Hi everyone!
Moved to a new machine (Ubuntu 20.04), and after installing GNU Emacs (28.1,
snap distribution: build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo
version 1.16.0), I installed several packages through package-list-packages.
Including AUCTeX 13.1.3 (from the gnu package repository).
After restarting Emacs, everything works well, except that
• no Preview commands are available on C-c C-c,
• I see a "Preview" menu in the menu bar, but the command "Generate previews" there does
nothing, but I see a "Quit" in the minibuffer.
I read
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/preview-latex.html
and tried adding (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t) to my init file, but I get the error "No
such file or directory" "preview-latex.el".
According to the manual "your installation is broken", and I'm trying to
understand what's broken. I wonder if you can kindly give me some advice. Here are some
things I've done:
• "M-x list-load-path-shadows" says "No Emacs Lisp load-path shadowings were
found"
• Deleted any AUCTeX auxiliary directories and .el/.elc files in the directory
where I'm working and in .emacs.d (*before* installing AUCTeX)
• Looked for "preview-latex.el" in .emacs.d: there's no such file. There's a "preview.el"
and a "preview.elc" in .emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/ though.
• So I tried (load "preview.el" nil t t) in my init file (restarting Emacs),
but still nothing.
• Ghostscript 9.50 is installed on my system, and available on the command line (eg
"gs -h" gives all GS info).
Anything else I should check?
Thank you!
Luca
AUCTeX info follows below (replacing my home dir with "****" for privacy)
Emacs : GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20,
cairo version 1.16.0)
of 2022-06-24
Package: 13.1.3
current state:
==============
(setq
AUCTeX-date "2022-04-16"
window-system 'x
LaTeX-version "2e"
TeX-style-path '("~/.emacs.d/auctex"
"/home/****/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.1.3/style"
"/home/****/.emacs.d/auctex/.auctex-auto"
"/home/****/.emacs.d/auctex/.auctex-style"
".auctex-auto" ".auctex-style")
TeX-auto-save t
TeX-parse-self nil
TeX-master t
TeX-command-list '(("TeX"
"%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %`%(extraopts) %S%(PDFout)%(mode)%'
%(output-dir) %t"
TeX-run-TeX nil
(plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
"Run plain TeX")
("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %T" TeX-run-TeX nil
(latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %(o-dir) %t"
TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help
"Run Makeinfo with Info output")
("Makeinfo HTML"
"makeinfo %(extraopts) %(o-dir) --html %t"
TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help
"Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
("AmSTeX"
"amstex %(PDFout) %`%(extraopts) %S%(mode)%' %(output-dir) %t"
TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
("ConTeXt"
"%(cntxcom) --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t"
TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help
"Run ConTeXt once")
("ConTeXt Full"
"%(cntxcom) %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX
nil (context-mode) :help
"Run ConTeXt until completion")
("BibTeX" "bibtex %(O?aux)" TeX-run-BibTeX nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode context-mode)
:help "Run BibTeX")
("Biber" "biber %(output-dir) %s" TeX-run-Biber nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Run Biber")
("Texindex" "texindex %s.??" TeX-run-command nil
(texinfo-mode) :help "Run Texindex")
("Texi2dvi" "%(PDF)texi2dvi %t" TeX-run-command nil
(texinfo-mode) :help "Run Texi2dvi or Texi2pdf")
("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help
"Run Viewer")
("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help
"Print the file")
("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help
"View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips t
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Generate PostScript file")
("Dvips" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Convert DVI file to PostScript")
("Dvipdfmx" "dvipdfmx -o %(O?pdf) %d"
TeX-run-dvipdfmx nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Convert DVI file to PDF with dvipdfmx")
("Ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f %(O?pdf)" TeX-run-ps2pdf nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Convert PostScript file to PDF")
("Glossaries" "makeglossaries %(d-dir) %s"
TeX-run-command nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Run makeglossaries to create glossary file")
("Index" "makeindex %(O?idx)" TeX-run-index nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Run makeindex to create index file")
("upMendex" "upmendex %(O?idx)" TeX-run-index t
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Run upmendex to create index file")
("Xindy" "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil
(plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode
texinfo-mode)
:help "Run xindy to create index file")
("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil
(latex-mode) :help
"Check LaTeX file for correctness")
("ChkTeX" "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil
(latex-mode) :help
"Check LaTeX file for common mistakes")
("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")"
TeX-run-function nil t :help
"Spell-check the document")
("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help
"Delete generated intermediate files")
("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t
:help
"Delete generated intermediate and output files")
("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help
"Run an arbitrary command")
)
)