> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Also, did your patch for having OK be the default button for
>> printing dialog ever get applied to 1.3.x?
Angus> Apparently not. I can confirm that the attached patch works.
Angus> Shall I apply it?
Yes, please.
JMarc
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> Bo Peng wrote:
>>> Dear developers,
>>>
>>> It took me a while to set up instant preview on solaris. One
>>> problem is that my grep does not have -E option so
>>>
>>> grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' ${LO
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Bo Peng wrote:
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> It took me a while to set up instant preview on solaris. One
>> problem is that my grep does not have -E option so
>>
>> grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' ${LOGFILE} > ${METRICSFILE} || would fail.
>
Bo Peng wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> It took me a while to set up instant preview on solaris. One problem
> is that my grep does not have -E option so
>
> grep -E 'Preview: [ST]' ${LOGFILE} > ${METRICSFILE} ||
> would fail. Deleting -E solves the problem.
Fair enough. There's nothing very exten
Angus Leeming wrote:
> I get a bunch of warnings like
>
> [43/home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (9633,8)
> unimplemented \special{ps::-32891 -32891 32891 32891 1655772 576976
> 22609920}. ps::-32891
> ]
>
> Which looks to me to be the metrics info that preview.sty generat
Angus Leeming wrote:
> I use it within LyX to calculate the 'ascent fraction' of the
> snippet. (A snippet whose base line was in the middle of the image
> would have an ascent fraction of 0.5.) The code that does this inside
> LyX is (stripped down):
>
>
> This information is used to positio
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
>> I get a bunch of warnings like
>>
>> [43/home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at
>> [(9633,8)
>> unimplemented \special{ps::-32891 -32891 32891 32891 1655772 576976
>> 22609920}. ps::-32891
>> ]
>>
>> Which looks to me to be the m
Angus Leeming wrote:
> > How about
> > \AtBeginDocument{\AtBeginDvi{\pagecolor{rgb 0.980 0.941 0.902}}}
> > which would work for both dvips-gs and dvipng, I think?
>
> and setting the text colour is also possible this way (for those who
> have an unusual screen set-up)
>
> \AtBeginDocument{\AtBe
Angus Leeming wrote:
> > I see. There are two possibilities:
> >
> > 1) Make dvipng detect usage of the 'tightpage' option and use the
> >image metrics within the DVI.
> >
> > 2) Output the position of the baseline of the first character output
> >in each image, in pixels or possibly as a
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:43:28PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> If we can get this working properly, then I think I'll throw
> Angus> away the dvips,gs,pnmcrop code and require the use of dvipng.
> Angus> How's that for
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
>> > How about
>> > \AtBeginDocument{\AtBeginDvi{\pagecolor{rgb 0.980 0.941 0.902}}}
>> > which would work for both dvips-gs and dvipng, I think?
>>
>> and setting the text colour is also possible this way (for those who
>> have an unusual screen set-
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> > At the moment, going
> > the dvips,gs,pnmcrop route I encode the forground and background
> > colours of the lyx screen as postscript specials:
> >
> > \AtBeginDocument{\AtBeginDvi{%
> > \special{!userdict begin/bop-hook{//bop-hook exec
> > <00faf0e6>{255 div}foral
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
>> > At the moment, going
>> > the dvips,gs,pnmcrop route I encode the forground and background
>> > colours of the lyx screen as postscript specials:
>> >
>> > \AtBeginDocument{\AtBeginDvi{%
>> > \special{!userdict begin/bop-hook{//bop-hook exec
>>
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> If we can get this working properly, then I think I'll throw
Angus> away the dvips,gs,pnmcrop code and require the use of dvipng.
Angus> How's that for motivation ;-)
Why not allow both?
JMarc
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
>> Since both dvipng and dvips,gs,pnmcrop use the same dvi file, it
>> seems to make sense to use the same mechanism. However, if you have
>> another mechanism to obtain this info within dvipng, then please do
>> tell me.
