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From: | David Kastrup |
Subject: | Re: Overlay mechanic improvements |
Date: | Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:14:50 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes: >> Why aren't text properties right for [preview-latex]? > > There are various things which are difficult to do with text-properties. > E.g. the lack of after/before_string is the most obvious difference. Uh, that too. preview-latex makes use of them as well for several things. Supporting after/before_string with text properties would be really weird as inserting text in the middle of some text with the respective properties would cause those strings to appear ex nihilo. -- David Kastrup
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