Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmaga...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> For syntax highlighting in LaTeX environments you can use
>>>
>>> (setq org-highlight-latex-and-related '(native))
>>
>> Ok, thanks, that works nicely. Why isn't that the default?
>
> Ihor, I'm curious to know if the fontification of LaTeX export blocks
> suffers from the same performance issues as setting
> org-highlight-latex-and-related to '(native).
I just checked, and I believe that it should not.
At least, export blocks are not using that crazy regexp for matching.
>> So this observation is really about my work-style, and why I prefer to
>> use export latex blocks.
>
> `org-cdlatex-mode' provides several ways to quick-insert environments
> and LaTeX macros. With this mode enabled, there are many equivalents of
> C-c C-e in LaTeX buffers:
>
> - C-c {
> - Type in "beg" and press TAB
> - Type in "env" and press TAB
+1
I do not think that trying to replicate org-cdlatex in Org mode is a
good idea.
>> The question about why export latex blocks are not available for preview
>> remains.
>
> This requires changes in several places across org-latex-preview.el, but
> they can be made available if Ihor thinks they should. To minimize
> breaking changes, in the LaTeX preview rewrite we are following the
> previous org-latex-preview behavior, which ignores export LaTeX blocks.
That will be a new user-facing feature. Not a big deal given that you
are already rolling out a new big user-facing feature.
We may be extra safe and also give some kind of toggle to control which
block types to preview. But I do not think that it is necessary.
I am much more concerned about affects on export and other
non-interactive behaviors. That's were people may be caught by surprise
and get things broken. Changes in interactive behavior are much more
obvious and will be noticed.
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