[AUCTeX] Re: Problem with getting preview-latex to work

[Ion Mihai]

David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 
> Ion Mihai <ialmihai <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > I get the following error message when I try to do 'preview-document' 
> > in Xemacs 21.4.19 and AucTeX 11.83 under Windows XP:
> >
> > "Display geometry unavailable: Symbol's function definition is void:
> > display-pixel-width"
> >
> > Also, when I try only 'preview-at-point' I get:
> >
> > "Symbol'sfunciton definition is void: 
> > previous-single-char-property-change"
> >
> > Could somebody please explain to me why does 
> > this happen and what to do about it ?
> 
> You are likely using a version of AUCTeX byte-compiled with GNU Emacs
> (it is conceivable that problems like that could happen also because
> the version of XEmacs used for byte-compilation of the package has
> been too advanced, in that case using byte-compile-file first on
> prv-xemacs.el and then on preview.el should help).

I did byte-compile-file on prv-xemacs.el and preview.el and it seems to have
solved the problem (I don't get those errors anymore) but I get now an error
coming from the Windows API. Here's my output buffer (when I do preview-document
on circ.tex):

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 pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5) (INITEX)
entering extended mode
latex: Windows API error 123: Syntaxe du nom de fichier, de répertoire ou de
volume incorrecte.
Preview-LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Oct 18 11:02:24
Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `circ' with ``latex 
"\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 pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, 
german, ngerman, french, loaded.


No auxiliary output files.

(circ.texlatex: Windows API error 123: Syntaxe du nom de fichier, 
de répertoire ou de volume incorrecte.
Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Wed Oct 18 11:02:25
LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images




I get something similar when I try only latex :

Running `LaTeX' on `circ' with ``latex  "\nonstopmode\input{circ.tex}"''
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, 
german, ngerman, french, loaded.

(circ.texlatex: Windows API error 123: Syntaxe du nom de fichier, 
de répertoire ou de volume incorrecte.


LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Oct 18 11:37:07


This doesn't happen when I simply type 'latex  "\nonstopmode\input{circ.tex}"'
at the DOS prompt (then everything works just fine). 

Any idea what's going on ? 

Thanks, 
Ion