preview-latex: Getting started
1.3 Getting started
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Once activated, preview-latex and its documentation will be accessible
via its menus (note that preview-latex requires AUCTeX to be loaded).
When you have loaded a LaTeX document (a sample document 'circ.tex' is
included in the distribution, but most documents including math and/or
figures should do), you can use its menu or 'C-c C-p C-d' (for
'Preview/Document'). Previews will now be generated for various objects
in your document. You can use the time to take a short look at the
other menu entries and key bindings in the 'Preview' menu. You'll see
the previewed objects change into a roadworks sign when preview-latex
has determined just what it is going to preview. Note that you can
freely navigate the buffer while this is going on. When the process is
finished you will see the objects typeset in your buffer.
It is a bad idea, however, to edit the buffer before the roadworks
signs appear, since that is the moment when the correlation between the
original text and the buffer locations gets established. If the buffer
changes before that point of time, the previews will not be placed where
they belong. If you do want to change some obvious error you just
spotted, we recommend you stop the background process by pressing 'C-c
C-k'.
To see/edit the LaTeX code for a specific object, put the point (the
cursor) on it and press 'C-c C-p C-p' (for 'Preview/at point'). It will
also do to click with the middle mouse button on the preview. Now you
can edit the code, and generate a new preview by again pressing 'C-c C-p
C-p' (or by clicking with the middle mouse button on the icon before the
edited text).
If you are using the 'desktop' package, previews will remain from one
session to the next as long as you don't kill your buffer.
Info Catalog
preview-latex: Activating preview-latex
preview-latex: Introduction
preview-latex: Basic modes of operation