Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:

> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> >>>>> "Jan-Åke" == Jan-Åke Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> Jan-Åke> May I suggest you take a look at "dvipng", available at
>> Jan-Åke> http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex/
>> 
>> I think angus took a look at it, and I guess lyxpreview2bitmap.sh
>> will eventually use it. However, this does not make much sense
>> until it has found its way in some distributions (like tetex)
> 
> OK. Just so you've seen it. (It may take some time to get it into
> teTeX)

We don't need to do that. Users already have to install preview.sty 
to get this to work and preview.sty certainly wasn't part of teTeX 
when this stuff was coded up. We could happily have

if [ 0 -eq find_it dvipng ]; then
        go_the_dvipng_route
else
        go_the_dvips_gs_route
fi


-- 
Angus

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