Re: okular "cannot find latex executable"
On Thursday, April 19, 2018 3:22:26 PM CEST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
Meyer wrote:
> El miércoles, 18 de abril de 2018 16:38:37 -03 Luigi Toscano escribió:
> > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer ha scritto:
> > > El miércoles, 18 de abril de 2018 12:31:28 -03 inkbottle escribió:
> > >> However the resulting Okular behavior is far from satisfactory:
> > >> The inline note shows only the latex code: in order to see the result
> > >> of
> > >> it, one has to first double click the inline note, and then to click on
> > >> "render latex code"; which is far from providing an immediate and
> > >> intuitive view of the formulas.
> > >>
> > >> However, again, that could be use to compensate that poppler's utf8
> > >> related
> > >> bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65956
> > >>
> > >> Provided one possibly modify
> > >> https://github.com/KDE/okular/blob/2aa006fa87240a89ff8446744ccd9f86a48c
> > >> 8d
> > >> d0/ ui/latexrenderer.cpp through the addition of latex packages to
> > >> render
> > >> desired fonts;
> > >> not sure it is so easy, but is is probably easier than fixing a 5 years
> > >> old
> > >> poppler's bug.
> > >
> > > Maybe suggesting this to upstream?
> >
> > It would not fix the bug anyway: you don't want to strictly depend on a
> > (huge deployment of) latex for this.
>
> Indeed, this is true.
So it boils done to a functionality: not very useful, not working very well,
and enabling it could clutter the system.
Which lead to a very straightforward bug reporting course of action: doing
noting. I like it.
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