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author | mattkae <mattkae@protonmail.com> | 2022-05-17 07:07:37 -0400 |
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committer | mattkae <mattkae@protonmail.com> | 2022-05-17 07:07:37 -0400 |
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tree | a1f73bba3676f34e0faf76764f5de963321f5576 /elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/preview-todo.texi | |
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diff --git a/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/preview-todo.texi b/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/preview-todo.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..485373e --- /dev/null +++ b/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/doc/preview-todo.texi @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +@ifset rawfile +@include macros.texi +@chapheading Future Development of @previewlatex{} +@end ifset + +@itemize @bullet + +@item Support other formats than just @LaTeX{} + +plain @TeX{} users and @ConTeXt{} users should not have to feel left +out. While @ConTeXt{} is not supported yet by released versions of +@AUCTeX{}, at least supporting plain would help people, and be a start +for @ConTeXt{} as well. There are plain-based formats like MusiX@TeX{} +that could benefit a lot from @previewlatex{}. The main part of the +difficulties here is to adapt @file{preview.dtx} to produce stuff not +requiring @LaTeX{}. + +@item Support nested snippets + +Currently you can't have both a footnote (which gets displayed as just +its footnote number) and math inside of a footnote rendered as an image: +such nesting might be achieved by rerunning @previewlatex{} on the +footnote contents when one opens the footnote for editing. + +@item Support other text properties than just images + +Macros like @samp{\textit} can be rendered as images, but the resulting +humungous blob is not suitable for editing, in particular since the +line filling from LaTeX does not coincide with that of Emacs. It would +be much more useful if text properties just switched the relevant font +to italics rather than replacing the whole text with an image. It +would also make editing quite easier. Then there are things like +footnotes that are currently just replaced by their footnote number. +While editing is not a concern here (the number is not in the original +text, anyway), it would save a lot of conversion time if no images were +generated, but Emacs just displayed a properly fontified version of the +footnote number. Also, this might make @previewlatex{} useful even on +text terminals. + +@item Find a way to facilitate Source Specials + +Probably in connection with adding appropriate support to +@code{dvipng}, it would be nice if clicking on an image from a larger +piece of source code would place the cursor at the respective source +code location. + +@item Make @file{preview.dtx} look reasonable in @AUCTeX{} + +It is a bit embarrassing that @file{preview.dtx} is written in a manner +that will not give either good syntax highlighting or good indentation +when employing @AUCTeX{}. + +@item Web page work + +Currently, @previewlatex{}'s web page is not structured at all. Better +navigation would be desirable, as well as separate News and Errata eye +catchers. + +@item Manual improvements + +@itemize @minus +@item Pepper the manual with screen shots and graphics + +This will be of interest for the @acronym{HTML} and @TeX{} renditions +of the texinfo manual. Since Texinfo now supports images as well, this +could well be nice to have. + +@item Fix duplicates + +Various stuff appears several times. + +@end itemize + +@item Implement rendering pipelines for Emacs + +The current @previewlatex{} interface is fundamentally flawed, not only +because of a broken implementation. A general batchable and +daemonizable rendering infrastructure that can work on all kinds of +preview images for embedding into buffers is warranted. The current +implementation has a rather adhoc flavor and is not easily extended. +It will not work outside of @AUCTeX{}, either. + +@item Integrate into Ref@TeX{} + +When referencing to equations and the like, the preview-images of the +source rather than plain text should be displayed. If the preview in +question covers labels, those should appear in the bubble help and/or a +context menu. Apropos: + +@item Implement @LaTeX{} error indicators + +Previews on erroneous @LaTeX{} passages might gain a red border or similar. + +@item Pop up relevant online documentation for frequent errors + +A lot of errors are of the ``badly configured'' variety. Perhaps the +relevant info pages should be delivered in addition to the error +message. + +@item Implement a table editing mode where every table cell gets output +as a separate preview. Alternatively, output the complete table +metrics in a way that lets people click on individual cells for editing +purposes. + +@item Benchmark and kill Emacs inefficiencies + +Both the @LaTeX{} run under Emacs control as well as actual image +insertion in Emacs could be faster. CVS Emacs has improved in that +respect, but it still is slower than desirable. + +@item Improve image support under Emacs + +The general image and color handling in Emacs is inefficient and partly +defective. This is still the case in CVS. One option would be to +replace the whole color and image handling with @acronym{GDK} routines +when this library is available, since it has been optimized for it. + +@end itemize |