I used Make, inotifytools, pdflatex (or similar), "xpdf -remote", and $EDITOR to get an almost-instantly-updated view of papers and my thesis, including all figures and illustrations.
When any of the dependencies of the final output changed, inotifywait noticed and kicked off a "make", and then notified the xpdf instance to refresh itself. xpdf was nice enough to try to stay on the same page when it did this.
When any of the dependencies of the final output changed, inotifywait noticed and kicked off a "make", and then notified the xpdf instance to refresh itself. xpdf was nice enough to try to stay on the same page when it did this.