Hi Matt,

> However, I noticed that there appears to be another (large) patch in the
> works that also does this (email subject line “Overhaul of the LaTeX
> preview system”). That’s a long thread and I haven’t followed it. Is
> there still scope for my change? Is it worth getting this in?

So, in the large patch (actually ~150 patches in a branch), we actually
have had baseline alignment implemented for the last ~year 🙂.

Currently it’s just being polished up so it’s good to merge, you can see a list
of todo tasks we’d like to get sorted first here:
<https://github.com/tecosaur/org-latex-preview-todos/issues>

All the best,
Timothy

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