Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> writes: > I think what is wanting in preview is a way to keep the preview images > persistent across reopening files (or even better, across restarting > emacs). Generating the previews is time-consuming, in particular for a > big document. I find it counter-productive every time the file is > reopened, previews have to be regenerated. Maybe the way I work with > preview is wrong. I wonder why nobody else has noticed this issue, it is > productivity killer for me. > > One thing that preview can be extremely helpful is in math. Directly > typing the math formulae is easy (even easier than using a gui equation > editor), however editing it is a nightmare because I doubt most people > will be able to figure out what the formula is by staring at the > LaTeX/TeX code for a moderate complex one. But knowing that the previews > will be gone if the file is closed, I usually just recompile the file to > save time. (but you can imagine, if one can pick those complex formulae > and turn them into previews and if they can survive reopening files, how > much more efficient it will be.) > > Fortunately, branching in git is cheap. I now create a local branch for > the chapter I am working on, make changes so that only that chapter is > produced in the output to somewhat avoid recompile the whole project > each time.
Yes, you're right. My idea was to put all intermediate files into one folder (not to clean them), for example ~/.auctex/temp/. It _IS_ possible with backup files and temporary files generated by autosave (normally saved in ./auto/). It is convenient. You have _all_ intermediate files generated for _all_ documents in one (or few) folders and not in every folder in which you make document. _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
