Re: CTAN update (Re: bug#71690: 14.0.5; preview-latex clips bold text with inline equations)

[Arash Esbati]

Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp> writes:

> Probably, yes. ELPA AUCTeX stores preview package under
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-x.y.z/latex and most users wouldn't add it to
> kpathsea search path.

Maybe we should release AUCTeX 14.0.6 and push a corresponding
preview.dtx to CTAN?

For that, we need some additions to GNUmakefile on the main branch, I
think.  A starting point can look like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 617daea1..a7bb0dc9 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -137,6 +137,18 @@ $(LATEX_FILES): latex/preview.dtx latex/bootstrap.ins
        cd latex; $(TEX) '\nonstopmode \input bootstrap.ins'
        cd latex; $(TEX) '\nonstopmode \input preview-mk.ins'

+# Only for standalone preview.sty package:
+preview.ins: latex/preview.dtx
+       cd latex; rm -f $@; \
+       $(TEX) '\nonstopmode\def\jobname{.ins}\input docstrip ' \
+       '\generate{\file{preview.ins}{\from{preview.dtx}{installer}}}' \
+       '\endbatchfile'
+
+preview-ctan: preview.ins
+       cd latex; \
+       tar -cz --owner=root --group=root \
+       -f preview.tar.gz README preview.dtx preview.ins
+
 DYNVARSFILES = *.dynvars style/*.dynvars auctex-dynvars
 dynvars-check:
        rm -f $(wildcard *.elc) $(wildcard style/*.elc) $(DYNVARSFILES)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But we still need some rules in order to create the preview.pdf file
which is required for a CTAN release, IIUC.  I'll try to have a look,
but wouldn't mind if someone more fluent in make could also check ;-)

Best, Arash