Re: Problem with LaTeX snippets preview

[Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>]

At Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:58:01 -0400,
Paul Burkander wrote:
> 
> It doesn't seem nice that my thread was hijacked.
> 
> Anyway, I solved my original problem, which as you might recall was
> that I got an empty box when I tried to preview.
> 
> I installed texlive-latex-extras.  It has since worked.  If that
> package is needed, it would be helpful to have it noted in the
> documentation.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> > Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> How could I miss that?
> >>
> >> I used the command customize-variable and I was trying to auto-complete with TAB
> >> something similar to "org-preview" or "org--preview".  Now I see that the
> >> options are in the group Org Latex.
> >>
> >> May I suggest that these two variables are mentioned in the documentation of the
> >> org-preview-latex-fragment function?
> >>
> >
> > This is the second time in the last couple of weeks that somebody looked
> > for this and did not find it. Nicolas Goaziou had a very similar
> > reaction (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17544 for
> > more). So it seems that the option is indeed well hidden :-) I'd second
> > the motion to add a mention of org-format-latex-options in the function
> > doc and perhaps add a more extended mention in section 11.4 of the
> > manual ("Processing LaTeX fragments") as well. Here is some suggested
> > text:
> >
> > ,----
> > | ...
> > | `C-c C-c'
> > |      Remove the overlay preview images.
> > |
> > |    You can customize the variable `org-format-latex-options' to
> > | influence some aspects of the preview. In particular, the :scale (and
> > | for HTML export, :html-scale) property can be used to adjust the
> > | size of the preview images.
> > |
> > |    During HTML export (*note HTML export::), all LaTeX fragments are
> > | ...
> > `----
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

I guess I'm the one to blame. Sorry about that Paul. Since it was something
related to dvipng I simply "ansered the E-Mail" with my question instead of
creating another thread.
-- 
Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
darcamo@gmail.com