On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
Gour wrote:
Hi!
I've asked on auctex ml about the prospects of getting preview-context, similar to preview-latex and here is the reply:
"There are no ConTeXt users among the active developers (actually, there is not even much activity in the LaTeX area, but the status quo is rather more advanced). As long as that does not change, I don't see much of a point to talk vapour."
(see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.general/2387)
Since I plan to move to ConTeXt using AUCTeX, I'm interested to hear if there is some interest here (amongst emacs users) to have preview-context withing AUCTeX package?
otoh, I'm interested if there is newer version of etexshow (Browser for ConTeXt commands) ?
in my opinion previewing contradicts symbolic markup (apart maybe from special subconstructs); anyhow, because context sometimes relies on multipass info, previewing is no option unless on fast machines
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. 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? Aditya