On 14-04-2005 03:39, Paul McCann wrote:
For what it's worth, the synchronisation behaviour here isn't the same as Flashmode (a la Claus Gerhardt's work): the latter provides "real time processing" of the input file, so that you see what you're producing as you type. That is, the file is being processed behind the scenes, and changes to the pdf file are produced on the fly.
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. LaTeX can do a pretty good job if you don't meddle with it or try to force it to do things. A while ago, I wrote a paper and once it was finished I had to do some touches here and there to perfect the layout (change some sentences to get nice word breaking), but that was it.
Jeroen.