Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> this seems to be a bug in preview.sty.
> the relevant latex code is
>
> \begin{eqnarray}
> y & = & d\label{eq:2}\\
> y & = & cx+d\\
> y & = & bx^{2}+cx+d\\
> y & = & ax^{3}+bx^{2}+cx+d\label{eq:5}
> \end{eqnarray}
It's not a bug, it is a feature (of course, of course, yeah sure,
everything you say, boo, hiss). Ok, here is the gist: \label can be
used in a host of different circumstances (figures, tables,
equations...). preview.sty just stacks the labels it finds in a
preview and places them at the bottom right of the preview.
In this case, the stacking corresponds too perfectly visually with
the actual equations. I'll make the labels smaller in the next
release; at least they will not line up as perfectly as they do now.
AMSLaTeX has a different way of placing equation labels. If you use
AMSLaTeX's math environments (which are infinitely preferable to the
basic LaTeX ones), the labels will be arranged corresponding to the
actual equations instead of the overall preview box.
Personally, I am not too much of a fan of the showlabels option, and
this particular problem (which only occurs when not using the AMSLaTeX
environments) is not going to get the necessary time and attention
before getting the next release out. If anybody wants to try his
hands at it, the code in the standard package "showkeys" might or
might not give pointers about how to find out the labels. Note that
this package does not work with preview.sty since it does not impact
bounding boxes, and so the material it produces gets cut off.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
