Dvi isn't compatible with quite a few Latex packages. I have been trying to include chemical formulas with the chemfig package. Exposing the tool chain to plugins would be very useful. For the record, I'm currently using:
´´´python
latexCmds = [
["pdflatex", "-interaction=nonstopmode", "tmp.tex"],
["pdflatex", "-interaction=nonstopmode", "tmp.tex"],
["pdfcrop", "tmp.pdf"],
["convert", "-density", "300", "tmp-crop.pdf", "tmp.png"]
]
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we were replacing spans with spaces during review but not during media check.
just strip the tags instead, which makes the media check consistent and
doesn't result in multiple identical answers
