Dylan Thurston <d...@bostoncoop.net> writes: > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Arash Esbati wrote: >> >> Thanks for the link. I think we should add something to the manual of >> preview.sty about the problem and the solution. WDYT, would it make >> sense? > > That would be great!
I finally managed to add an entry to preview-faq.texi (commit ff03bccb38). --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- diff --git a/doc/preview-faq.texi b/doc/preview-faq.texi index 95d70f05..38044af6 100644 --- a/doc/preview-faq.texi +++ b/doc/preview-faq.texi @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ Emacs. It is known to work under the X Window System for Linux and for several flavors of Unix: we have reports for HP and Solaris. -There are several development versions of Emacs around for native MacOS -Carbon, and @previewlatex{} is working with them, too. +There are several versions of Emacs around for macOS, and @previewlatex{} +is working with them, too. With Windows, both native Emacs and Cygwin Emacs should work. However, it is known that @url{https://miktex.org/,MiK@TeX{}} sometimes doesn't work @@ -210,6 +210,35 @@ facilities of @file{preview.sty} to tell it how to resolve this, whether you want no previews, previews of whole slides or previews of inner material. +@subsection Does @previewlatex{} work with the TikZ package? + +@previewlatex{} doesn't have support for the @code{tikzpicture} +environment built-in. It can be included manually by adding the lines: +@example +\usepackage[displaymath,sections,graphics,floats,textmath]@{preview@} +\PreviewEnvironment[@{[]@}]@{tikzpicture@} +@end example + +@noindent +to the document preamble. + +Things get more complicated when the code inside the @code{tikzpicture} +environment contains @code{$ $} for inserting inline math and +@previewlatex{} is instructed to insert previews for it into the buffer. +In this case, you can disable previews for inline math by changing the +lines above to: +@example +\usepackage[displaymath,sections,graphics,floats + % textmath %% Don't preview inline math +]@{preview@} +\PreviewEnvironment[@{[]@}]@{tikzpicture@} +@end example + +Another solution is to source out the TikZ pictures into an external file +which uses the @code{standalone} class, process them and insert them back +into the main file as figures with the @code{\includegraphics} macro. In +this case, previewing of inline math will work as usual. + @node Troubleshooting, Other formats, Customization, Frequently Asked Questions @section Troubleshooting --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > If you wanted to get really fancy, you could even do it automatically, > if given some appropriate option when the environment is loaded. (Or > maybe even always? Does it make sense to reset the meaning of '$' in > other circumstances?) I refrained from doing something like that since I can't tell about possible side effects. I'm therefore closing this report. Best, Arash _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list bug-auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex