On Thursday, April 19, 2018 9:38:57 PM CEST you wrote: > 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/2aa006fa87240a89ff8446744ccd9f86a48 > >>>>> c > >>>>> 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.
There might have been some misunderstanding; surely nothing improper was meant. But you made your point about that a LaTeX deployment cannot be assumed generally speaking. At the end of the day I don't see there is much ground for a bug report, either on debian side or upstream; but then I might be mistaken.
