Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] suggestion about "Preview Tex Style Dir"

[David Kastrup]

Please keep the list copied with your replies.  I don't even use
Windows myself, so by just mailing me instead of the list, you cut
yourself off from useful replies.

李旭章 <address@hidden> writes:

> If i just install cygwin's tetex + ghostscript, and then decompression the
> emacs+auctex-w32-2007-05-20.zip.
> I have set the PATH and runemac, didn't set the TEXINPUTS, and didn't have .
> emacs. 
> I can't  "command->latex"  a  .tex  file  and  I can't preview.
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> I must create .emacs to set the preview-TeX-style-dir and the
> preview-gs-command.
> In my opinion the bundle should work without any settings except the PATH
> and install the latex.
> And I hope auctex can auto detect what i am using for the gs command,
> "gsw32c" or "gs".
>
> Thanks to you !
> Thanks to FSF !
> Thanks to RMS !
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> Xuzhang Lee
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> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden 
> 发送时间: 2007年5月25日 1:41
> 收件人: address@hidden
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> 主题: Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] suggestion about "Preview Tex Style Dir"
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> 李旭章 <address@hidden> writes:
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>> I use emacs+auctex-w32-2007-05-20.zip and cygwin tetex.
>> I suggest the default "Preview Tex Style Dir" should append a ":".
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> That is actually not a good idea since we don't actually prescribe a
> particular TeX distribution.  It would probably be more appropriate to fix
> the DOC string of preview-TeX-style-dir instead, since the appended : or ;
> should not normally be required as it is supposed to be figured out
> automatically.
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> Does this not work on your system?
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> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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