewhat disconcerting,
- but then I clicked shut the log window, and it didn't bother me
- anymore.
-
- |> 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).
-
- Same idea, only not automatically performed.
-
- |> 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).
-
- Quite likely. On an incomplete TeX file you will simply not get
- a dvi file. Another synchronization problem:
- The postamble of a dvi file contains a lot of information
- and although I've seen some previewers (I remember one on the Atari ST)
- that could handle incomplete dvi files, most of them give up.
-
- |> Milt Epstein
-
- Victor.
-