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Re: [AUCTeX] preview background
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [AUCTeX] preview background |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:33:02 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jan-Ake Larsson <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> And honestly: what do you expect short of magic? If your color scheme
>> is different on paper and in the editor, there is not too much one can
>> hope for. We get the basic text case without color changes catered
>> for.
>
> I'd like to add that I think that white-on-black mathematics look
> terrible. Especially as a preview, white-on-black onscreen and
> black-on-white onwhatever give very different visual impressions.
I find that even pink on green or similar works quite better than
white-on-black. So maybe this is a problem with the suitability of
rendering/antialiasing/gamma correction mechanisms and could be
improved to a point where it is tolerable.
> Determining the "good" format of this-and-that expression is useless
> in white-on-black since the looks are completely different when
> inverted. preview-latex is one of the (good!) reasons I changed to
> black-on-white in emacs years ago.
Well, I guess at the time you changed, white-on-black really was not
supported by preview-latex at all. But the problem remains that
preview-latex, after all, is a WYSIWYG tool, and large departures from
the paper look are not easy to reconcile on the screen.
I think we do a reasonable job. A more thorough possibility would be
to do this with color transfer functions, but frankly, how do you then
convert a color pie chart from black-on-white to pink-on-green? Where
does red go?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum