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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Mohamed Bana <mbana.lists@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: math preview in emacs
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mohamed Bana wrote:

> hi Aditya,
>
> maybe i should have been more explicit in my last email.  auctex supports
> maths preview for latex, i was wondering how far you got on it.

Hi Mohamed,

I did not explore emacs too much. At present for context, I find vim much 
better (simply because I know vim very well). I rarely use latex these 
days, so there is not much incentive to learn emacs. I might look at this 
again in future if I have to use latex in a large project.

One thing that I never understood was why it is hard to port preview-latex 
to ConTeXt, especially for displays. For displays and floats, all preview 
latex does is create a pdf/png; in ConTeXt, we can get that easily by 
using \startTEXpage ... \stopTEXpage around the environment. I assume that 
this would be easy for someone who knows the inner working of AucTeX. For 
me it is a long term project, which I will get to some day.

Best,
Aditya
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