[l2h] When will cropping bars be fixed?

[individual]

see below

On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 03:32 PM, individual wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I am having problems with the cropping bars.
>
> My OS is Mac OS X 10.2.4, with netpbm installed via fink in the /sw 
> tree.
>
> My netpbm package is netpbm-9.25-3, and pnmcrop --version  is
>
> pnmcrop: Using libnetpbm from Netpbm Version: Netpbm 10.12
>
> My l2hconfig.pm file says
>
> $DVIPSOPT = ' -E';
>
> I have altered 2 lines in pstoimg (circa line 270)
>
> my $PNMCROP = '/sw/bin/pnmcrop -verbose';
> # my $PNMCROP = '/sw/bin/pnmcrop'; ################# ORIGINAL
> my $PNMCROPOPT = '-sides';
> # my $PNMCROPOPT = ''; ########################## ORIGINAL
>
> None of this had any effect on the black cropping bars.
>
> In Febuary 2003 someone suggested
>
> >Sometimes you just have to "do it by hand" in the LaTeX source.
> >This can mean adding a small bit of extra space within the image.
> >At the right, this is easy: just put \, after the mathematics
> >but within the $.....\,$
> >                     ^^-----  like this.
> >
> >For extra vertical size, \strut may help;
> >e.g.  $ .... \strut$
> >else an invisible \vrule of specified size:
> >  \vrule height 15pt depth 0pt width 0pt
>
> I am not willing to munge every single equation in my documents just 
> to get this issue solved.
>
> Is there a straightforward, definite fix for this issue that does not 
> require hacking one's netpbm?


Solved:

my $PNMCROPOPT = '-b';

My last question still stands, though.

Paul