Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; Installation warns about impossibilities

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi David,
>
>> When installing I get a warning message
>>
>> Please read the PROBLEMS file if you use
>> a) AUCTeX with a version less than 11.0
>> b) GNU Emacs with a version less than 21.2
>>    OR XEmacs with a version less than 21.4.9
>> c) Ghostscript with a version less than 6.51
>>
>> In particular the AUCTeX version warning is overly pessimistic
>> considering that preview-latex is distributed as part of AUCTeX since
>> version 11.50 or so.
>
> So what would you suggest?

AUCTeX less that 11.0 can't happen, and the other conditions can just be
listed (negated) as requirements in the manual as they are easy enough
to meet nowadays.

Where doc/preview-problems.texi talks about problems caused by the above
conditions, deleting the passage in question might be sanest.  It may be
slightly fishy that the top-level PROBLEMS file talks only about
preview-latex.  It might be worth mentioning this specificity in the
@ifset rawfile section, possibly just by calling the top node "Know
problems with preview-latex".  Possibly by also pointing to the AUCTeX
manual for other problems.

-- 
David Kastrup