Re: [AUCTeX] preview vs beamer

[Nicolas Richard]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:
> Nicolas Richard <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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.

Just a few more words meanwhile : after using the workaround, I was
experiencing weird issues with preview (namely, it included postscript
errors in some particular conditions, and sometimes would show the
preview for the wrong snippet).

After an awful lot of time of debugging, I ended up removing pgf's "fix"
altogether, and that fixed all my problems. Looking at it more closely,
I am under the impression that this "fix" simply drops preview's code.

That code was introcuded in
http://pgf.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pgf/pgf/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-latex.def?r1=1.28&r2=1.29
which claims has "fixed bug #158". OTOH,
http://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/158/ doesn't look related to preview.

In fact, it's a bug that was already reported to pgf with another
fix/workaround, solving both issues :
http://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/316/

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Nicolas Richard