Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-26 Thread Alan Schmitt
kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: where can I find documentation about creating a package? (info (elisp) Packaging) Double thanks: for the links, and for making me notice that my info was showing me some things from an old emacs. Alan

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Torsten Wagner
Hi, just in a coincidence, I looked into Whizzytex [1] a few days ago. This minor mode opens up a pdf-viewer and keeps it updated with literally every keystroke within the tex-file. (Yes xpdf works, albeit the website and emacswiki only describe dvi and ps as backends). In addition, it adds some

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Schmitt
Hello, torsten.wag...@gmail.com writes: Would it be an option to implement something like WhizzyTex for org-mode? Thus you would have the easiness of org-mode syntax (which is enough for many cases) with an realtime update of the export to PDF. This would be wonderful. I happen to know

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
On Nov 22 2013, Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: Hello all, I have been using a simple bash script with a Makefile to make pdf file to be updated with org source on each save while I am editing. It is working fine for me. Of course its not exactly real time but fast enough feedback for me. I am

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Torsten Wagner
Hi Alan, nice, you might can start easily asking him to solve the installer problem and provide an package for a ELPA repository. That alone would allow much more people to use it. I think the main problem for org-mode would be the fact that org-mode-PDF is a two step approach. Org-mode exports

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Alan Schmitt
Hi Torsten, torsten.wag...@gmail.com writes: Hi Alan, nice, you might can start easily asking him to solve the installer problem and provide an package for a ELPA repository. That alone would allow much more people to use it. Regarding this very first request: where can I find

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Alan Schmitt writes: Regarding this very first request: where can I find documentation about creating a package? I searched for create ELPA package, and I got links such as http://tromey.com/elpa/upload.html which tells me package.el is pedantic about the header and footer comments, please

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Feng Shu
Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala h...@yagnesh.org writes: On Nov 22 2013, Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: Hello all, I have been using a simple bash script with a Makefile to make pdf file to be updated with org source on each save while I am editing. It is working fine for me. Of course its not

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-25 Thread Jambunathan K
Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: where can I find documentation about creating a package? (info (elisp) Packaging)

[O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-22 Thread Bastien
Dear all, Richard Stallman started a thread on emacs-devel on how to let Emacs do WYSIWG word processing: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word processing. That is why we added text properties

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-22 Thread Rasmus
Bastien b...@gnu.org writes: Dear all, Richard Stallman started a thread on emacs-devel on how to let Emacs do WYSIWG word processing: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word processing.

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Bastien b...@gnu.org writes: Hi Bastien How far are we from allowing users to preview an exported Org buffer into a separate window, and displaying either a PDF or an ODT document through DocView? not sure about Org preview, but when using AucTex, Evince updates automatically when

Re: [O] Near real-time preview of PDF/ODT export?

2013-11-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:30:18PM +0100, Rasmus wrote: Personally, I'd want to use Evince and not Docview. Does Docview notice changes in the pdf? Only with auto-revert-mode on. I prefer Evince over Docview too. Docview wait times can be significant when the pdf is large (~30), or when