Math preview tricky to set up on miktex - needs luatex85

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Math preview tricky to set up on miktex - needs luatex85 #1187

Open msiniscalchi opened 7 years ago

msiniscalchi commented 7 years ago

The subject line says it all. More detail:

Unlike MacTeX, miktex does not install the full TeXlive distribution, but has a nifty autoload feature: packages are downloaded on-the-fly. This generally works well when compiling under LaTeXTools.
For some reason, this does not seem to be the case when a math preview is generated. The debug output shows a well-formed standalone tex file, but the log file is truncated.
I compiled the standalone tex file as if it was a regular tex source file, and voila'---the missing package (luatex85) was installed.
Now math preview works.
(This is from memory): actually, it took me a while to fix this problem. The system check is very useful to ensure that the right binaries are in place. So, I figured the issue was missing packages. Indeed, just bu looking at the debug output, I figured I had to install the standalone package. However, the luatex package is probably required by some other package, so it's not visible (and apparently miktex does not do dependency checking, or does not do it the right way).

Obviously this is not ideal from the user's standpoint. Perhaps the system check could try to compile a standalone tex file to see what happens.

Finally this is a separate issue, but math preview seems pretty slow on all of my machines. By comparison, Overleaf (which is a web app!!) displays previews for all the equations in a document, and compilation of equations happens almost instantly. Just something to think about.

r-stein commented 7 years ago

Obviously this is not ideal from the user's standpoint. Perhaps the system check could try to compile a standalone tex file to see what happens.

I also thought about something like this, but don't think system check should trigger anything since it is just a check. We could add an additional button the phantom like

(Manual Compilation) (Check System) (Show Report)

So you can trigger the compilation from the phantom.

Finally this is a separate issue, but math preview seems pretty slow on all of my machines. By comparison, Overleaf (which is a web app!!) displays previews for all the equations in a document, and compilation of equations happens almost instantly. Just something to think about.

I assume overleaf uses the javascript library MathJax for this preview. This is way faster, because it does not need an additional program and is less complex and powerful. Since we use python and only have a subset of html we can't use that.

ig0774 commented 7 years ago

So compiling a document like the one we use to generate previews with \listfiles, I get this list:

File Name
`standalone.cls`
`ifluatex.sty`
`ifpdf.sty`
`ifxetex.sty`
`xkeyval.sty`
`xkeyval.tex`
`standalone.cfg`
`article.cls`
`size10.clo`
`preview.sty`
`luatex85.sty`
`prtightpage.def`
`xcolor.sty`
`color.cfg`
`pdftex.def`
`amsmath.sty`
`amstext.sty`
`amsgen.sty`
`amsbsy.sty`
`amsopn.sty`
`amssymb.sty`
`amsfonts.sty`
`latexsym.sty`
`mathtools.sty`
`calc.sty`
`mhsetup.sty`
`supp-pdf.mkii`
`graphicx.sty`
`graphics.sty`
`trig.sty`
`graphics.cfg`
`umsa.fd`
`umsb.fd`
`ulasy.fd`

I suppose it'd be easy to hard-code the rest of this list---at least the sty files---into the System Check.