Re: Problem with preview-latex

[David Kastrup]

Florian Lindner <Florian.Lindner@xgm.de> writes:

> I've tried to use preview latex to use on a newly started document. It works
> on other documents but somehow does not like this one:
>
> I used C-c C-p C-d to preview the entire document but preview-latex only
> displays error symbols next to the formulas.

Please use

M-x preview-report-bug RET

for reporting problems.

Here is the rub:

> Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `Nachrechnung' with ``latex "&prv_Nachrechnung"
> Nachrechnung.tex''

prv_Nachrechnung is a predumped format containing the preamble, dumped
by using mylatex.ltx.

> CUSTOMISED FORMAT. Preloaded files:
>         .
> Nachrechnung.tex
> scrartcl.cls    2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA document class
>    fleqn.clo    1998/08/17 v1.1c Standard LaTeX option (flush left
> equations)
> scrlfile.sty    2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA package
>   size11.clo    2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
> typearea.sty    2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA package
>  fontenc.sty
>    t1enc.def    2004/02/22 v1.99f Standard LaTeX file
>  ngerman.sty    1998/07/08 v2.5e Support for writing german texts (br)
> inputenc.sty    2004/02/05 v1.0d Input encoding file
>     utf8.def    2004/02/09 v1.1b UTF-8 support for inputenc
>    t1enc.dfu    2004/02/09 v1.1b UTF-8 support for inputenc
>   ot1enc.dfu    2004/02/09 v1.1b UTF-8 support for inputenc
>   omsenc.dfu    2004/02/09 v1.1b UTF-8 support for inputenc
>  amsmath.sty    2000/07/18 v2.13 AMS math features
>  amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01
>   amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0
>   amsbsy.sty    1999/11/29 v1.2d
>   amsopn.sty    1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names
>   t1cmtt.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
>   t1cmss.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions

Normal.  And everything looks normal up to here:

> l.27 ...\cdot i_{45} \cdot \eta_{45} = 12.90 Nm \]
>                                                   
> [6] )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Output written on Nachrechnung.dvi (6 pages, 2780 bytes).
> Transcript written on Nachrechnung.log.
>
> Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Tue Dec 19 19:05:31
> Running `Preview-DviPS' with ``dvips -Pwww Nachrechnung.dvi -o
> Nachrechnung.prv/tm9234lTP/preview.ps''
> This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2006.12.19:1905' -> Nachrechnung.prv/tm9234lTP/preview.ps
> <tex.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmsy10.pfb><cmr10.pfb><cmr8.pfb>
> <cmmi8.pfb><cmmi10.pfb>[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] 
>
> Preview-DviPS finished at Tue Dec 19 19:05:32

Fine till here.

But now:

> Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``gs -dOutputFile\=\(
> \) -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4 
> -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 -sDEVICE\=png16m -r114.025x112.668''
>
> Preview-Ghostscript finished at Tue Dec 19 19:05:33
> Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``gs -dOutputFile\=\(
> \) -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4
> -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 -sDEVICE\=png16m -r114.025x112.668''

And so on. Instead of an output file name, here is an empty string.
In my comparable test, there is

Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``gs 
-dOutputFile\=\(junk.prv/tmp5246ebu/pr1-\%d.png\) -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
-DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 
-sDEVICE\=png16m -r132.114x132.241''

Preview-Ghostscript finished at Thu Dec 21 23:07:28

So you are doing something that messes up the file name generation of
GhostScript within preview-latex.  I have no idea what would do that,
and doing a proper bug report with the intended commands to the proper
channels might help pinpointing this.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum