[Bug-AUCTeX] The preview package should work with Xe(La)TeX

[Dennis Heidsiek]

Dear Mr. Kastrup,


i have an issue with your very usefull “preview” latex package: It works 
perfect with pdflatex as TeX-engine, but if one uses xelatex 
(XeTeX-Engine) instead, the borders of the preview environment aren’t 
correctly determined: Instead, the full paper size is used and the 
content is displaced; parts are even above the upper margin.

I tried to create a minimal example for this Problem; you can find it in 
the compressed appendix of this email.

It uses also the TikZ-Package since i originally tried to produce a 
XeTeX-Example for the TikZ-example-gallery⁰ (where your preview package 
is extensively used).

After searching in the bug-auctex-mailinglist, i found out that Ralf 
Angeli already worked on a patch for this problem in July¹. Is there any 
hope that this will find it’s way into the repository soon? And does it 
works with TikZ?

At least, it would be great if you would consider to update the (then 
hopefully XeTeX-capable) version at CTAN; the SVN-Log of preview.dtx² 
says that you immigrated the licence from GPL 2 to GPL 3—i think that 
this change alone would deserve a new realease.

Finally, i want to thank you very much for your previous work on this 
very usefull LaTeX package—and i hope that this email doesn’t bothered 
you too much.


With best greetings from Germany,
Dennis Heidsiek


PS: Just for completeness: I’m using Windows XP (but feeling moderate 
guilty of not using GNU/Linux), the current MiKTeX 2.8 distribution and 
the latest version of TikZ/pgf.

PPS: Also best Greetings from Adelheid Grob (Ulm, Germany)!


⁰ http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/
¹ http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/index.html#01322
² 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/auctex/auctex/preview/latex/preview.dtx?view=log

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