Dear David, this is a good question. I didn't want to push but just point out the relevance of the issue, believing that you feel a personal appreciation (and/or certain responsibility) for a code you officially maintain.
If I had the expertise to fix the code on my own, I would not have spent the time to find and bother you, but better invest it to produce the solution and propose it to you. If you ask for money - that could be a problem. I have no idea on the time needed to find the problem, to fix and to test it. Hiring a professional is probably beyond my budget as I am just an academics. As such, I am volunteering as well in multiple matters, trying to improve things - so I think when it comes to projects driven by enthusiastism, I share your engagement, but I don't think that a spirit of needing individual payments will lead to a better future for open source projects. If this was the way to go, I'd better buy a commercial text processor I can afford and stick with it. But I am in the weaker position and already spent lots of time in a LaTeX-based thesis, so please let me know a price, and I have to see... Thanks and best wishes, Tobias ________________________________ Von: David Kastrup <[email protected]> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021 00:58 An: Bruckmann, Tobias Cc: Ikumi Keita; [email protected]; [email protected] Betreff: Re: AW: AW: bug#45894: Bug report for preview-latex "Bruckmann, Tobias" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Ikumi, David > > this is a bad situation. I am quite surprised I am the first (and only?) one > to stumble across this: > - Most scientific works use vector EPS graphics. psfrag is extremely popular > in this field. > - Most works are published in PDF > - You can't get around hyperref > > The combination of pstool and pdfLaTeX seems to be the most promising > approach to me to join these points in one toolchain. Living with an old > version might work for some months, but this can't be the future. > > So there's no pathway and this toolchain is dead forever? > > Thanks for your appreciated comment, So what are you willing to invest to avert the catastrophe? In terms of procuring code or paying for the time of those who do? -- David Kastrup
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