Re: TeX-macro-global/--with-tex-input-dirs

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-01-15) writes:
>
>> Well, we can't really detect where to install preview.sty and friends
>> in that manner: that needs to get done at installation time.  So we
>> better not rip out everything until after the merge.
>>
>> What we will probably have to do at some point of time is the
>> following:
>>
>> 1) install preview.sty and stuff somewhere in the Emacs tree and and
>> then do either
>>
>> a) adjust TEXINPUTS appropriately
>>
>> b) do our own \RequirePackage command including the complete path.
>>
>> If we do b) that has the disadvantage that placing
>> \usepackage{preview} in the document will probably load a different
>> file.  If we do a) that has the disadvantage that compiling TeX
>> files might cause different results from inside of Emacs and
>> outside.
>
> I like the idea that one does not have to put a
> "\usepackage{preview}" into the document.

Bing, your wish has been granted.  This is now done via
preview-default-preamble.

> What would be needed in addition would be a way to specify the
> different options preview.sty provides.

Bing, your wish has been granted.  preview-default-option-list exists
now.

> What could make trouble is stuff like \PreviewMacro if the file is
> compiled outside of Emacs.

Bing, your wish has been granted.  Put stuff like that into
prauctex.def in the way the documentation recommends.

Looks like it is high time preview-latex get integrated into AUCTeX so
that people take a look at it some time or other...

But we'll still have to stuff preview.sty and its friends somewhere.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum