Re: [AUCTeX] First preview image is of full page size

[David Kastrup]

Joost Kremers <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Tassilo,
>
> On Thu, Aug 27 2015, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Joost Kremers <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Here's a MWE:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> \documentclass{scrbook}
>>>
>>> \begin{document}
>>>
>>>      \[
>>>         \frac{d}{dx}\left( \int_{0}^{x} f(u)\,du\right)=f(x).
>>>      \]
>>>
>>> \end{document}
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Preview that with `TeX-engine` set to `xetex` and you should see the
>>> problem.  Changing `scrbook` to `book`, or using the default engine
>>> should make it go away again.
>>
>> Indeed, I can reproduce that.  And looking at the output, always the
>> snippet which will be shown as a complete page has this "Preview:
>> Tightpage..." line.
>
> Thanks for confirming, that means I at least don't have to dig any
> further for conflicting Emacs options.
>
>>> Anyway, I hope you can reproduce the problem now and can figure out
>>> what's going on. Thanks!
>>
>> I can reproduce it but preview is some kind of black magic for me.  So
>> hopefully someone else can have a look at this.
>
> I'm guessing the only one that really understands what's going on might
> be David Kastrup himself...

I have never used XeTeX so I don't actually have much of a clue here.
It's also suspicious that it requires scrbook to trigger.

-- 
David Kastrup