gmane.emacs.auctex.general

Re: Preview suddenly not working

Mathieu Bouillaguet — 2010-03-11T17:06:36

Confirmed here with Slackware current.

emacs 22.3
auctex 11.85 or 11.86
ghostscript 8.71

Downgrading to ghostscript 8.70 fixed everything

The error output by ghostscript was:
/typecheck in --setfileposition--

Re: automatic insertion of labels

Ralf Angeli — 2010-02-26T19:41:14


No.  It speaks of doing it twice because there are two environments to
be configured in the example.


Probably.  Addmittedly I've never used Customize to configure a mode
hook.  You can try to click on [INS] and then copy and paste the
(lambda () ...)  part from the example into the text box.  Obviously you
will have to edit the list of environments in that code to fit those you
would like to configure.  For each environment you have to put in an
entry like '("<environment>" LaTeX-env-label).

If that doesn't work you might try to copy and paste the whole code
snippet from the RefTeX manual, i.e. including the `add-hook' part, into
your init file and restart Emacs (or evaluate the snippet with `C-x
C-e').  The init file can usually be found with `C-x C-f ~/.emacs
<RET>', though I don't know if Aquamacs still uses that.

Re: automatic insertion of labels

David Romano — 2010-02-26T19:18:39


I followed the instructions for using "customize" to do this, but I didn't 
do anything else, since the "Theorem and Axiom" section said "To do the 
same configuration with `customize', you need to click on the `[INS]' 
button twice to create two templates and fill them in like this: ...", and 
I took that to mean this included the mode hook part.

Since I don't know lisp, I only use the "customize" way, and don't know 
how to translate the lisp instructions for adding the mode hook into 
"customize" instructions.  The Latex Mode Hook group only has a text box 
without choices, so I'm not sure what to enter.  I assume this is 
the right place to be working, though, right?

Thanks,
David

Re: automatic insertion of labels

Ralf Angeli — 2010-02-26T18:50:29


There's no need for that since there is no bug tracker behind the
mailing list you sent the report to.


Since you don't describe what exactly you did this is hard to tell.  Did
you follow the instructions in (info "(reftex)Theorem and Axiom"),
including the addition to the mode hook?

Re: automatic insertion of labels

David Romano — 2010-02-26T18:19:21


I submitted a bug report only to learn soon after that the problem was 
in the file I was collaborating on.  A new section command was introduced
that apparently interefered with creating label within that section.  I'd 
like to cancel the bug report, but am not sure how.


I've spent some time with the AUCTeX and RefTeX manuals, and can't seem to 
make any progress with this.  I've changed the RefTeX label alist to 
include some theorem-like environments, and C-c C-m \label works fine, but 
the labels are not being generated automatically when I use C-c C-e. 
Section and equation labels, however, are still being generated 
automatically with either C-c C-s or C-c C-e.  Have I missed a variable 
that needs changing?

Thanks,
David Romano

Re: AUCTeX 11.86 released

Frederik — 2010-02-25T17:50:01

You're welcome,

to turn off the splash screen (by and by it started to bother me), insert
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
into your .emacs file.

Regards,
Fred

Re: Re: AUCTeX 11.86 released

José Carlos Santos — 2010-02-25T09:46:13


Neither am I.


It happens that when I run Emacs the first thing I get is the Welcome 
Screen, not the scratch buffer. Now I know what that is. Thanks a lot.


Even after reading this page it took me some time to figure out how to 
do what I wanted to do (to use SumatraPDF to view PDF files), but I 
eventually managed to do it.

Thanks a lot. You were most helpful.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

Re: automatic insertion of labels

Ralf Angeli — 2010-02-24T20:34:51


I cannot reproduce this with
emacs -Q -l auctex file.tex

Perhaps you could provide a full bug report with `M-x
TeX-submit-bug-report <RET>' which should contain a recipe for
reproducing the problem; ideally with Emacs started as shown above.


Could it be that you haven't discovered RefTeX yet?
(info "(reftex)Top") <-- Type `C-x C-e' here.

automatic insertion of labels

David Romano — 2010-02-24T18:47:35

Two questions, really:

1) When I use TeX-insert-macro to insert "\label", I get the message
"Symbol's function definition is void: nil" instead of being prompted for 
an argument.  Is this normal?  How can I change this so that I am prompted 
for an argument?

2) Is is possible to have labels automatically inserted for theorem-like 
environments the way they can be for equation-like environments?  I 
haven't been able to find out what the corresponding variables might be.

Thanks for your help,
David Romano

Re: AUCTeX 11.86 released

Frederik — 2010-02-24T13:31:31

Hi,

Maybe my last advice was unclear (I'm not a native English speaker).
Just copy `(info "(auctex) Starting viewers")' without the very outer 
quotation marks and paste it into an emacs buffer, e.g. into the scratch 
buffer, which should be automatically opened when starting emacs.

Then place the cursor after the very right parenthesis and press C-j. 
This should take you directly to the right node in the AUCTeX documentation.

