[Vim-latex-devel] Features like preview-latex

[Aditya M. <ad...@um...>]

Hi,
 I really find latex suite really useful. I work on latex a lot, started
with lyx, but once I got familiar with the code, shifted to gvim (which
happens to be my favourite editor). I was just browsing and came though
this package for preview-latex (http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net/) for
xemacs, and by the look of it, it looks really impressive.
 The main feature that I am concerned about is the ability to display
math. I always liked that feature in lyx also. I am wondering, why it can
not be done in (g)vim. I think that one could use a unicode encoding for
the file and replace \sum by sigma from unicode and go about it. The only
problem that I see is that vim does not allow one to use different fonts
and different font sizes for different lines (after all it is a humble
text editor). But how about something like this,
 detect when you are in math mode and keep three lines for display for
each math mode (or open the display in another preview window and keep
three line in that) with subscripts and superscripts going at respective
places. The main advantage is that if there is a sytax error, you will
know immediately and will not always have to compile to see how it looks
like.

Just musing...

Cheers
aditya