inkbottle ha scritto: > On Thursday, April 19, 2018 3:22:26 PM CEST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > Meyer wrote: >> El miércoles, 18 de abril de 2018 16:38:37 -03 Luigi Toscano escribió: >>> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer ha scritto: >>>> El miércoles, 18 de abril de 2018 12:31:28 -03 inkbottle escribió: >>>>> However the resulting Okular behavior is far from satisfactory: >>>>> The inline note shows only the latex code: in order to see the result >>>>> of >>>>> it, one has to first double click the inline note, and then to click on >>>>> "render latex code"; which is far from providing an immediate and >>>>> intuitive view of the formulas. >>>>> >>>>> However, again, that could be use to compensate that poppler's utf8 >>>>> related >>>>> bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65956 >>>>> >>>>> Provided one possibly modify >>>>> https://github.com/KDE/okular/blob/2aa006fa87240a89ff8446744ccd9f86a48c >>>>> 8d >>>>> d0/ ui/latexrenderer.cpp through the addition of latex packages to >>>>> render >>>>> desired fonts; >>>>> not sure it is so easy, but is is probably easier than fixing a 5 years >>>>> old >>>>> poppler's bug. >>>> >>>> Maybe suggesting this to upstream? >>> >>> It would not fix the bug anyway: you don't want to strictly depend on a >>> (huge deployment of) latex for this. >> >> Indeed, this is true. > > So it boils done to a functionality: not very useful, not working very well, > and enabling it could clutter the system. > > Which lead to a very straightforward bug reporting course of action: doing > noting. I like it. > >
What I don't like it is when someone reads what I didn't write. I didn't say that that adding an optional dependency on latex is a problem. I wrote that this is not *the* solution, because most of the deployments don't, won't and can't have latex. -- Luigi
