Hi Nick,
On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:
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).
These are valid points!
However:
- Fullpage is a trivial ad very small package that only
changes margins. Even if it changes at some point, there is no
reason
for Org to follow this change.
- I'd like to have few dependencies if possible.
- People who use strike-through faces should know better :-)
Well, I know there are exceptions where this does make sense.
The bad thing about packages that are in some TeX distros, but not
in others, is that you have to start documenting these dependencies
on a system-by-system basis, and I'd rather not go there, if possible.
If soul.sty is a non-guaranteed dependency, we should document it.
Where?
Maybe I should make the use of soul.sty dependend on the use of strike-
through
stuff in the file....
- Carsten
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