Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just downloaded preview-latex.. it seems to require xemacs or some > sort of emacs with image support.. do I really need to install > xemacs if I only intend to use it with LyX? Does preview-latex > depend on emacs to do what it does?
preview-latex does (it is the name of the Emacs package providing the previews), but preview.sty and its support files don't. In a nutshell, if you have the preview-latex tarball, as a LyX user you will only need the files in the `latex' subdirectory. The autoconf-based installation will probably barf without Emacs, so you need to install the files according to the latex/README-preview file by hand. On CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview we also have a standalone LaTeX distribution (CTAN is the comprehensive TeX archive network, more info at, say, www.dante.de). With RedHat preview-latex-common should do the trick as a package, with Debian we have preview-latex-styles or something like that. I am currently thinking about what name to use for a standalone LaTeX distribution on preview-latex's development site so that people don't download it unless they really need it (and they won't need it if they already downloaded the preview-latex tarball itself). I could also offer to add uploading the tarball for the standalone LaTeX styles to some LyX-related server, if you would prefer that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
