Hi, This is my concern too… and the reason for me to ask if we have someone onboard with enough experience in AucTeX and latex-preview to give a full pros and cons for using it (or not). Regarding font management (see parallel thread on this), the situation is a slight bit better, because there we may come up with a sequence of laTeX commands that just works for almost all situations and use that for our “hard-wired” default font management, eventually for pidflatex and lualatex (at least).
But in this case, there are so many whistles to blow before we come up with the tune, that I prefer a full discussion like this one. And be it just to decide to leave this as preparatory work for a perfect future where all road-blocks are lifted. Let’s continue enumerating road-blocks ;-) Best, /PA > El 10 abr 2025, a las 22:47, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> > escribió: > > Juergen Fenn <jf...@gmx.net> writes: > >> Am 10.04.25 um 07:59 Uhr schrieb Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez: >>> Now the question seems to be whether latex-preview could "live an >>> independent life" with pdflatex at the heart of it's tooling, whereas >>> document production could "move on" to use lualatex as the default tool >>> to generate the PDFs. >> >> I think this idea should be considered. I would only like to add that I >> have not used latex-preview so far. > > I worry that this could cause inconsistencies, voiding part of the > advantage of quick experimentation with preview when the result then > doesn’t work well with the full compile. > > In that case, you’d be back to running the full compile multiple times > even though latex-preview should make just that unnecessary for complex > local code (like equations). > > Best wishes, > Arne > -- > Unpolitisch sein > heißt politisch sein, > ohne es zu merken. > draketo.de
