Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Upcoming release

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-12-15) writes:
>
>> I'd tend to mention in the release notes that there have been no
>> changes this time apart from the version number, but still go
>> through the motions.
>
> Then decoupling the version numbers of the preview package and
> AUCTeX/preview-latex might really make sense in the long run.

I don't think so.  Particularly with -without-texmf-dir a version of
preview.sty that is intimately connected with AUCTeX gets installed
into the Emacs tree.  I don't think it makes sense giving different
version numbers to this integrated version from the encompassing
AUCTeX, or from external preview versions.

> Is there such a connection at all, that certain versions of
> preview-latex only work with certain versions of preview?

Well, yes.  That is why we have something like

(defcustom preview-default-preamble
  '("\\RequirePackage[" ("," . preview-default-option-list)
                                      "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]

There is some leeway involved, but whenever preview.el requires
something new, we are going to have to bump that date.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum