Hi, On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 16:43 +0100, Colin Macdonald wrote: > There was a previous thread about this: I think there was a > work-around / hack by Jose Matos (which I haven't got around to > trying). I will forward it to you off-list. > > I would also like to have a proper fix: preview.sty seems to be needed > for many of my beamer files.
Yeah, I had seen that thread in my Googling and it helped make me more confident that I wasn't just failing to find preview.sty somewhere in the Texlive 2012 repo. But it doesn't address the question of whether preview *ought* to be in the repo. Does anyone know how to go about checking that? (Again, please CC me on any followups since I'm not subscribed to the list.) Peter > Colin > > On 09/28/2012 02:44 PM, Peter Williams wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using texlive 2012 on Fedora 17 and need the preview.sty file. But > > it doesn't seem to be provided **by the texlive 2012 repo** as checked > > with the usual ways. > > > > There **is** a tex-preview from the fedora repo, but it seems to be > > incompatible since it puts files in /usr/share/texmf. There's also a > > texlive-preview package in texlive **2011**. > > > > Should I take this to mean that the preview package has been deprecated > > in upstream texlive 2012? Maybe there was just an oversight in > > propagating it to the Fedora texlive 2012 repository? > > > > (Yes, I could get going by installing the Fedora RPM and futzing my > > path, but I'm interested in the packaging aspect of this issue, not the > > functionality.) > > > > Please CC me in any replies since I'm not subscribed to the list. -- Peter Williams / pe...@newton.cx _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
