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Re: [O] [bug] latex fragment preview with dvipng ignores :foreground spe
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Nick Dokos |
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Re: [O] [bug] latex fragment preview with dvipng ignores :foreground specification |
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Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:32:48 -0500 |
Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use org-tree-slide for an interactive session I have to
> facilitate soon. This works quite well, in a geeky kind of way ;-)
>
> However, I do want to display a couple of equations and using latex
> fragments is the most appealing mechanism. When I try to use
> org-preview-latex-fragment, the latex image is
> generated. Unfortunately, as I use a black background on my display, I
> cannot see the fragment as it is being generated with black text on a
> transparent background by default. Note, I am using dvipng for the
> image conversion.
>
I tried the imagemagick setting, set the options variable to black background
and red foreground - lo and behold, that's what I get in the preview.
Nick
> I can customise org-format-latex-options to fix this, or so I
> thought. No matter what I do, the resulting latex fragment has black
> text. The problem appears to be that the -fg option to dvipng does not
> work so it doesn't matter how I customise org-format-latex-options.
>
> Can anybody suggest a workaround (without changing the actual latex
> itself)? I can customise the above variable to set the background for
> latex images to white, which at least allows the equations to be seen,
> but this is a mildly ugly solution. :( And ruins any geek street cred I
> might have had ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
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>
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