On 14-04-2005 11:44, Mark Smith wrote:
Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
This is very nice and all, but it kinda goes against the philosophy behind LaTeX, which is to seperate content from representation. So that you can focus on the content first and on the layout later.
I know that everyone has used Word and is used to doing both at the same time. But LaTeX takes the layout of the whole document into account, so doing layout when you're halfway finished is a bit silly.
It sounds like you are making assumptions about how people use Flashmode and about which people use it.
small adjustment process the file preview the file don't like it small adjustment process the file preview the file better, but still not perfect small adjustment etc.cycle ?
I have - and not only with TeXen. I can only imagine that its a rare coding God who wouldn't benefit from this at all.
True, but the pdfsync utility described before and TextMate scripting ability is a sufficient solution for that, at least for me.
Otherwise you're just relying on tinkering with it so long that it works and not understanding what is really happening.
As for beginning users for LaTeX, I'd recommend not using TextMate, but TeXShop instead. Provides all the useful macros in a very easy way and includes one button preview as well.
Jeroen.