On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 06:09:29PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 10:33:26PM -0500, John Weiss wrote:
>
> Maybe on one of the newfangled web pages under production we can show Lyx
> running on top of (and obscuring only a *portion* of) a gv window
> displaying a fully rendered -- "better than WYSIWYG" -- version of what
> the user's working on. With a relatively fast machine, fully rendered
> is just seconds away at any point. It took me a little getting used to
> this, but now I see no reason to try and squeeze the features mentioned
> above out of LyX.
I was about to say that this is a brilliant idea, when I went to check the
screenshot page & saw that it's already got an xdvi shot. I don't know why
you'd bother to compile to postscript every time, when you can just look at
the dvi instead. Anyway, (Mike, I assume you're listening here) it might be
worth mentioning along with the dvi picture that you can have the dvi display
running while you run LyX, so that it performs the same job (but better) as
commercial Print Previews.
> I suppose someone might look into a feature that reruns
> LaTeX on only a certain size block surrounding the current cursor
> position, for users working on hundred page tomes ...
I think we discussed this wrt reLyX. I don't think LaTeX will let you run on a
small piece. If you've got a \begin{verbatim} before the piece they try to
compile, then everything will break, for example. The solution in this case is
to use included files, which you can LaTeX separately.
-Amir