Otherwise Type C-h i and then navigate AUCTeX > Processing > Viewing > 
Starting Viewers.

Regards,
Fred

Re: Re: AUCTeX 11.86 released

José Carlos Santos — 2010-02-23T22:08:27


Right. I had not noticed it. :-(


Can you please explain the meaning of pasting something into scratch?

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

Re: Preview suddenly not working

Ralf Angeli — 2010-02-23T18:38:48


In my case downgrading to 8.70 helped.

Re: AUCTeX 11.86 released

Frederik — 2010-02-23T16:08:36

Hi,

The process of starting viewers has changed in 11.86 and the old 
implementation will become obsolete (see "New features" in the release 
notes obove)

Paste
(info "(auctex) Starting viewers")
into scratch and press C-j in order to jump to the corresponding part of 
the documentation.

Regards,
Fred

Re: AUCTeX 11.86 released

José Carlos Santos — 2010-02-23T14:55:35


I installed AUCTeX 11.86 and now I have a problem. If I open a .tex file 
using Emacs and then I do

C-h v TeX-output-view-style <RET>

what I get is:

TeX-output-view-style is a variable defined in `tex.el'.
Its value is
(("^dvi$" "^pstricks$\\|^pst-\\|^psfrag$" "dvips %d -o && start \"\" %f")
  ("^dvi$" "." "yap -1 %dS %d")
  ("^pdf$" "." "SumatraPDF %o")
  ("^html?$" "." "start \"\" %o"))

So, as you can see, if what I want is to view a file called, say, 
test.pdf, then the command line which should be used to open it was 
supposed to be

SumatraPDF test.pdf

Instead, what I get is

start "" "test.pdf"

Can anyone tell me why? (And also how to change that?)

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

Re: Preview suddenly not working

Frederik — 2010-02-23T12:57:46

auctex< at >lonely-star.org schrieb:

Hi,
I think, that I had a very similar error (I remember the stop signs an a 
very ugly error message with execution stack). I had this problem after 
updating to AUCTeX 11.86.
Reinstalling gs worked for me, although this occurred on my windows 
machine...

Fred

Re: Re: Preview suddenly not working

2010-02-23T07:57:12

Hi,

I am on gentoo linux. I have gs version 8.71 installed. I reinstalled
it, no help.
What makes you think it could be the ghostscript version?

Regards,
Nathan

Re: Preview suddenly not working

2010-02-23T07:54:56

Hi,

pdflatex compiles the document nicely and auctex is in pdf mode.

Re: Preview suddenly not working

Joost Kremers — 2010-02-22T22:46:57

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:21 +0100, "Nathan Hüsken"
<auctex< at >lonely-star.org> wrote:

Are you sure your LaTeX code compiles? I've seen this sort of thing when
I had made a mistake in some LaTeX code that gets previewed...

Joost

Re: Preview suddenly not working

Frederik — 2010-02-22T18:45:18

Hi,

try updating Ghostscript.

Regards,
Fred

Preview suddenly not working

Nathan Hüsken — 2010-02-22T18:21:56

Hi,

I do not know what I changed. Everything worked and suddenly, not
previews are generated anymore. Only red stop signs are displayed.

The error message I get when clicking on the stop signs is:

gs -dOutputFile\=\(master.prv/tmp7037xks/pr1-1.png\) -q -dSAFER
-dNOPAUSE -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4
-dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 -sDEVICE\=png16m -r144x144.076
GS>{DELAYSAFER{.setsafe}if}stopped pop/.preview-BP
currentpagedevice/BeginPage get dup null eq{pop{pop}bind}if
def<</BeginPage{currentpagedevice/PageSize get dup 0 get 1 ne exch 1 get
1 ne or{.preview-BP 0 0 0 setrgbcolor clippath fill 1 1 1
setrgbcolor}{pop}ifelse}bind/PageSize[1
1]>>setpagedevice/preview-do{[count 3 roll save]3 1 roll dup length 0
eq{pop}{setpagedevice}{ifelse .runandhide}stopped{handleerror quit}if
aload pop restore}bind def /GS_PDF_ProcSet GS_PDF_ProcSet dup maxlength
dict copy dup begin/graphicsbeginpage{//graphicsbeginpage exec 1 1 1 3
copy rg RG}bind store end readonly store
[(master.prv/tmp7037xks/preview.dsc)(r)file]al

Folding: some maths characters are not displayed

Frederik — 2010-02-21T10:22:36

Hi there!

I've got problems when folding some maths characters.
Most of the symbols display correctly, if I fold the buffer, but some 
are just displayed as a single empty box.
If I check for example the "Latex Fold Math Spec List", epsilon, amalg, 
preceq, succeq, Join, many arrows and other ones are not shown correctly.

I remember having this problem worse, but after an update of 
Emacs/AUCTeX many symbols appeared, others stayed as a box.

It seems not to be an AUCTeX specific problem, because if I copy one of 
the boxes, which "represents" a symbol, and paste it e.g. into my 
Thunderbird text field, the symbol appears correctly.

What could cause the problem?

Thanks and regards,

Fred