[ESS] Care to critique some Emacs-ess slides?

[Norm Matloff]

I haven't looked at it in many years, but as I recall, it doesn't do
much more than render bold, italic, tables, sub/superscripts, etc.
Download it and open your favorite .tex file, and you'll get an idea of
it.

This should be easily doable in Emacs.  Another possibility would be to
do something along the lines of the tth LaTeX-to-HTML converter, which
basically tries to render math etc. to text.  It does a fairly good job;
see

http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/

Again, I can envision a similar Emacs rendering good enough for 
backslash-free, faux WYSIWYG LaTeX editing.  

Norm

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:26:51PM +0200, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>   >> Norm Matloff <matloff at cs.ucdavis.edu>
>   >> on Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:50:51 -0700 wrote:
> 
>   > Elvis, an offshoot of vi, has a LaTeX mode, which displays in
>   > de-backslashed form the .tex file being edited.  You can toggle back and
>   > forth between this mode and the real thing.  Maybe someone would like to
>   > try to make an Emacs version?
> 
> This should be easy for basic characters which are available in the
> current font set. But what to do with those which are not? Does it also
> replace commands (\mathscr) and environments (\begin{align})?
> 
> Can you please share a couple of screenshots/links? I cannot find
> anything useful.
> 
>      Vialie.
> 
>   > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:20:38PM -0500, Yihui Xie wrote:
>   >> I was about to say "BTW, AucTeX is still 10 miles away" in my last
>   >> email but decided not to say it since I knew I would be in big trouble
>   >> :) Well well, I'm just a person who does not want to see a screen full
>   >> of backslashes while writing a document. I appreciate the preview
>   >> package, and it does help a bit, but not as much as I expect.
>   >> 
>   >> Regards,
>   >> Yihui
>   >> --
>   >> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>   >> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>   >> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>   >> 
>   >> 
>   >> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Stephen Eglen <sje30 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>   >> > On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 17:58, Yihui Xie wrote:
>   >> >
>   >> >
>   >> > I'm sorry this is going to be off-topic, but LyX is LaTeX at its core,
>   >> > and more importantly: http://cmenzel.org/LyXvsEmacs.pdf> >
>   >> >
>   >> > Have you seen preview-latex.el, which is part of auctex?
>   >> >
>   >> > http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html> >
>   >> > Stephen
>   >> >
>   >> >
>   >> 
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