Re: [AUCTeX] Local variables and font-locking in AucTeX

[gerald . jean]

Hello Ralf,

I didn't want to download a pre-compiled Emacs / AUCTeX package because I
have other Emacs packages installed and didn't want to re-install them.  I
finally got through the process after over two days of work, I must be
slow!  It was hard to get a working recent version of MiKTeX (2.6) since it
was impossible to connect to any repository when running "setup.exe" and
the same problem occured if I dowloaded the minimal package, which
installed fine, but when it was trying to connect to a package repository
to get missing packages the same error occured, probably due to firewalls
on which I have no control (large company with large security measures!).
I ended up downloading the full package repository from CTAN and gave the
path where it was downloaded to the MikTeX package manager, from there on I
could run MiKTeX OK.

Then I moved on to set up AUCTEX  (11.84) which went OK as well, it solved
most of the problems I reported when I first posted BUT I have a hard time
to get it to use YAP rather than GSView as a pre-viewer, anyone knows how
to do that?  And how can I configure the "Other" option in the "Command"
tab so it runs "ps2pdf"?

Thanks for your support,

Gérald Jean
Conseiller senior en statistiques, Actuariat
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* gerald jean (2007-11-15) writes:

> thanks for taking interest in my problems.  To my knowledge I do have the
> most recent version of AucTeX, i.e. 11.84 and I apologize for writing
that
> AucTeX was now a part of Emacs, I must have been confused with some other
> package!
>
> The preceeding paragraph is from yesterday, after writing it I poked
around
> a bit and found that I was in fact running AucTeX 11.14 --- which ran
> wonderfully under Emacs 21.3 but started to gave me the problems I
> mentionned beforer under 22.1.1.
>
> I downloaded AucTeX 11.84 yesterday and have been trying to install it
ever
> since?  I have been using Emacs and AucTeX for years without much
problems.
> I never installed AucTeX the way it has to be done now, i.e. through a
> "configure" file, I used to just put the AucTeX files in a subdir in the
> site-lisp directory, compile them, and let Emacs know about the new
version
> through my ".emacs" file and that was it!
>
> This time I tried to follow the instructions and ran the "./configure"
> command (did it two times, one time under cygwin and a second time
through
> msys with the same results).  That ran successfully, ending with
>
> **************************************
> Congratulations!  Configuration of preview is complete.
>
>
> Congratulations!  Configuration of AUCTeX is complete.
>
> Type "make" at the prompt to build.
> *****************************************
>
> Hence I went on with "make", but was not as lucky with this one, both
with
> cygwin and msys.
>
> ***************************************
> make[1]: Entering directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview'
> (cd latex ; make all)
> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview/latex'
> /c/MiKTeX/texmf/miktex/bin/latex '\nonstopmode \input preview.drv'
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.4)
> entering extended mode
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8a> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german,
> ngerman, du
> mylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
>
> (preview.drv (C:\MiKTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\ltxdoc.clsmake[2]: ***
> [preview.dvi] Error 5
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview/latex'
> make[1]: *** [texmf] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> *************************************
>
> When entering LaTeX, MiKTeX asked to download the package "subfig" I
cliked
> OK but the download failed, yielding the above errors.  I then tried to
> download the package through the MikTeX package manager and that failed
as
> well towards the end of the download, part of the log follows.
>
> *************************************
> Loading DBlight...
> downloading
> "
ftp://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1.cab
"...
>
> Error: The file
>
>
>
ftp://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1.cab

>
> cannot be downloaded for the following reason:
>
> Proxy Error ( The data area passed to a system call is too small.  )
> Package installation failed.
> **************************************
>
> If I ftp to the problematic directory I don't even see a file named
> "miktex-zzdb1.cab", I do see though files named:
> "miktex-zzdb1-2.5.tar.bz2", and 2.6 and 2.7 versions as well???

MiKTeX 2.4 was discontinued, see <URL:http://miktex.org/2.4/>.  You
will likely have better luck after upgrading to a recent MiKTeX
version.

> I am not very good at e-lisp too start with, adding the ftp problems ont
> top of that I sure can't figure out what is wrong, I just find it anoying
> that I have happily worked with AuckTeX for a long time and updating to
> supposedly a better version leaves me with no tools to complete my work!

You can download a precompiled Emacs/AUCTeX bundle from the AUCTeX web
site if you want to spare yourself the hassle of compiling and
installing AUCTeX.

--
Ralf



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