Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

> But it's still not a real preview. For instance, if I chose "Palatino",
> mathpazo uses either URW Palladio (which is free), or some commercial font
> like Linotype Palatino, if that is installed. The two fonts look very
> similar, because Palladio is a Palatino clone, but they are not identical.

I doubt that anybody would see the difference in a small preview box.

> What I mean is: if we want a real preview, we would have to pass "The
> little brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" through preview-latex and
> display the resulting image.

That should be easy as to do as well. And if latex fails we could display
that, too, so that you have an immediate feedback what fonts are available
and what not.


Georg

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