>
> I see. There are two possibilities:
>
> 1) Make
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> May I suggest you take a look at "dvipng", available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex/
Jan-Åke,
playing with the attached tex file
$ latex trial.tex
$ dvipng -D$128 -otrial%d.png trial.dvi
I get a bunch of warnings like
[43/home/angus/preview-latex/d
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> A tight bounding box can be produced with
>
> dvipng -T tight foo.dvi
>
> But I think the effect is similar to
>
> pnmcrop
>
> rather than
>
> pnmcrop -left | pnmcrop -right
pnmcrop buggers up the top/bottom metrics which we would like to use.
> I'd planned a switch
Angus Leeming wrote:
> When I was writing this stuff to interat with preview latex, dvipng
> was still very young. Do you think that it is now mature enough to
> use?
I'd think so. It is used in WeBWorK, a tool to distribute homework
problems on the web, and has been reported to "produce thousands
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> You should say ``is there''.
Thanks. I found it so ugly...
Angus> and I agree, there is no harm in setting LATEX directly. My
Angus> reading of 'test' suggests that this is portable and pretty
Angus> elegant:
Angus> test $LATEX |
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> Ta-da! Simple solution to a simple problem. In fact,
> analogous Angus> to the LYX_USERDIR_14x environment variable, could
> we not get Angus> LyX itself to set a LYX_14X environment variable?
> The
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Ta-da! Simple solution to a simple problem. In fact, analogous
Angus> to the LYX_USERDIR_14x environment variable, could we not get
Angus> LyX itself to set a LYX_14X environment variable? Thereafter,
Angus> we could simply ask lyx
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> Well, I don't think that lyx should fork one script, wait for
> Angus> it to finish generating a dvi file and then fork off another
> to Angus> generate the bitmaps from it. However we could perhaps
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Well, I don't think that lyx should fork one script, wait for
Angus> it to finish generating a dvi file and then fork off another to
Angus> generate the bitmaps from it. However we could perhaps generate
Angus> a temporary file and
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jean-Marc> I think we are trying to do things that are too
> Jean-Marc> complicated, and this indicates that we have not found
> yet Jean-Marc> the 'right' solution...
>
> What about the
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 gu
Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> May I suggest you take a look at "dvipng", available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex/
>
> About:
> This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX
> and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest
> bitmap-rendering c
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> Angus> Am I not correct to say that the name of the user lyxdir is
> set Angus> at configure(old)/make(new) time? Yes, I know I'm correct
> to Angus> say this.
>
> And what about that?
> ./lyx -user-dir ~/.my-lyx
>
> I think we are trying to do things that are to
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
>
> "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
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jean-Marc> I think we are trying to do things that are too
> Jean-Marc> complicated, and this indicates that we have not found yet
> Jean-Marc> the 'right' solution...
>
> What about the follow
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jean-Marc> I think we are trying to do things that are too
Jean-Marc> complicated, and this indicates that we have not found yet
Jean-Marc> the 'right' solution...
What about the following?
1/ generate your tex file
2/ run the
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Angus> Second thought. Have a shell script that just initialises
>> such Angus> variables and call it from lyxpreview2bitmap.sh. Get
>> conf
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> Second thought. Have a shell script that just initialises
> such Angus> variables and call it from lyxpreview2bitmap.sh. Get
> configure Angus> to autogenerate this script
>
> This would not solve
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Second thought. Have a shell script that just initialises such
Angus> variables and call it from lyxpreview2bitmap.sh. Get configure
Angus> to autogenerate this script
This would not solve my problem, for example (where I need to u
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> If we assume that all 'proper' systems will have a
> Angus> lyxrc.defaults file that can be found by
> lyxpreview2bitmap.sh, Angus> could we not use this:
>
> And how would it find that?
>
> Angus
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> If we assume that all 'proper' systems will have a
Angus> lyxrc.defaults file that can be found by lyxpreview2bitmap.sh,
Angus> could we not use this:
And how would it find that?
Angus> sed -n '/^\\converter *latex *dvi/p' ../lyxr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dekel> Is there any objection to change the line LATEX=latex in
> Dekel> lyxpreview2bitmap.sh to LATEX=elatex ?
>
> Dekel> I want this change as latex with Hebrew requires using
> elatex. Dekel> As far as I
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dekel> Is there any objection to change the line LATEX=latex in
Dekel> lyxpreview2bitmap.sh to LATEX=elatex ?
Dekel> I want this change as latex with Hebrew requires using elatex.
Dekel> As far as I know, there are no side effects when elate
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