Re: [AUCTeX] The Journal of Statisticsl Software style file breaks preview

[Tassilo Horn]

Faheem Mitha <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,

>> Ah, now I think I know what's the problem: caching the preamble uses
>> mylatex.ltx, so please try preview without: <menu-bar> <Preview> <off>
>
> Your suggestion is: go to the menu-bar and set "Turn preamble cache"
> to "Off", right?

Yes.

> I did this. I didn't restart emacs or anything. I then tried the test
> file again.
>
> The preview feature still fails, but this time there are no error
> messages with \MYLATEXline. Looks like the problem may not be related
> to the mylatex package after all.

Hm, indeed.  With cached preample, I got the same \MYLATEXline errors as
you do, but I got the previews anyway.

> I enclose the compilation output (the buffer obtained by doing C-c C-l
> in emacs) below, and also the log file below that.
>
> I still can't help wondering whether the image file referenced in the
> class file is messing things up, but removing that line doesn't change
> anything.
>
> Does this operation just affect the current buffer or does it write
> settings for future use?

You mean, turning of the preamble cache?  That's only for the current
session.

> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/natbib/natbib.sty
>
> ! LaTeX Error: \makeindex undefined.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...
>
> l.795 \renewcommand\makeindex
>                              address@hidden

I get that error, too, but it doesn't hinder preview-latex to generate
previews for me.

> ! Preview: Snippet 1 started.
> <-><->
>
> l.4 \begin{document}
>
> <jsslogo.jpg, id=4, 540.0175pt x 393.47pt> <use jsslogo.jpg>
> Preview: Tightpage -32891 -32891 32891 32891
> ! Preview: Snippet 1 ended.(4288418+0x5885636).
> <-><->
>
> l.4 \begin{document}
>
> [1 <./jsslogo.jpg>] (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/t1pzc.fd)
> ! Preview: Snippet 2 started.
> <-><->
>
> l.5 $
>      x$
> ! Preview: Snippet 2 ended.(308974+0x410139).
> <-><->
>
> l.5 $x$

Hm, so it actually found the preview snippets.

> [2{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ae/t1aett.fd) )
> (see the transcript file for additional 
> information)</usr/share/texlive/texmf-d
> ist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb>
> Output written on test.pdf (2 pages, 31652 bytes).
> Transcript written on test.log.
>
> Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Sun Jan  5 14:50:16
> LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images

My output buffer which shows exactly the same \makeindex error ends like
this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Package hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string (PDFDocEncoding):
(hyperref)                removing `\\' on input line 2.

./mini.tex:2: Preview: Snippet 1 started.
<-><->
      
l.2 \begin{document}
                    
<jsslogo.jpg, id=4, 540.0175pt x 393.47pt> <use jsslogo.jpg>
Preview: Tightpage -32891 -32891 32891 32891
./mini.tex:2: Preview: Snippet 1 ended.(4288418+0x5885636).
<-><->
      
l.2 \begin{document}
                    
[1 <./jsslogo.jpg>] (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/t1pzc.fd)
./mini.tex:3: Preview: Snippet 2 started.
<-><->
      
l.3 $
     x^2$
./mini.tex:3: Preview: Snippet 2 ended.(598293+0x721439).
<-><->
      
l.3 $x^2$
         
[2{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ae/t1aett.fd) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)</usr/share/texmf-dist/font
s/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public
/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb>
Output written on mini.pdf (2 pages, 38772 bytes).
SyncTeX written on mini.synctex.gz.
Transcript written on mini.log.

TeX Output exited as expected with code 1 at Sun Jan  5 15:33:48
Running `Preview-PDF2DSC' with ``pdf2dsc mini.pdf 
mini.prv/tmp12523gYi/preview.dsc''

Preview-PDF2DSC finished at Sun Jan  5 15:33:50
Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``/usr/bin/rungs 
-dOutputFile\=\(mini.prv/tmp12523gYi/pr1-\%d.png\) -q -dDELAYSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
-DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 
-sDEVICE\=png16m -r86.0873x86.1893''

Preview-Ghostscript finished at Sun Jan  5 15:33:51
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Not sure where's the difference.  You might want to try the
auctex-11.87.2 package that you can install with M-x
package-list-packages instead of the debian provided one.

Bye,
Tassilo