Re: [Orgmode] Problem with LaTeX snippets preview

[Nick Dokos]

Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <address@hidden> wrote:

> How could I miss that?
> 
> I used the command customize-variable and I was trying to auto-complete with 
> TAB
> something similar to "org-preview" or "org--preview".  Now I see that the
> options are in the group Org Latex.
> 
> May I suggest that these two variables are mentioned in the documentation of 
> the
> org-preview-latex-fragment function?
> 

This is the second time in the last couple of weeks that somebody looked
for this and did not find it. Nicolas Goaziou had a very similar
reaction (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17544 for
more). So it seems that the option is indeed well hidden :-) I'd second
the motion to add a mention of org-format-latex-options in the function
doc and perhaps add a more extended mention in section 11.4 of the
manual ("Processing LaTeX fragments") as well. Here is some suggested
text:

,----
| ...
| `C-c C-c'
|      Remove the overlay preview images.
| 
|    You can customize the variable `org-format-latex-options' to
| influence some aspects of the preview. In particular, the :scale (and
| for HTML export, :html-scale) property can be used to adjust the
| size of the preview images.
| 
|    During HTML export (*note HTML export::), all LaTeX fragments are
| ...
`----

Thanks,
Nick