Re: [AUCTeX] preview vs beamer

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> Nicolas Richard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Nicolas,
>
>>> address@hidden writes:
>>>> | ! Undefined control sequence.
>>>> | address@hidden@Output address@hidden@Shipout 
>>>> |                                                   \box address@hidden 
>>>> | l.5 \end{document}
>>>> |                   
>>
>>> I can reproduce that but I don't know how to fix it. :-(
>>
>> I stumbled accross the very same problem today, when updating to TL2014
>> (I was still with TL2012 before that).
>>
>> It seems that pgf is at fault, see :
>> http://pgf-and-tikz.10981.n7.nabble.com/TikZ-3-0-amp-preview-td4770.html
>> for a workaround.
>>
>> Now this raises a question : why would pgf try to fix a compatibility
>> problem between preview and everyshi... I have no idea. They claim (in
>> my pgfutil-latex.def file) :
>> % Preview hack: preview.sty hacks into \shipout (which is ok), but
>> % does not honour everyshi.sty (which is not ok). This causes everyshi
>> % material to get lost.
>>
>> Perhaps preview-latex needs fixing in this area ? I don't know.
>
> Me neither.  Maybe David can have a look at this issue.

Well, if tikz tries to fix the combination of preview and everyshi and
fails, I think it would be wrong to try fixing the failed fix from
outside of tikz.  The only thing that has a reasonable chance of working
in the long run is to make preview and everyshi combine better.

-- 
David Kastrup