[RFC] latex preview and pdflatex-only packages (was: org-latex-preview, pNiceArray (running latex twice))

[Ihor Radchenko]

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

>> dvipng previews expect .dvi files, not .pdf. You must use
>
>> ("latexmk  -f -latex -output-directory=%o %f")
>
>> Except that latex does not produce the desired result, which indicates
>> that you are using some very strange package that is not compatible with
>> latex.
>
> Well, there are a couple of packages that explicitly state that they
> only work with pdflatex, nicematrix, todonotes and ocgx for example

This is a surprise.

Are there packages that are an opposite - do not work with pdflatex, but
work with bare latex?

Karthik, any thoughts on this?

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