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From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Previewing chemfig
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:23:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0yxvwzzzzzz.qot.xxuns.g6.gal@galex-713.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761exm8rs.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:23:51 +0100")

On 2014-11-03 at 01:23, Rasmus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "Garreau, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu> writes:
>> On 2014-11-02 at 22:48, John Kitchin wrote:
>>> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>>> Interestingly, this:
>>> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{chemfig}
>>> $\chemfig{A-B-[1]C-[3]-D-[7]E-[6]F}$
>>> exports to pdf correctly, but the latex preview is not correct. All the
>>> letters are jumbled on top of each other.
>>
>> Ok, I tested again, and found that actually any preview (even without
>> chemfig) completely stops working when I add
>> « #+LATEX_HEADER:\usepackage{chemfig} », even pure maths. I just get
>> little shrinked transparent void rectangles.
>
> To debug check you *Message* buffer.  You might see something like
>
>    LaTeX errors in `*/tmp/orgtex1687lRq output*'. Use C-c ` to display.

Nothing in *messages*.

> Check the file, compile it, and check that everything works.  Compile it
> to dvi and try to run dvipng on the file.
>
> For me, dvipng is unhappy about chemfig since it seems to contain PS
> elements.  If I do
>
>     (setq org-latex-create-formula-image-program 'imagemagick)

And suddenly, after some trials, everything worked… :D thank you!

> everything works since it's converted to pdf rather than dvi.
>
> (org-version) => "8.3beta".
>
>> I’m on Debian Testing (Jessy) and hence use Org version 7.9.3f (GNU
>> Emacs 24.3).
>
> You might get better results with a recent version of Org.  If you
> upgrade to Emacs 24.4 you should get Org 8.2.10, I think.

Myeah, mixing distribution releases is not always a good idea, but I
think with Emacs it’s fine, and I want so much 24.4 features I’ll
probably do it in little time. 

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-03  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-02 19:17 Previewing chemfig Garreau, Alexandre
2014-11-02 19:45 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-02 20:09   ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-11-02 21:32     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-02 21:48       ` John Kitchin
2014-11-02 23:57         ` g Garreau, Alexandre
2014-11-03  0:23           ` Rasmus
2014-11-03  1:23             ` Garreau, Alexandre [this message]
2014-11-03 21:09           ` John Kitchin

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