Hello, I am a developer working with TeX/LaTeX, and inspired by seeing the Instant Preview feature of LyX (on Window in particular), am rather curious how this works. A few specific questions:
* Is the default or a custom TeX distribution used for preview rendering? * On Windows, there is no such thing as a TeX daemon. What is your way around this; do you re-run TeX and suffer the startup time cost each time? * How does Instant Preview communicate with (La)TeX and thus get an image on screen? I know the TeX Daemon on Unix does everything via pipes, but what about this case? (I'm guessing a DVI file is still generated somewhere.) If anyone familiar with the implementation of Instant Preview could provide me with such information, it would be much appreciated.
