BUG?: org-preview-latex-default-process: imagemagick: cannot use latexmk -f pdf

[Uwe Brauer via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>]

Hi

I prefer to  open  a new thread for this.

    - I set org-preview-latex-default-process 

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org-preview-latex-default-process is a variable defined in ‘org.el’.
Its value is ‘imagemagick’
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    - The corresponding latex-compiler is 

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("pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f")
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     - Take the simple example 

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\begin{equation*}
  A^{0}=
  \begin{array}{cccc}
    -m^{00}& 0 & 0 & 0\\
    \hline
    0 & 0 & &\\
    0 & & & \\
    0 & & & \\
  \end{array}
\end{equation*}
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The conversion works!


    - Then I change the compiler to 
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("latexmk  -f -pdf -output-directory %o %f")

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But, then I receive the following error:

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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "File \"/tmp/orgtexX2KSUz.pdf\" wasn’t produced.  Please adjust ‘imagemagick’ part of ‘org-preview-latex-process-alist’.")
  signal(error ("File \"/tmp/orgtexX2KSUz.pdf\" wasn’t produced.  Please adjust ‘imagemagick’ part of ‘org-preview-latex-process-alist’."))
  error("File \"/tmp/orgtexX2KSUz.pdf\" wasn't produced.  Please adjust `imagemagick' part of `org-preview-latex-process-alist'.")
  org-compile-file("/tmp/orgtexX2KSUz.tex" ("latexmk  -f -pdf  -output-directory %o %f") "pdf" "Please adjust `imagemagick' part of `org-preview-latex-process-alist'." #<buffer *Org Preview LaTeX Output*>)
  org-create-formula-image("\\begin{equation*}\n  A^{0}=\n  \\begin{array}{cccc}\n    -m^{00}& 0 & 0 & 0\\\\\n    \\hline\n    0 & 0 & &\\\\\n    0 & & & \\\\\n    0 & & & \\\\\n  \\end{array}\n\\end{equation*}\n" "/home/oub/ALLES/HGs/HG-Org/BUGS/ltximg/org-ltximg_..." (:foreground "black" :background "grey98" :scale 1.5 :html-foreground "Black" :html-background "Transparent" :html-scale 1 :matchers ("begin" "$1" "$" "$$" "\\(" "\\[")) forbuffer imagemagick)
  org-format-latex("ltximg/org-ltximg" 405 569 "/home/oub/ALLES/HGs/HG-Org/BUGS/" overlays nil forbuffer imagemagick)
  org--latex-preview-region(405 569)
  org-latex-preview(nil)
  funcall-interactively(org-latex-preview nil)
  call-interactively(org-latex-preview nil nil)
  command-execute(org-latex-preview)
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However the file generated  /tmp/orgtexX2KSUz.tex

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\usepackage[numbered,framed]{matlab-prettifier}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
% Package longtable omitted
% Package wrapfig omitted
% Package rotating omitted
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
% Package capt-of omitted
% Package hyperref omitted
\pagestyle{empty}             % do not remove
% The settings below are copied from fullpage.sty
\usepackage{a4wide}
\usepackage{mymathmatrix}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\newcolumntype{C}{c}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{mdframed}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-2.54cm}
\graphicspath{{./images/}} 

\begin{document}
\definecolor{fg}{rgb}{0,0,0}%
\definecolor{bg}{rgb}{0.980392,0.980392,0.980392}%

\pagecolor{bg}%

{\color{fg}
\begin{equation*}
  A^{0}=
  \begin{array}{cccc}
    -m^{00}& 0 & 0 & 0\\
    \hline
    0 & 0 & &\\
    0 & & & \\
    0 & & & \\
  \end{array}
\end{equation*}
%
}

\end{document}
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Can be perfectly compiled from the command line with 
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latexmk  -f -pdf 
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So I ask: is this a BUG?

Uwe Brauer 


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