[tex-live] preview.sty / tlmgr vs AucTeX

[Axel E. Retif]

On  9 Mar, 2010, at 03:27, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> [...] "removing from ctan" is something the author does, and given the _other_ uses of preview.sty, i don't really see that it would be particularly desirable.

Indeed.

> [...] if the authors want to remove preview.sty from ctan, we wouldn't prevent them.

I think that now we all pretty much agree that preview *shouldn't* be removed from CTAN/TeXLive. I've never used psTricks, but the production of standalone TikZ graphics is very useful and popular. I've done that with TeXShop on a Mac, but here is an example in Linux:

http://www.hackenberger.at/blog/ktikz-editor-for-the-tikz-language

and here the same within Emacs:

http://graphtheoryinlatex.blogspot.com/2009/08/simulating-ktikz-with-emacs.html

Best,

Axel