[AUCTeX-devel] Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.81; cygwin and LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images

[Sven de Vries]

Hi David,

thank you for pointing me to the problematic 
file:line:error style
messages. I changed that, and now it works.

-sven

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, David Kastrup wrote:

> Sven de Vries <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > would anybody have some advise with the problem below?
> >
> > thank you,
> > sven
> >
> > Remember to cover the basics.  Including a minimal LaTeX example
> > file exhibiting the problem might help.
> >
> >
> >
> > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit)
> >   of 2004-03-22 on cm-test
>
> Very old Emacs.
>
> > Package: 11.81
> >
> > Run buffer contents:
> >
> > Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `circ' with ``latex -ini "&latex" prv_circ.ini  
> > "\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}\input{circ.tex}"''
> > This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
> >   file:line:error style messages enabled.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> AUCTeX (and preview-latex) can't deal with file:line:error style
> messages.
>
> Configure them off for now.
>
> > (macros/preview/prauctex.cfg)) (macros/preview/prshowlabels.def))kpathsea: 
> > Running mktextfm ecrm0800
> > mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfive; mag:=1; nonstopmode; 
> > input ecrm0800
> > This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> >
> > kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm0800
> > mktexmf: /var/cache/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ecrm0800.mf: successfully 
> > generated.
> > (/var/cache/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ecrm0800.mf
> > (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exbase.mf)
> > (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ecrm.mf
> > (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exroman.mf
> >   Ok (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exaccess.mf
> >   Ok) (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/expseudo.mf
> >   Ok) (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exruwest.mf
> >   Ok [192] [193] [194] [195] [196] [197] [198] [199] [200] [201] [202] [203]
> > [204] [205] [206] [207] [208] [209] [210] [211] [212] [213] [214...
>
> METAFONT runs may confuse the parsing.  Rerunning preview-latex might
> help.  Not that this is relevant here.
>
> > [...]
> >
> >         ....tex:383: Preview: Snippet 96 started.
> > <-><->
> >
> > l.383 dann muß in bekannter Weise $f$ um~$
> >                                            1$ erhöht und $e$ um~$1$
> > ./circ.tex:383: Preview: Snippet 96 ended.(422343+0x327681).
> > <-><->
>
> Now this is interesting.  I never ever considered using file:line:
> error style messages since we would lose the character-exact context
> in the file.  However, it appears like the context is all there, and
> we only get _additional_ information.
>
> We probably should teach AUCTeX and preview-latex how to parse this:
> after all, it the information that is the least robust to get.
>
> Copying to the developer list and directing followups there.
>
> I am afraid that with the current version, all you can do is edit your
> texmf.cnf file (or whatever equivalent your TeX system is using) and
> disable file:line: style error messages.
>
> > Output written on circ.dvi (103 pages, 42648 bytes).
> > Transcript written on circ.log.
> >
> > Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Thu Dec  8 11:55:24
> > LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images