Adding a badge preview option...

[brennanpincardiff]

I don't know if this is possible but it would be useful, I think to add a preview option/function.
This would be useful for long names and where custom options are being used.
Is it possible to preview Latex in one of the RStudio windows?

[DaveParr]

That would be a good thing if we could pull it off, but I have a feeling technically it would be tricky.

One of the things that I think RStudio does to make previews of notebooks is to have the output of the preview generated as a 'webpage' like HTML view, and one of the requirements of the tex integration is I believe a 'it'll run when you ask it to' kind of approach that is passed off to a very separate function. Short of running a consistently executing process in the back ground I'm not sure how we could achieve this.

Very happy to be proved wrong though :)

[DaveParr]

At large volumes do we expect very poor performance?