From: Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>, Tony Zorman <mail@tony-zorman.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using org-latex-preview in other major modes
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:06:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871q7hf3p1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87msq5o03b.fsf@localhost>
> Abstracting away previews is certainly welcome.
> RMS explicitly asked Org mode team to work towards this goal:
> https://list.orgmode.org/E1kIkxv-0007iy-Av@fencepost.gnu.org/
I agree with RMS about this, and this was on our minds when we wrote
org-latex-preview. The basic previewing process is explicitly written
to be Org-agnostic, but we weren't as rigorous when adding the fancier
features (like live previews).
> Ideally, we should have Org-independent library that does the previews,
> and an Org-specific code that re-uses this library. Eventually, we can
> move the generic library to Emacs core.
Here is the plan Timothy and I have discussed:
1. Merge org-latex-preview in its current state and continue to fix
bugs/edge cases.
2. Write an external package reimplementing in a more generic way the
parts of the API that are Org-specific. This external package will
depend (heavily) on org-latex-preview.
3. Solicit from the community integrations of this with other
major-modes using this generic API.
4. Once this API is stable, replace the corresponding parts of
org-latex-preview.
5. Propose moving everything but the Org-specific parts to a
`latex-preview.el' package included with Emacs.
From Tony's proof of concept, I think step 2 might be unnecessary and we
can incrementally modify org-latex-preview instead.
> We may go even further, and extend the previews to be not just for
> LaTeX. Might as well preview html/image links/pdf links/etc.
I agree in principle but I think this is difficult to do with
org-latex-preview because the async process chain and overlay handling are
highly tuned for low-latency LaTeX processing.[1]
I do think Emacs could use a generic link-preview package, with an
org-link-preview adapter for Org mode.
Karthik
[1]: As low-latency as possible from Emacs without modifying
the LaTeX compiler or image renderer, as for example TeXpresso
does. https://github.com/let-def/texpresso
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-07 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-07 7:22 Using org-latex-preview in other major modes Tony Zorman
2024-04-07 11:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-07 18:06 ` Karthik Chikmagalur [this message]
2024-04-09 14:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-07 17:48 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2024-04-08 6:23 ` Tony Zorman
2024-04-08 6:36 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2024-04-09 20:06 ` Tony Zorman
2024-04-21 19:10 ` Tony Zorman
2024-04-22 3:41 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2024-04-22 9:29 ` Tony Zorman
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