[TxMt] TM & Latex

[Jeroen van der Ham]

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.
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