Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; \smash command makes preview image blank

[David Kastrup]

"Tim Toolan" <address@hidden> writes:

> Remember to cover the basics.  Including a minimal LaTeX example
> file exhibiting the problem might help.
>
> When using \smash, the preview image is blank.

No, it isn't.  It's smashed.  Has no height.

> A simple example that illustrates this problem is:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> This is not smashed $\tilde{F}$ and this is smashed $\smash{\tilde{F}}$.
> \end{document}
>
> Note that when previewing, the first \tilde{F} will appear correctly,
> and the second one will be missing.  I am not sure what the best
> solution to this is, but redefining the \smash command to do nothing
> before generating the images would probably fix it.

The solution is not to use \smash when you don't mean it.  Otherwise it
will also cause collisions with text and other things.  There is not
anything sensible we can do: \smash is used in fractions and other stuff
for fixing vertical spacing, and we don't want to interfere there.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum