On Dec 30, 2004, at 12:14, Ivar Åsell wrote:
[...] The main point here is that I which to see the pdf without having to save my .tex-file.
Would someone help me with this?
You can do this as a command. TeX can't write to stdout nor can Preview load from stdin, but you can do this command(s):
rm /tmp/texput.pdf pdflatex -output-directory /tmp [ -f /tmp/texput.pdf ] && open -a Preview.app /tmp/texput.pdf
Standard in: Entire document Standard out: Discard
This should show your document as tex/pdf w/o requiring it to be asved. You may also want to use the '-file-line-error' option and use the separate window to parse the errors so that you can jump directly to the erroneous line -- I haven't experimented with it myself yet, since it has been a while since I last wrote a longer report in LaTeX ;)