future of quail

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Julian Bradfield writes:
>
>  > >fast.  TeXmacs is an interesting variant, but TeX is also too *cough*
>  > >"mature" to be easily mated to Emacs in a flexible, programmable way.
>  > 
>  > I wasn't aware of it. I'm not entirely sure I see what it's for!
>
> I've tried to use it for live updates to mathematical presentations in
> Emacs.  Thing is, when you want to type the math as you think and have
> the computer do the formatting, there is no substitute for TeX.

Some early preview-latex code has been reused (possibly at some point
rewritten) in some computer algebra system interface in Emacs.  I don't
remember which mode and system this was, but the result would have been
"live updates".

It would be interesting to integrate something like this into Emacs
calc.

-- 
David Kastrup