which looked just like the wall of text I was seeing in emacs.
The issue seems to be that the deprecation warning at the top (which comes on stderr) is getting intermingled with the svg (which comes on stdout), and org-latex-impatient doesn't separate stdout from stderr.
I have submitted a PR (#22) that directs stderr to its own buffer so that the output of tex2svg is once again valid svg, but wanted to raise it as an issue as well in case others are encountering the same problem.
I tried to use
org-latex-impatient
, but the popup buffer that I get just looks like a tiny wall of text.In the process of debugging, I called
tex2svg x^2
from the commandline and noticed output like this:which looked just like the wall of text I was seeing in emacs.
The issue seems to be that the deprecation warning at the top (which comes on stderr) is getting intermingled with the svg (which comes on stdout), and
org-latex-impatient
doesn't separate stdout from stderr.I have submitted a PR (#22) that directs stderr to its own buffer so that the output of
tex2svg
is once again valid svg, but wanted to raise it as an issue as well in case others are encountering the same problem.