Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.83; Preview image misplaced in Omega file

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> The problematic document is attached (the encoding is iso8859-7). I
> repeat a part of the previous e-mail for convenience.
>
> Setting TeX-Omega-mode to nil makes all the problems disappear in
> the document

[...]

> Setting it to non-nil makes the image shifted to the start of the
> line and all text between the start of the line and the latex code
> missing.
>
> I tried the latest CVS version (preview.el rev. 1.279, prv-emacs.el
> rev. 1.70) 

That is _not_ the version with which you got the described error.

> and it aborts with 
> "Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `test' with ``%`lambda -ini 
> -interaction=nonstopmode "&%`lambda" prv_test.ini   
> "\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}
> {preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]
> {preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}"%' test.tex''
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> Preview-LaTeX exited abnormally with code 2 at Wed Nov  1 03:15:27
> Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `test' with ``%`lambda  
> "\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}
> {preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]
> {preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}"%' test.tex''
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> Preview-LaTeX exited abnormally with code 2 at Wed Nov  1 03:15:27
> LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images".

You can't update just preview alone.  preview and AUCTeX depend on
each other.  What you got here is a version mismatch.

> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2005-09-13 on c001n14
> Package: 11.83
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is not a version from CVS.

> (setq
>  AUC-TeX-version "11.83"
>  LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %S%(PDFout)"))

[...] standard for 11.83.

So I repeat: in the current version from CVS, the reported problem is
fixed.  I tested this again, and the results look fine.  Using that
version (which you did not for most of the problem report) requires
updating the _whole_ of AUCTeX to the CVS version.  You can't update
preview alone, and I would very much like to hear how you managed to
get this impression, and how you actually managed to coerce the
installation process into doing something like that.

Unless you copied and compiled all files by hand, we might not yet be
doing enough to keep people from shooting themselves into the foot.

Another possibility would be that you updated AUCTeX, but have
customized the variable

TeX-expand-list

yourself.  In that case, you need to erase customizations, then add
them again.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum