Re: [O] [BUG] org-create-formula-image requires 'gs' when it doesn't look like to be necessary (causing issues on Windows)

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Rick Frankel <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:02:00AM -0500, Frederick Giasson wrote:
>> > Do you mean that "gs" could be removed from all entries in
>> > `org-preview-latex-process-alist'?
>> > 
>> > I'm Cc'ing Feng Shu, who implemented the new LaTeX preview mechanism. He
>> > hopefully knows why this dependency was introduced in the first place.
>> 
>> I think so yes, at least on Windows (didn't try on Linux nor OSX)
>
> I've checked all three converters on os x as well (but not linux). ghostscript
> is included an a dependency for all of them, so won't work on osx w/o
> explicitly installing ghostscript, but in fact, work fine w/o it. I am not
> sure why it has been set for each converter as a dependency since it does not
> seem to be used by any of the conversion chains. As an aside, it is not
> mentioned in the documentation (info).

Fair enough. I removed the dependency.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou