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13.1.3; Adjustment of foreground color not working for fraction lines and tikz in preview

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From: Frank Selensky <frankselensky <at> live.com>
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: 13.1.3; Adjustment of foreground color not working for fraction lines
 and tikz in preview
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 10:29:48 +0200

I am using a theme with a dark background, so I rely on auctex to
convert the foreground color to the one set in my theme while previewing
latex fragments. This works fine for most latex fragments. But it does
not work for the lines of a fraction. Here the numerator and denominator
are converted to the right color, but the fraction line itself stays
black. Apart from that, in tikzpictures the color of the lines and text
is not converted and still black.

This happens for me for example when I try to preview the latex
fragments in the following:

```
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
\[\frac{123}{abv}\]

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw(0,0) -- (1,2);
\node[draw] at (-1,-2) {A};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
```

What I would expect is, that everything (where no other color was
specified explicitly) is turned into the foreground color of my theme
when previewing.


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 
3.24.33, cairo version 1.17.6)
 of 2022-04-28
Package: 13.1.3

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2022-04-16"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("~/.emacs.d/auctex" 
"/home/user/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/style"
                  "/home/user/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" 
"/home/user/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
 TeX-auto-save t
 TeX-parse-self t
 TeX-master t
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                    ("TeX"
                     "%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %`%(extraopts) 
%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %(output-dir) %t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode 
texinfo-mode) :help "Run plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %T" TeX-run-TeX nil 
(latex-mode doctex-mode) :help
                     "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %(o-dir) %t" 
TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode)
                     :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %(o-dir) 
--html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "amstex %(PDFout) %`%(extraopts) 
%S%(mode)%' %(output-dir) %t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
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%(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
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(texinfo-mode) :help
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(texinfo-mode) :help
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file")
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the printer queue" :visible
                     TeX-queue-command)
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                     (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode 
ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
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                     (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode 
ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
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                     (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode 
ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
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ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
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TeX-run-command nil
                     (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode 
ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
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 )

Message #8 received at 56889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
To: Frank Selensky <frankselensky <at> live.com>
Cc: 56889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56889: 13.1.3;
 Adjustment of foreground color not working for fraction lines and
 tikz in preview
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:15:41 +0900

Hi Frank,

>>>>> Frank Selensky <frankselensky <at> live.com> writes:
> I am using a theme with a dark background, so I rely on auctex to
> convert the foreground color to the one set in my theme while previewing
> latex fragments. This works fine for most latex fragments. But it does
> not work for the lines of a fraction. Here the numerator and denominator
> are converted to the right color, but the fraction line itself stays
> black. Apart from that, in tikzpictures the color of the lines and text
> is not converted and still black.

> This happens for me for example when I try to preview the latex
> fragments in the following:

> ```
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{tikz}

> \begin{document}
> \[\frac{123}{abv}\]

> \begin{tikzpicture}
> \draw(0,0) -- (1,2);
> \node[draw] at (-1,-2) {A};
> \end{tikzpicture}
> \end{document}
> ```

> What I would expect is, that everything (where no other color was
> specified explicitly) is turned into the foreground color of my theme
> when previewing.

Foreground color adjusting is somewhat fragile feature, and I'm afraid
that preview-latex can't satisfy your request for pdflatex.

According to ghostscript developer, preview-latex sets the "default"
color, but if the pdf has explicit color specification, ghostscript
obeys it to render the image out of pdf. I guess that pdflatex specifies
black for the line of fractions explicitly while it doesn't for "texts"
of numerator and denominator. If this guess is correct, fraction lines
are always rendered as black.

I confirmed that the following workarounds work, but I admit that
they aren't satisfactory solutions, sorry:
(1) Turn off PDF mode by C-c C-t C-p and set `preview-image-type' to
    `dvipng'.
(2) Set `preview-pdf-color-adjust-method' to nil.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita
#StandWithUkraine #StopWarInUkraine

Message #11 received at 56889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
Cc: Frank Selensky <frankselensky <at> live.com>, 56889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56889: 13.1.3; Adjustment of foreground color not working
 for fraction lines and tikz in preview
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:34:59 +0100

Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp> writes:

> Hi Frank,
>
>>>>>> Frank Selensky <frankselensky <at> live.com> writes:
>> I am using a theme with a dark background, so I rely on auctex to
>> convert the foreground color to the one set in my theme while previewing
>> latex fragments. This works fine for most latex fragments. But it does
>> not work for the lines of a fraction. Here the numerator and denominator
>> are converted to the right color, but the fraction line itself stays
>> black. Apart from that, in tikzpictures the color of the lines and text
>> is not converted and still black.
>
>> This happens for me for example when I try to preview the latex
>> fragments in the following:
>
>> ```
>> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>> \usepackage{tikz}
>
>> \begin{document}
>> \[\frac{123}{abv}\]
>
>> \begin{tikzpicture}
>> \draw(0,0) -- (1,2);
>> \node[draw] at (-1,-2) {A};
>> \end{tikzpicture}
>> \end{document}
>> ```
>
>> What I would expect is, that everything (where no other color was
>> specified explicitly) is turned into the foreground color of my theme
>> when previewing.
>
> Foreground color adjusting is somewhat fragile feature, and I'm afraid
> that preview-latex can't satisfy your request for pdflatex.
>
> According to ghostscript developer, preview-latex sets the "default"
> color, but if the pdf has explicit color specification, ghostscript
> obeys it to render the image out of pdf. I guess that pdflatex specifies
> black for the line of fractions explicitly while it doesn't for "texts"
> of numerator and denominator. If this guess is correct, fraction lines
> are always rendered as black.
>
> I confirmed that the following workarounds work, but I admit that
> they aren't satisfactory solutions, sorry:
> (1) Turn off PDF mode by C-c C-t C-p and set `preview-image-type' to
>     `dvipng'.
> (2) Set `preview-pdf-color-adjust-method' to nil.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

No further comments, so I'm closing this report.

Best, Arash

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