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[Lionel Elie Mamane <address@hidden>]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:30:47PM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:40:35PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>> How does one force refreshing the rendering of a document fragment
>> from Scheme code, short of doing an edit action at that point or
>> near?

> In the C++ code, we also have a routine

>       void edit_typeset_rep::typeset_invalidate (path p)

> We might want to export this to the Scheme level.

If it were exported, I'd use it indeed.

>> the end result I'm aiming at is rather simple: before a certain
>> point in the document, all prompts are one colour and after that
>> point all prompts are another colour. That point is transient,
>> depending on the state of the Coq process and should _not_ be saved
>> with the document. It is currently in a Scheme variable (as a
>> position).

> Yes, extern seems a reasonable thing to use, (...).  Notice however
> that this is not necessarily what you want in all circumstances:
> don't forget the case that someone without Coq wants to open a Coq
> document in the same state that you left it, without wanting to
> (re)do any computations.

Yes, yes. That's why I leave the content of the output nodes in the
document: someone without Coq can follow the operations without
redoing them.

-- 
Lionel