From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: fullpage.sty replacement [WAS: Problem with LaTeX snippets preview] Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:48:21 -0400 Message-ID: <6137.1254206901@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <19133.64718.952772.302330@nitrogen.burtket> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsXTh-0007ty-4S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:50:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsXTb-0007tZ-Mv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:50:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43356 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsXTb-0007tW-HT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:50:23 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:6059) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsXTa-0000DQ-VM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:50:23 -0400 Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.11]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsXS7-0004PS-TS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:48:52 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([98.110.172.159]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KQQ00LUA07DKD70@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:47:38 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Carsten Dominik of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:10:51 +0200." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode My $0.02: Let me point out that a dependency on soul.sty was introduced in order to deal with strike-through emphasis in the LaTeX exporter. And guess where soul.sty resides (on Debian/Ubuntu): in the texlive-latex-extra package. So it seems to me that replacing the use of the fullpage package by its contents is not the best solution: it would be better to document the dependency (and other such dependencies). Keeping the dependency on fullpage.sty would also insulate org-mode from missing future changes to it - however unlikely that event happens to be. Also, the main difference between these two is that if soul.sty is not present, then when you try to process the exported latex file, you get an explicit error message that fingers the problem exactly, whereas without fullpage.sty, the preview failed silently. If the latter failure could be made visible, then the problem would be solved (and this solution would cover other similar failures as well). Thoughts? Thanks, Nick