Peter Dyballa
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Tue Dec 19 20:17:23 JST 2006
Am 18.12.2006 um 01:45 schrieb Roussanka Loukanova:
I don't know which release of Carbon Emacs I am using right now, the
About menu item does not explain anything, could be it's the latest
one, still based on GNU Emacs 22.0.50. This last release broke for me
too a lot of things because it does not load my system's site-
start.el. Could be you're just another victim of undocumented
changes ...
> Now, with the new installation, neither of the above works. I.e.,
> what I
> do and get is as follows:
>
> 1. In the Emacs menu: Command -> Texing Options I switch off PDF Mode
> by C-c C-t C-p (to get pstricks working in latex).
Have you thought of creating your own PSTricks command? You could use
your TeXShop Engine file, a simple shell script, to do the same job ...
Or you could use Herb Schulz' ps4pdf Engine to create PDF from a
PSTricks TeX file kind of "directly."
>
> 2. Then, Ctrl-c Ctrl-c runs latex successfully but without creating
> pdf,
> i.e. it does not get the sequence of commands: dvips + ps2pdf.
Can you show the contents of the corresponding output buffer? There
must be some evidence why no PS output was created. Recent
implementations of dvips have a safety option active not to load any
files "from above" your DVI file's file system level ...
>
> 3. C-c C-c invokes as the default View command: <xdvi file.dvi>
> (I do not like much xdvi, but even it does not work, apparently
> because
> I don't know how to get xdvi working; i.e., I do not know yet how to
> activate X11).
I have created with Platypus an Universal Binary application that set
ups the X11 environment in such a way that it knows of TeX and
becomes very useful. I can send it to you, I just don't have a host
(er) to let you fetch it. Then it would be best to make X11 a start-
up item or to launch it before you try to view a DVI file from Emacs.
The X clients launched when the X server part of X11 is not already
running can behave a bit strange, including the state of complete
uselessness.
You can also extend AUCTeX (and your system) with two different DVI
viewer applications. The first one, and IMO best PDF viewer, is
TeXShop. Because it can't display DVI it converts it to PDF, and it
would do the same with a PS file. AFAIR it uses dvips to create PS
and then your "Distiller" command (Ghostview's ps2pdf or the system's
pstopdf) to create PDF, which is then displayed. The second option
would be to use TeXniscope, which either cannot display DVI, so it
uses dvipdfmx to convert it directly to PDF.
>
> 4. have put the line
> (setq pdf-previewer-program "open -a Preview")
> in the .emacs.
Some time ago the internals of AUCTeX changed a lot. Such simple
lines might not work anymore in AUCTeX 11.83 (you can get the version
number for example from "reporting an AUCTeX bug" menu entry). This
and the much too complicated syntax to create reasonable AUCTeX
commands helped me to use something different then AUCTeX.
>
> 5. I've restarted the machine several times. But nothing fixes the
> problem.
That's correct behaviour.
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Pete
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