On Tuesday, October 27th, 2026 at 02:04, Karthik Chikmagalur <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like the preview was produced fine, but wasn't displayed in > Emacs for some reason. Can you run the check-health function provided > in this GitHub gist and let me know the output? > > https://gist.github.com/karthink/0ac48411a81459c0f3fd7557c4e817db Aha! "Emacs was not compiled with SVG support"! That never occurred to me. (Perhaps it's worth showing a warning to others who try to use the feature but don't have SVG support, if that's possible?) I'm on Ubuntu, so I ran "sudo apt install librsvg2-dev" and rebuilt Emacs and now it works. And it looks great. Thank you for all your help with this! I appreciate the time you took. Bill # ----- Your LaTeX preview process Precompile with latex → LaTeX Compile with pdflatex → Convert to SVG with dvisvgm pdflatex pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.28 (TeX Live 2025/Debian) /usr/bin/pdflatex dvisvgm dvisvgm 3.6 /usr/bin/dvisvgm Error: Emacs was not compiled with SVG support, images cannot be displayed with dvisvgmLaTeX preview options • Precompilation ON • Equation renumbering ON • Caching with org-persist ON ... # ----- -- William Denton https://www.miskatonic.org/ Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator. Toronto, Canada
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