From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Frankel Subject: Re: [BUG] org-create-formula-image requires 'gs' when it doesn't look like to be necessary (causing issues on Windows) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:49:05 -0500 Message-ID: <20161111164905.2jr3rv23orehpa5m@eyeBook.home> References: <639f70ca-4ba1-aadf-2f07-6a8d18b0320d@fgiasson.com> <87oa1mdpsv.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5F1I-0002Kb-5Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:49:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5F1F-0008Ci-3I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:49:40 -0500 Received: from mail.cybercode.nyc ([45.55.183.129]:34232) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5F1E-0008Cd-V1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:49:37 -0500 Received: from authenticated-user (mail.cybercode.nyc [45.55.183.129]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cybercode.nyc (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2EA36140583 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:49:06 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:02:00AM -0500, Frederick Giasson wrote: > > Do you mean that "gs" could be removed from all entries in > > `org-preview-latex-process-alist'? > > > > I'm Cc'ing Feng Shu, who implemented the new LaTeX preview mechanism. He > > hopefully knows why this dependency was introduced in the first place. > > I think so yes, at least on Windows (didn't try on Linux nor OSX) I've checked all three converters on os x as well (but not linux). ghostscript is included an a dependency for all of them, so won't work on osx w/o explicitly installing ghostscript, but in fact, work fine w/o it. I am not sure why it has been set for each converter as a dependency since it does not seem to be used by any of the conversion chains. As an aside, it is not mentioned in the documentation (info). rick