![]() Many PDF and DVI viewers update their display automatically when changes occur in the file they are displaying. ![]() In any case, there are plenty of times when you do need to care (like with messy equations, or in the final stages of editing when you're cleaning up bad line breaks and whatnot) and a truly realtime preview would save a lot of time. I would actually argue the opposite - seeing the choices TeX is making in realtime just reassures you that you can put the typesetting out of your mind and have faith in TeX. You could even argue against this feature on the grounds that it would encourage bad habits. I don't dispute that you should not typically worry about the preview. (Note that this is the way the StackOverflow editor works.) Seeing a realtime preview does not make LaTeX WYSIWYG - you are still editing the plain text source. Which, yes, for technical writing is a terrible idea. WYSIWYG means hiding the source from you so that what you are editing appears like the final output. Realtime previewing (like StackOverflow does!) does not mean WYSIWYG. ![]() It doesn't seem to have anything like the "preview continuously" option, though that could be added with something like this: Using latexmk is nice even without the -pvc option since it automatically compiles (including bibtex) as many times as necessary.Īdded: How to set up latexmk and Skim for near realtime LaTeXĪdded: Here's something similar to latexmk, written in python: If you have a pdf viewer that autorefreshes the pdf view (Skim on Mac OSX does this) then you can see a refreshed preview every time you hit save. I recommend latexmk which, with -pvc switch (for "preview continuously"), will recompile (as many times as necessary) whenever the source changes.
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