On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:14:58AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > I saw you removed the .dtl file generation, I changed that from the first > patch > thinking that a DTL of 500 shouldn't stay in memory, however it's 133 kB for > Math.lyx, it shouldn't be a serious problem.
We are concerned about speed here, and any disk access can slow down things. Nowadays, a 200 or even a 500 kB file should not be a concern. > > There is a number of preview snippets failing in the math manual, but > > it seems that hyperref is the culprit here. For example, see: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/auctex/+bug/524961 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/auctex/+bug/592509 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267930 > > Don't know, we should try them with pdflatex, it worked with TikZ, but I think > it works just beacuse pdflatex ignores the errors while a raw call to > GhostScript fails, but I'm not sure. Do you think we should (or makes sense > to) > ask GhostScript developers to implement a switch to ignore errors? Don't know. It would suffice a switch for selecting specific pages, maybe. > In future we could better investigate this. However it's not a LyX problem, we > can't fix all the compatibility issues preview-latex has, except those we're > personally intrested in, like TikZ :D Eh, scratching personal itches is the FOSS driving force :) > Thanks for your support in this patch, Enrico! Thanks for the patch! -- Enrico
