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["Alvaro Tejero Cantero" <address@hidden>]

I don't see the need to create PDFs to see 'the results of work done
on one section'. This is LaTeX thinking. In TeXmacs, you just activate
'paper' mode (as opposed to papyrus), and/or make visible the
headers/footers within the margins. There's no need to compile
anything.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 22:21, Andrea Gamba <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Alfe,
>
>>> It would be much better if the production of the pdf or of the new 
>>> document
>>> were treated as background jobs, so that the user could continue to 
>>> interact
>>> with the program during their completion.
>
>>To solve this problem, TeXmacs would have to create the PDF from an
>>internally created copy of the current document (whose creation might be a
>>similar long-running task as the PDF creation).
>
> I think it should work exactly as you say. Just copying the document is not 
> a
> long-running task because it involves no computation at all. More precisely,
> what you would do would be to pipe the document to a separate job that 
> would do
> the processing.
>
> I think the convenience of not having to stop working until the end of the
> process is huge. It breaks the continuity of your work. For instance, I may 
> be
> willing to see the results of work done on one section and meanwhile start
> looking at the following section, but I cannot do it because the pdf takes 
> some
> minute to be composed (and it's not in the background as it could be). 
> Consider
> that the time of composing a pdf may be long for several reasons (such as 
> the
> presence of images in the document, for instance).
>
> Andrea
>