Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Symbol visualization in vim-latex

[Srinath A. <sri...@gm...>]

Hi Fabio,

On 4/14/06, Fabio Stumbo <f.s...@un...> wrote:
>
> 1)Using gvim to edit a tex file, is it possible to have in some way
> a previsualization of the output of a math symbol?  The menus under
> Tex-math let you see only the name of a macro, not the actual symbol.
> Or, for this, am I forced to use other editors like kile?

Well, at one time I seriously thought of including the functionality of
unilatex.vim:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3D284

into latex-suite. However, I never found the time or inclination. The
problem is that working with a non-compilable version of the file always
and only writing out the actual compilable version during a :write
seemed to be somewhat risky. What if Vim (or latex-suite or the terminal
or the remote connection or any number of things) crashed in the middle
of the edit session. In this case, the file is effectively tainted...

Ofcourse, its probably not such a hard thing to repair it, but the whole
thing sounded a little risky. And after a while, since no-one else
expressed any interest, I sort of let it go.

> 2)Is there a way to have the window splitted into two buffer so that in t=
he
> other buffer you have tex-math symbols?
>

Well, this seems safer. Maybe a scratch buffer which is scroll-locked
with the current buffer which shows a symbolic version of the current
file. However, there is a problem with continuously updating it with
every keystroke. So the implementation of this will be much harder. Vim
does not provide onKeyPress() like functions, so the updating will have
to be done by mapping every key... In short quite hard.

> 3)Is there a similar package for editing plain tex files?
>

Well, what part of latex-suite is plaintex incompatible?

Thanks,
Srinath