Re: [AUCTeX] preview-latex on Fedora Core 4

[Alejandro Jakubi]

> Uh, disagree.  It is easier to keep a control key pressed during the
> sequence rather than release it in the middle.

Sure it could be worse, but I would rather prefer that frequently used 
operations be assigned to single or double keys at most. And this is the 
way I have configured my "default" Windows editor (TSEPro). It allows 
mapping operations to almost any key combinations. In a previous message 
you seemed to imply that Emacs allows only limited combinations. I do not 
know yet exactly which combinations are available.

> > Emacs.Font: -b&h-luxi 
mono-medium-r-normal--14-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
> >
> > in my .Xresources. This is (apparently) the same font that I have (by
> > default) in my consoles and editors, but characters display much worse
> > and with smaller interline separation.
>
> Are you sure that is the right syntax?  I have in my .Xresources just

Apparently it is right, though not sure as the documentation
of Emacs and X is not very illuminating on this matter.

> Emacs.font: 10x20

Eg. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias has the line:

10x20        -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1

and emacs --font seems to produce the same result with either of them. 
Indeed, fonts of the misc foundry display fine. The problem occurs with 
Type 1 fonts as those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1. Emacs renders 
them very bad.

But (currently installed) misc fonts are not good enough for me:

1. 10x20 is too large as it makes Emacs window not to fit inside the 
display (with 1024x768). And the inmediatelly smaller font, 9x15 is rather 
small, in particular for preview mode. Perhaps there are intermediate size 
fonts available for download.

2. misc fonts are too wide for my taste. I prefer characters with a bit 
smaller width/hight ratio. I note however that AUCTeX displays sub and 
supra index charatcters in a narrower font. This could be an issue.

> I feel more comfortable with being responsible for every byte of my
> source code instead of trying to figure out how I can coax a complex
> system to output what I want.

For this reason I would not call LyX an editor.

> Well, LyX is one, and then there are a few converters for different
> languages and systems using it and/or dvipng, like tbookdtd
> <URL:http://tbookdtd.sf.net> or WeBWorK.  However, those are not
> editors, but conversion frameworks.

Hence I would say that preview is not implemented in any other editor 
besides Emacs.

I beleive that the editor mentioned above does not have a graphics display 
engine suitable for an implementation of a preview mode. Anyway, I do not 
loose hope that this could change in the future, or that Emacs allows much 
more key combinations...

Regards, Alejandro Jakubi