Re: okular "cannot find latex executable"
inkbottle ha scritto:
> 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.
>
>
What I don't like it is when someone reads what I didn't write.
I didn't say that that adding an optional dependency on latex is a problem.
I wrote that this is not *the* solution, because most of the deployments
don't, won't and can't have latex.
--
Luigi
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