Re: [AUCTeX] First preview image is of full page size

[Joost Kremers]

Hi Tassilo,

On Thu, Aug 27 2015, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joost Kremers <address@hidden> writes:
>> Here's a MWE:
>>
>> ```
>> \documentclass{scrbook}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>>      \[
>>         \frac{d}{dx}\left( \int_{0}^{x} f(u)\,du\right)=f(x).
>>      \]
>>
>> \end{document}
>> ```
>>
>> Preview that with `TeX-engine` set to `xetex` and you should see the
>> problem.  Changing `scrbook` to `book`, or using the default engine
>> should make it go away again.
>
> Indeed, I can reproduce that.  And looking at the output, always the
> snippet which will be shown as a complete page has this "Preview:
> Tightpage..." line.

Thanks for confirming, that means I at least don't have to dig any
further for conflicting Emacs options.

>> Anyway, I hope you can reproduce the problem now and can figure out
>> what's going on. Thanks!
>
> I can reproduce it but preview is some kind of black magic for me.  So
> hopefully someone else can have a look at this.

I'm guessing the only one that really understands what's going on might
be David Kastrup himself... Hopefully he'll find some time to look at
it. As a workaround, though, I'll just use the book class as long as I'm
writing and change it to scrbook when I do the final compilation and
layout.

Thanks,

Joost




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