[texworks] Is there anything like to InstantTeX's IPC (InterProcess Communication) in TeXworks?

William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com
Tue Dec 3 19:34:02 CET 2013


On Dec 3, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> If InstantTeX's IPC means what I think it means you might be able to set up latexmk to continuously look for changes in a .tex file (i.e., you'll have to save changes) and then automatically update the pdf.

No, it's not like Textures (though Textures used something like IPC to make itself work), instead there is a facility where TeX is able to inform a dvi processor that it has completed a page (while it's still typesetting the document) and the dvi processor is then able to display the updated page before TeX has finished typesetting the entire document (assuming one isn't on the last page).

I guess what we'd need now would be a custom version of TeX which would write out each page to a separate .pdf.

William

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