Why not LuaLaTeX? Which seems to be where the world is going now?
PDFLaTeX is of course faster. el On 11/10/2022 22:35, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:17:28 +0200 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org>: >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: >>> >>> >>> As it is now, we have 'latex' as default for our previews. But at least >>> opening UserGuide.lyx fails because >>> 1.) call to dvipdf coredumpts >>> 2.) calls to epstopdf fail (because underlined 'gs' coredumpts) >>> >>> The reason is probably that the created lyxpreviewXXXXXX.dvi-file seems to >>> contain >>> invalid entries, so the (from dvips) created eps files are not readable >>> with gs. >>> >>> The simple change in src/graphics/PreviewLoader.cpp cures the preview. >>> (Not changed the comments yet though) >> >> I am against for the reasons explained in bug 9371. Sometimes external >> software introduces regressions and those should be corrected. We don't >> need changing our code to solve problems introduced by external >> software, otherwise we always have to continuosly change the code to >> track others' bugs. >> > > Since newest dvipdf, gs (from debian), dvipng (from ctan) show the same > reaction, > the error is presumably in latex (TL2022) output. Maybe the dvi-output of > latex has not > too much attention anymore. > > Apropos, in ticket 9371, the default is first proposed to pdflatex too. > Anyway, we suffer now for months from this behaviour. > > Kornel > > -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el' -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
