Enrico Forestieri wrote: [ snip the results of some impressive detective work ]
> Angus, in a previous post you said that "they're messing up the output > that they devised for us" and indeed this seems to be the case. > However, I don't know what "our" agreement was, so I would be grateful > if you could report to them the story... "Our" agreement was simply that David Kastrup and, to a lesser extent, Jan-Åke Larsson created all the hooks needed by LyX in preview.sty and in dvipng. They'll certainly remember, albeit hazily. I was a PITA (that's "their arses") for a couple of months ;-) I'm afraid I'm extremely busy tying up lose ends ATM before I start a new job on Monday. Please contact them on the AucTeX mailing list; you'll tell the story so much better than I could ;-) > Then, still there is the problem that if a font is missing, the output > of the programs that are in charge to generate it is mixed to the > stdout of dvipng, thus confusing lyxpreview2bitmap.py. I think that > they should be launched redirecting their stdout to stderr. Sounds reasonable. Get them to do so and then add a test to lyxpreview2bitmap.py for dvipng version >= 1.8 (as it perhaps will be) and you're done. Welcome to the LyX developer team ;-) -- Angus
