WhizzyTeX
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An Emacs minor mode for
incremental viewing of
LaTeX documents.
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WhizzyTeX provides a minor mode for
Emacs or XEmacs, a (bash) shell-script daemon and some LaTeX macros. It
works under Unix with gv and xdvi viewers, but the
Active-DVI viewer will provide
much better visual effects and will offer more functionalities.
Versions
The current version is
whizzytex-1.3.5.tgz
(see Announce).
The previous stable version is
whizzytex-1.3.1.tgz
(see CHANGES).
There is also a working version
(see last update), which you should only use if you
wish to test or experiment with new features. In particular, this may
contain serious bugs.
Some older versions are still available.
Requirements
WhizzyTeX runs on Unix-based
platforms (you may still see the FAQ for
unsupported use with Cygwin). It requires LaTeX, Bash, either Emacs
or XEmacs, and at least one viewer, which could be DVI-based such as
xdvi or advi (Active-DVI) or Postscript-based such as
gv provided you also have a DVI to Postsctipt converter such as
dvips). However, the advanced features of WhizzyTeX only works for
Active-DVI previewer,
version 1.6.0 or higher.
Documentation
Installation and user manual are available in
HTML,
PDF, or
PS, or
DVI formats.
Most of the documentation is also available as online Emacs help
(via help for the function whizzytex-mode and following hyper-links).
See also the FAQ.
Send bugs to
whizzytex-bugs@inria.fr
Join the users'
mailing list.
Disclaimer
WhizzyTeX is still under development and may contain dangerous bugs.
You may wish to save copies of the file (and of the whole directory you
are working in) before WhizzyTeX-ing.
Viewers
Both xdvi (for viewing DVI) and gv (for viewing
Postscript) are likely to be installed by default. WhizzyTeX should
correctly work with both of them (xdvi is faster, but does not
correctly render colors and Postscript). However, when reloading a file,
both of then first clean the page, and redraw online. Even though
xdvi is quite fast, this produces a flashing effect that may be
annoying or worse make you feel a little unconfortable.
Thus, we highly recommend the use of
Active-DVI,
a DVI viewer written in OCaml.
Active-DVI redraws a page in a background pixmap, and only display the
completely formatted output. This avoids flashing, even on slow computers.
Furthermore, WhizzyTeX can take advantage of some more advances
capabilities of Active-DVI and enable more features. For instance, it will
then automatically turn pages of the viewer to display the page containing
the cursor in Emacs, or conversely, adjust the Emacs cursor to the source
file position when you click in the viewer window.
In addition, Active-DVI also offers facilities for presentations that
goes beyong the simple viewing of a file, and it can be advantageously used
for talks with annimations.
Copyright
WhizzyTeX is Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011 INRIA and distributed under the
GNU General Public License. See the enclosed file COPYING.
Acknowledgements
Benjamin Pierce gave me
the idea of writting WhizzyTeX. He and many users
have made interesting suggestions or provided useful feedback and should all
be thanked.
Sven Luther and Junichi Uekawa, Debian maintainers of the WhizzyTeX package,
have contributed to its early popularization and helped improving its
packaging.
Some people who made more significant contributions
may be listed in the CHANGES log file or other
source files.
Author
Didier Remy
Last-modified: "2011-08-01 10:28:20 remy"