Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmaga...@gmail.com> writes: >> Abstracting away previews is certainly welcome. >> RMS explicitly asked Org mode team to work towards this goal: >> https://list.orgmode.org/e1kikxv-0007iy...@fencepost.gnu.org/ > > I recently spent some time on this feature (LaTeX previews in all > major-modes) and produced a few prototypes. You can see some demos in > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44X_th6_oY [1]
Thanks! Also, talking about calc previews... there is https://github.com/johnbcoughlin/calctex > The way support for other major modes works right now is based on the > following observation: The `org-latex-preview' feature uses a tiny > subset of the `org-element' API. Specifically, it uses only the > functions > > - `org-element-context' > - `org-element-property', referring to the properties :value, > :begin and :end, and optionally :post-blank and :post-affiliated > - `org-element-type', which returns either latex-fragment, > latex-environment or any other symbol I think that it will be better to reuse thingatpt.el to retrieve object boundaries: fragments and sections. > In addition, it uses two functions to generate the preamble and find > section bounds: > > - `org-latex-preview--get-preamble' > - `org-latex-preview--section-bounds' For preamble, we may simply use buffer-local variable. Something like (defvar-local latex-preview-make-preamble-function #'latex-preview-default-preamble ...) Then, major modes may set it as needed. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
