Re: org-mime-htmlize: visual representation (thunderbird)

[Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Hello
>
> Now that the bug in org-mime-htmlize is fixed, I would like
> to comment on the visual representation. Most likely this
> has to do with the mml package.
>
> When I write the following message 
> Integral
>
>
> $$\int fdx=0$$
> And
>
>
> \begin{equation} 
> \sum_{\alpha} 
> \end{equation}
>
> and apply org-preview-latex-fragment and then
> org-mime-htmlize and send this message to gmail. 
> The 'gmail-reader' displays them fine.
>
> However thunderbird does not and I apply the resulting eml 
> file below (I presume a screenshot is not appropriated)
>

This sounds like a thunderbird bug -- not properly displaying multi-part
messages.

>
> Now tunderbird itself has an extension (latex-it) which does
> something similar to org-mime-htmlize, it sends latex math
> as png. However there are "better* displayed, I attach the
> relevant eml file below.
>

The difference between org-mime-htmlize and latex-it is that the former
converts each formulas to its own png image, while the later converts
the entire message to one large pdf file which is then attached as a
single image.

>
> Could org-mime-htmlize use the structure of latex-it?
>

The ability to convert the entire message to one monolithic image
(through latex and pdf) could certainly be added as an export option
(patches welcome), but I would not want this behavior to be the default,
as sending messages as large images is not (to my mind at least) a
desirable option.

Best,

>
> Thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer 
>
> Attachments: first org, then latex-it
>
>
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Subject: test-org-mime
> To: Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:55:48 +0200 (4 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes ago)
> Reply-To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
>
> Integral 
>
> $$\int fdx=0$$ 
> And
>
> \begin{equation}
> \sum_{\alpha}
> \end{equation}
>
>
> ----------
>
>
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub@gmail.com>
> Subject: test latex
> To: Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:43:30 +0200 (4 days, 6 hours, 26 minutes ago)
>
>    \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \pagestyle{empty}
>    \begin{document} Integral $$\int f dx=0$$ And \begin{equation}
>    \sum_{\alpha} \end{equation} \end{document}
> ----------
>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/