diff --git a/doerg/resources/net/deertopia/doerg/preview-template.tex b/doerg/resources/net/deertopia/doerg/preview-template.tex
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6761074
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doerg/resources/net/deertopia/doerg/preview-template.tex
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+\documentclass{article}
+\usepackage{amsmath}
+\usepackage[active,tightpage,auctex,dvips]{preview}
+\usepackage{fontspec}
+%% \usepackage{syd-plex}
+
+\begin{document}
+\setlength\abovedisplayskip{0pt}
+% {{contents}}
+\end{document}
diff --git a/doerg/src/net/deertopia/doerg/tex.clj b/doerg/src/net/deertopia/doerg/tex.clj
index b21f8f8..c4cb88a 100644
--- a/doerg/src/net/deertopia/doerg/tex.clj
+++ b/doerg/src/net/deertopia/doerg/tex.clj
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
         [tp1 tp2 tp3 tp4] (->> (re-find tightpage-regexp out)
                                (drop 1)
                                (map parse-long))]
-    (def the-out out)
     (->> (re-seq preview-end-regexp out)
          (map #(let [[d1 d2 d3] (map parse-long (drop 1 %))
                      depth (/ (- d2 tp2)
@@ -66,8 +65,22 @@
 
 ;; dvisvgm --page=1- --optimize --clipjoin --relative --no-fonts -v3 --message='processing page {?pageno}: output written to {?svgpath}' --bbox=preview -o %B-%%9p.svg %f
 
-#_
-(defn- invoke-dvisvgm [& {:keys []}])
+(defn- invoke-dvisvgm [& {:keys [file output-dir]}]
+  (let [r (invoke
+           {:dir output-dir}
+           "dvisvgm" "--page=1-" "--optimize" "--clipjoin"
+           "--relative" "--no-fonts" "-v3"
+           "--message=processing page {?pageno}: output written to {?svgpath}"
+           "--bbox=preview" "-o" "%9p.svg" file)]
+    r))
+
+(defn render-xelatex [& snippets]
+  (let [contents (->> (for [s snippets]
+                        (format "\\begin{preview}\n%s\\end{preview}" s))
+                      (str/join "\n"))]
+    (-> (io/resource "net/deertopia/doerg/preview-template.tex")
+        slurp
+        (str/replace-first #"% {{contents}}" contents))))
 
 
 ;;; Temml