On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:29:00 -0500 (EST)
Aditya Mahajan
I disagree. I was grately impressed by preview-latex when I tried it (around 2 years ago), so much so that I even considered moving to emacs from vim. It is extremely useful for mathematics and images: you can see the typeset result rather than a bunch of code. This means that you can proofread in the editor rather than a pdf (or dvi) reader.
Besides the above use-cases (I do not need math), I'm thinking about the tables - having some visual help can, imho, help a lot.
What is needed for an improved support of preview-latex in context? Last time I looked into preview.sty, I could not understand how it works. If I were to do the same thing, this is how I would do it.
Run context with a custom module, which writes the content of each \startformula <formula> \stopformula into a temporary file as \startTEXpage \startformula <formula> \stopformula \stopTEXpage. Lilypond and gnuplot modules already do something similar. Then process the temporary tex file. You will get a pdf file with one formula on each page. Convert each page into png, and use some lisp magic to insert the image at appropriate places in the buffer. Obviously I am missing a lot of things. But, am I correct in assuming that from the context end, the problem is simple?
Thank you for your insight... Let me become more familiar with the emacs and Context first, then we can take a closer look at elisp & preview-latex... Sincerely, Gour