Re: Bug report: org-preview-latex fails when using tramp

[Ihor Radchenko]

Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

> Confirmed.
>
> I just tried this by creating an Org file on a Debian server (I run OpenSUSE
> with TexLive 2021). From looking at the `*Org Preview LaTeX Output*' buffer, 
> it
> appears that the temp file is created on my local machine, and then the 
> process
> is called on the remote machine.
>
> ┌────
> │ This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian) 
> (preloaded format=latex)
> │  restricted \write18 enabled.
> │ entering extended mode
> │ ! I can't find file `/tmp/orgtexToEnS4.tex'.
> └────
>
> Having a look at `org-create-formula-image', I suspect this is due to the
> `make-temp-name' call at
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/tree/lisp/org.el#n16521>.
> Perhaps `tramp-make-tramp-temp-name' could be useful?

But will it be efficient? We will need to transfer images between the
remote host and the Emacs host.

Should we instead arrange the LaTeX call to be done on user side all the
time?

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