Re: displaying equations with ob-latex

[michael-franzese@gmx.com]

> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2021 at 10:52 AM
> From: "Berry, Charles via General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> To: "michael-franzese@gmx.com" <michael-franzese@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Help Emacs Orgmode" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: displaying equations with ob-latex
>
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> > On May 6, 2021, at 3:08 PM, michael-franzese@gmx.com wrote:
> >
> > Did you manage to get the equations displayed, I have tried again and could not do
> > it.  It might be beneficial to give more details and some more examples on what to do.
> >
>
> Yes, the one equation was displayed as a preview.
>
> Maybe I was not clear in my directions so try this bit:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> 1. Copy the text between the `cut here' lines to its own org buffer.
> 2. Place cursor in the eqn1 src block.
> 3. Type ~C-c C-c~ and respond to any prompt about evaluating with ~y~.
> 4. An eqn1 results block should appear with a :results: drawer
>    containing an equation in it.
> 5. Type ~C-c C-x C-l~.
> 6. The equation should be previewed in the :results: drawer.
> 7. Export to LaTeX Buffer with ~C-c C-e C-b l L y~
> 8. Only an enumerate environment and the equation should appear in the
>    LaTeX buffer.
>
> #+name: eqn1
> #+begin_src latex :exports none :results drawer
>   \(y = x\beta + \epsilon\)
> #+end_src
>
> #+call: eqn1() :results latex
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
>
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> > Can I export on a window that is to right window of the code window?
>
> IIUC, the question is
>
> :  when I export (as in item 5 in the list above), will the LaTeX buffer
> :  open in a window to the right of the one containing the org buffer?
>
> This is what happens in my setup when I have the org buffer displayed in a frame with just one window.
>
> But how windows are displayed depends on many factors. See (info "(emacs) Windows") for some of the details. So you may need to customize or resize your frame to get the same behavior.
>
>
> >  I can one use plain
> > tex commands.  Texinfo mainly supports plain tex, org mode in basically latex, so the
> > two programs do not currently work well together.
> >
>
> Um, I don't see how this gets to the original question.

It is a side problem after the task of math display is achieved.

> > Texinfo has the good feature to show equations (but only for plain tex) whereas org
> > is good with latex (but not very adept at displaying the output in an emacs window).
>
> There are probably a lot of opinions in the org community about how well org handles previewing output. For me it works well. YMMV.

Surely you are right, but it is a problem of use case.  The lot of opinions suggest to me that
there should be various functionalities that can handle different approaches.

> HTH,
>
> Chuck
>
>