Hi all. I've been lurking since the creation of this list. Here's a project that I dream about:
I am a mathematician and as such I write a lot of LaTeX. AucTeX and Preview are very nice packages and they make Emacs my favourite TeX editor. AucTeX adds lots of convenience to writing TeX, just think of any good package for programming language support, and Preview takes parts of a document, typesets them on the fly and replaces the TeX code with the results. This works often, but it really starts TeX for every single job. Therefore, the replacements are far from instantaneous, even without loading all of the nice LaTeX packages I like to use. What I have in mind is something similar for Climacs. I want a Climacs that * has functionality similar to AucTeX * shows TeX source and can replace it with TeX output * does that using any included TeX packages * uses only TeX source Mostly the last two points are keeping me from using TeXmacs. The last one is the killer since it is necessary for cooperation with other people. Same for LyX. I imagine that Climacs is, because of the nice McCLIM layer in the background, more suitable than Emacs to using TeX output in the editor. I further imagine that the PyTeX **TeX daemon** makes the instantaneous Texing possible. See http://www.pytex.org So, why don't I just start programming? A) I suck at getting things off the ground. B) I need people with Climacs and McCLIM experience, at least for a sample program to demonstrate how to display TeX output in Climacs. The perfect situation for me: Someone leads such a project, many people program and I program, too. Cheers, Tucho _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
