Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.82; image inclusion prevents following previews from being displayed

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2006-01-14) writes:
>
>> The problem is what kind of opening parens and what kind of closing
>> parens we are going to take as gospel.  I don't see a sane way around
>> accepting "(PNG ", so I have to accept ")>" as well given that we have
>> to deal with the [expletive deleted] new output ideas from PDFTeX.  It
>> is not like AUCTeX is the only TeX shell with that problem, so I
>> consider this a bit of an inconsideration on part of the PDFTeX
>> developers.
>
> Hm, what about skipping over content in square brackets?

You probably mean angle brackets?

> That means as soon as an opening square bracket is encountered
> during parsing the only next token to be looked for is its closing
> bracket.

Uh, it's bad enough if we get confused about random parens in the
output.  Getting confused about random angle brackets in addition is
not really going to help much in curing the problem.

>>> Ah, now I got it.  Besides the stick you may hand me a pair of
>>> scissors for shortening my long line.  (You need me not to say
>>> that the outprint "a long line to have" not in English exists.)
>>
>> I am afraid that this play on German will be incomprehensible to
>> most readers of this group.  Including myself, by the way.
>
> Man, I gotta work on my humor.

It's ok, Spock.

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