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[Andrea Gamba<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.

Thank you, I never understood what the 'paper' mode was, now that you told me 
I
find it really useful. It will reduce for me the need to create a pdf.

But the point about background jobs is still there: it may be for printing
instead than for preparing a pdf. You may be interested for instance in
printing a version for somebody else and still be working on the document.

Opening an other texmacs for printing and having a script to automate the
process is an idea. I guess texmacs may also be called in the background
without opening a new window, isn't it so? I would write the script if I was
able to.