Re: Using org-latex-preview in other major modes

[Tony Zorman]

On Sun, Apr 07 2024 23:36, Karthik Chikmagalur wrote:
> You can ignore `org-latex-preview-live--src-buffer-setup', this is for
> previewing when using `org-edit-special' (C-c '), which does not apply
> to any other major mode.  So `org-latex-preview-live--ensure-overlay' is
> the only function you need to rewrite, which should be easy.

Oh, indeed, you are right; seems like it only looked intimidating! I
quickly hacked this in just now, and it works just fine.

As a very brief summary, one currently needs to—in addition to supplying
a preamble and a way to recognise maths and environments—patch the
following functions:

  · org-latex-preview--place-from-elements
  · org-latex-preview-auto--regenerate-overlay 
  · org-latex-preview-auto--maybe-track-element-here
  · org-latex-preview-live--ensure-overlay

The last two are only needed for the "live" part of the live previews to
work.

I will clean the code up a little bit (hopefully by the weekend, but no
promises), and try to add support for LaTeX environments instead of just
maths. I reckon that once this is finished one can get a pretty good
idea in which direction org-latex-preview.el would need to be nudged to
more easily facilitate this kind of integration. After that I guess
there's still the issue of caching and numbering, but I'll cross that
bridge once we get to it :)

  Tony

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