Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Try to colorize preview (was Re: Asking help for preview-latex)

[David Kastrup]

Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David,
>
>>>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I hope that David comments on this issue.  In particular, I'd like to
>>> know, or to know to how to judge, whether "the initial colors set up
>>> inside of Ghostscript" still interfere with color.sty or not.
>
>> It's been so long ago that I did this stuff that I don't really remember
>> the details.  What may be the case is
>
>> forcing the loading of color.sty is heavy-handed, may bind the output to
>> a particular backend (there is, for example, dvipdf for generating PDF
>> from DVI, a valid option of further DVI processing) and may be
>> incompatible with other color options like using xcolor.sty (or whatever
>> it was called).
>
>> Also color.sty produces additional special codes that may interact with
>> typesetting.
>
>> Doing this at the Ghostscript level instead did not mess with the LaTeX
>> processing.
>
> Thanks, I'll search some way to minimize the impact of forced loading of
> color.sty along with the idea Jean proposed.
>
>> I am not sure whether searching in the bug mailing list will turn up the
>> problems that triggered going via this path.
>
> The links to the old archives of AUCTeX-related ML listed on
> https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/mailing-lists.html
> are all dead (dir.gmane.org is not respoding), so it seems impossible to
> search in these old archives...

The gnu list server has its own search functions.  You don't need to go
via gmane.

-- 
David Kastrup