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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Emmanuel Charpentier <emm.charpentier@free.fr>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] LaTeX preview should use a subdirectory in /tmp
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:18:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zftr4uaj.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59096bd365ccf1cb3ec2b45b0f2ecb5c508ded34.camel@free.fr>

Emmanuel Charpentier <emm.charpentier@free.fr> writes:

>> Assuming that your `org-preview-latex-default-process' is using the
>> default value of 'dvipng, does it help if you change the image
>> convertor
>> command to use absolute path?
>
> I didn't know that one could do that : the placeholders are not well
> documented...

Yeah. This particular option is missing from the docstring of
`org-preview-latex-process-alist'.

>> (plist-put (alist-get 'dvipng org-preview-latex-process-alist)
>> 	   :image-converter
>>            '("dvipng -D %D -T tight -o %O %F"))
>
> Nope, same problem : the *Org Preview LaTeX Output* buffer says :
>
> ../../../../../tmp/orgtexSyy18r.dvi: No such file or directory
> This is dvipng 1.15 Copyright 2002-2015 Jan-Ake Larsson
>
> If I understand it correctly, the %F placeholder should be an
> *absolute* filename. It is not...
>
> Couldn't the output directory of the :latex-compiler element being
> hardcoded to, say, the curerent directory or a subdirectory thereof,
> and ditto for the input directory of :image-converter ?

What if you do M-x trace-function <RET> org-compile-file-commands <RET>
and run the preview.
Then, a buffer should appear listing the command expansions used during
the preview process. May you then share that buffer?

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-17 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-17 15:21 [BUG] LaTeX preview should use a subdirectory in /tmp Emmanuel Charpentier
2024-04-17 16:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-17 20:04   ` Emmanuel Charpentier
2024-04-17 20:18     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-04-17 20:41       ` Emmanuel Charpentier
2024-04-18 12:23         ` Emmanuel Charpentier
2024-04-19 11:56         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-19 15:00           ` emm.charpentier
2024-04-20 12:49             ` Max Nikulin
2024-05-02 10:30     ` Ihor Radchenko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-04-17 15:12 copropriete27ruemoret
2024-03-25 10:40 Max Nikulin
2024-03-25 11:40 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-25 12:49   ` Max Nikulin
2024-03-26 11:29     ` Max Nikulin

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