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[O] Bug: Windows-unfriendly filename in org-preview-latex-process-alist


From: Scott Otterson
Subject: [O] Bug: Windows-unfriendly filename in org-preview-latex-process-alist customization
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 16:41:08 +0100

In my Windows build of emacs, when I put the cursor in a latex equation and run

M-x org-toggle-latex-fragment

then things chug along for a second but then fail.  In the *Org Preview LaTex Output* buffer, I see the message:

This is dvipng 1.15 Copyright 2002-2015 Jan-Ake Larsson
[1 
dvipng: Fatal error, cannot open output file c:/Users/scott/AppData/Local/Temp/"orgtex4628hQG.png
 
The reason for the failure is the leftover quote (...Temp/"orgtex...) in the expected png output file.  With some hackery, I can see that the command that's being run is:

dvipng -fg "rgb 0 0 0" -bg "rgb 1 1 1" -D "102.0" -T tight -o "c:/Users/scott/AppData/Local/Temp/""orgtex4628hQG".png "c:/Users/scott/AppData/Local/Temp/orgtex4628hQG.dvi"

If I paste that into a cygwin xterm, it runs fine on the .dvi file that's still in the Temp directory.  But the command fails in a Windows cmd window; if I remove the extra quotes, then the command works in the cmd window too.

The extra quote comes from the default customization for the dvipng image-converter field of org-preview-latex-process-alist:

dvipng -fg %F -bg %B -D %D -T tight -o %o%b.png %f

where the %o%b part of the customization concatenates two strings that are already quoted. That's OK for *nix but apparently not for Windows.

I don't see a way to change the customization to fix this; can anyone take a look at the elisp?

Thanks,

Scott

--- A test org file --------------

* Put cursor in the equation below and type C-c C-x C-l

\[
e^{i\pi} = -1
\]

--- My setup ---------------
Emacs  : GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-w64-mingw32) of 2016-09-17
Package: Org mode version 9.0.1 (9.0.1-elpaplus @ c:/Users/scott/OneDrive/scotto/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20161118/)


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