Re: [preview-latex-devel] preview-latex and ucthesis

[David K. <da...@gn...>]

Jamie Kellogg <ke...@ge...> writes:

> First, thanks so much for such a brilliant package.  I've become
> dependent on preview-latex.  Anyway, I've been using the ucthesis
> document class to put my thesis together (actually, huthesis, which
> is a slightly bastardized version thereof), but it seems to have
> broken preview-latex.

Bingo.  Another standard complaint of "My broken
university/journal/whatever style that has been derived from an
ancient broken LaTeX style many years ago refuses to work with
preview-latex".  FYI, it will also refuse to work with any package
that redefines \@float and \end@float in order to change figure
layout.  preview-latex changes figure layout, too, by not typesetting
figures regularly but squirreling them away.

> The relevant section of the huthesis.cls file is:

> \def\fps@figure{tbp}
> \def\ftype@figure{1}
> \def\ext@figure{lof}
> \def\fnum@figure{\figurename~\thefigure}
> \def\figure{\@float{figure}}
> \let\endfigure\end@float

See the problem?  Now if preview-latex redefines \@float in order to
catch floats, this will work perfectly redefining \figure's meaning.
But the redefinition of \end@float will not make it to \endfigure
that has kept a copy before.

The last line needs to be
\def\endfigure{\end@float}
in order to work with styles changing float behavior.

Please notify the class authors.  Same for table, obviously.

> \@namedef{figure*}{\@dblfloat{figure}}
> \@namedef{endfigure*}{\end@dblfloat}

Those are fine.

Anyway, the current CVS version of preview-latex has a workaround that
loudly complains and then redefines the faulty definitions.  You would
not believe into how many unmaintained styles this junk code has
found its way.

Again: it will not only break preview-latex.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum