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From: Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pstricks in org-mode?
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:55:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <417457b50910080755vaf6a22dwa0dd4a433ad39b7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A14140A-B54C-477C-BBF3-0156DBDB9F27@gmail.com>


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OK!
I'll report back.
/Johan

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Johan Ekh wrote:
>
>  preview-latex in AucTeX works really well I think. It would be nice to use
>> it in org-mode.
>> I'm not a lisp programmer. I would be happy to contribute to org-mode but
>> I need support.
>> Could someone point me in the right direction to start developing such a
>> patch?
>>
>> Or, if someone more skilled than me would like to pick it up and just do
>> it, that would
>> be fine with me!
>>
>
> I think you could start by investigating if it would be possible
> to use preview-LaTeX in a file like an Org-mode file.  For this you
> probably
> need to ask on the AUCTeX mailing lists.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>> //Johan
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Carsten Dominik <
>> carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote:
>>
>>
>> Even graphics made in tikz, that does not use postscript commands, do not
>> appear
>> in DVI viewers. I haven't used the preview-latex with graphics in AucTeX,
>> but if
>> it is able to view graphics made with pstricks, as it appears to be the
>> case,
>> then maybe it is better to first investigate how preview-latex is able to
>> do
>> this before searching for options to pass to dvipng in org-mode.
>>
>> IMHO it would be even better if it was possible to use the original
>> preview-latex from AucTeX instead of reinventing the wheel.
>>
>> :-)  I'd be happy to accept a patch!
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
>> Darlan
>>
>>
>> PS: Please, when answering E-Mails do not forget to also CC to the the org
>> mailing list.
>>
>>
>>
>> At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:28:37 +0200,
>> Johan Ekh wrote:
>>
>> [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
>> Thanks for sharing with me! Your setup seems to give a good workflow.
>> Before
>> starting to use org-mode I worked with my
>> graphics in emacs using the preview facility in AucTeX. Thus I could
>> develop
>> my picture and easily update the
>> preview to see the effect of my last edit.
>>
>> Since starting to use org-mode I find that I have it open all the time and
>> would like to include it as much as possible
>> in my work flow. Many of my pictures share some content and it would be
>> nice
>> to develop some "templates" that
>> I can start with when I do my pictures. Pstricks is postscript and usually
>> do not display in dvi viewers. This is
>> probably why dvipng doesn't work.
>>
>> Is there any way I can manipulate org-modes route to a png preview
>> picture?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Johan
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <
>> darcamo@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From the documentation it seems that org-mode uses dvipng.
>> [[info:org:LaTeX%20fragments][info:org:LaTeX fragments]]
>> But I don't know how it behaves with pstricks.
>>
>> I usually create the graphics in a separated file when I'm working with
>> latex. It's a complete latex file with the necessary preamble that will be
>> later turned into comments when I'm finished and want to actually include
>> the
>> graphic in my document. (using \input{graphic.tex})
>>
>> When I'm working on it, Emacs occupies half of my screen (or more) and
>> evince
>> occupies the other half. Whenever I compile the document (using pdflatex
>> since I
>> use tikz to draw graphics) the pdf is automatically reloaded by evince.
>> Since I
>> don't rely on the preview-latex for developing the graphics I don't know
>> if
>> it
>> works with tikz. I guess I'll give it a try.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I tried with the simple example
>> ,----
>> | \begin{tikzpicture}
>> | \draw (0,0) -- (1,1);
>> | \end{tikzpicture}
>> `----
>> and it does not work. Only a little square is show in the Emacs buffer.
>> Well,
>> this is expected since the package tikz is not included in the temporary
>> .tex
>> file (and neither is pstricks as I could see).
>>
>> After included the usepackage{tikz} in org-format-latex-header the preview
>> is
>> "created". However nothing is show, since the graphic generated by tikz
>> (and
>> pstricks) is not present at the DVI stage.
>>
>> This seems to be a limitation of dvipng and not org-mode.
>>
>> Darlan
>>
>>
>> At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:53:54 +0200,
>> Johan Ekh wrote:
>>
>> [1.1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
>> But is pdflatex also used for rendering the previews in emacs? The most
>> convenient thing for me would
>> be to see the preview while I am developing the picture and then as a
>> last
>> step export it to my latex document.
>>
>> Do you this is possible somehow?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Johan
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <
>> darcamo@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Remember that because pstricks use postscript commands it is necessary
>> to
>> take
>> the long route in latex (latex->DVI->PS->PDF) instead of just using
>> pdflatex. Therefore, if you put some pstricks code in the org-file and
>> export to
>> PDF to see the result then this is the reason, since the exporter seems
>> to
>> use
>> pdflatex to process the generated .tex file (I'm assuming this, since I
>> don't
>> see any DVI or PS file created by the exporter).
>>
>> Best,
>> Darlan
>>
>> At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:52:33 +0200,
>> Johan Ekh wrote:
>>
>> [1  <multipart/alternative (7bit)>]
>> [1.1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
>> It seems that I can use any latex package that I want except for the
>> pstricks ones.
>> No picture is produced. No error message either. I load the same
>> packages
>> and use the same
>> pstricks code that I have in a regular latex document (on the same
>> computer)
>> and
>> it works in that document.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> //Johan
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, I'll try it!
>> /Johan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Carsten Dominik <
>> carsten.dominik@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Johan Ekh wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm using org-mode to write LaTeX snippets that I later (usually)
>> transfer into a separate latex document.
>> Can I also write and preview pstricks code in org-mode?
>>
>> Also, can I do "usepackage(xxx)" someway do use LaTeX extensions?
>>
>>
>> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{pstricks}
>>
>> or something along those lines.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-08 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-30 22:30 pstricks in org-mode? Johan Ekh
2009-10-01 11:55 ` Carsten Dominik
     [not found]   ` <417457b50910011346o533328e6obcc5769295b214c6@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-02 12:52     ` Johan Ekh
2009-10-02 13:28       ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-10-02 14:53         ` Johan Ekh
2009-10-02 18:34           ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
     [not found]             ` <417457b50910030128s64c8c6ecu2bcb55b1a5f27bf1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-05 17:29               ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-10-05 17:57                 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-08  8:32                   ` Johan Ekh
2009-10-08 10:25                     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-08 14:55                       ` Johan Ekh [this message]
2009-10-20 20:02                         ` Johan Ekh

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