Re: [preview-latex-devel] Mystery errors

[David K. <da...@gn...>]

Tim Janssen <tim...@ya...> writes:

> LS,
>
> I just installed preview-latex and cannot even get the
> demo (circ.tex) to work. All my software is pretty
> recent and I have checked settings according to the
> things listed in Known Problems. All seems ok but I
> get "error in EPS file" and the compilation says:

"error in EPS file"?  The default configuration is not supposed to
generate EPS files at all.  What do you mean with "you get"?  Where do
you get?  Is there a reason you don't use the bug reporting command
M-x preview-report-bug RET mentioned about everywhere in the
documentation which would tell us about your settings?
What is the output in the run buffer (when typing C-c C-l)?  What is
the appearance on the screen?

> ===================================================
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
> (preview.sty (prauctex.def
> )) (circ.aux)
>
> ! Package Preview Error: Snippet 1 started.
>
> See the Preview package documentation for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...                                              
>                                                   
> l.41 \begin{abstract}
>                      
> [1]
>
> ! Package Preview Error: Snippet 1 ended.
>
> See the Preview package documentation for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...                                              
>                                                   
> l.41 \begin{abstract}
>                      
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmtt.fd)
>
> ! Package Preview Error: Snippet 2 started.
>
> .......
> ==================================================
> and more of the same. 
>
> Can you tell me what is wrong? I really don't have a
> clue.


Then you could read the FAQ (which is missing section numbers here.
Ugh).

    Troubleshooting
    ***************

    Preview causes all sort of strange error messages
    =================================================

    When running preview-latex and taking a look at either log file or
    terminal output, lots of messages like

         ! Preview: Snippet 3 started.
         <-><->

         l.52 \item Sie lassen sich als Funktion $
                                                  y = f(x)$ darstellen.
         ! Preview: Snippet 3 ended.(491520+163840x2494310).
         <-><->

         l.52 \item Sie lassen sich als Funktion $y = f(x)$
                                                            darstellen.

       appear (previous versions generated messages looking even more like
    errors).  Those are not real errors (as will be noted in the log file).
    Or rather, while they *are* really TeX error messages, they are
    intentional.  This currently is the only reliable way to pass the
    information from the LaTeX run of preview-latex to its Emacs part about
    where the previews originated in the source text.  Since they are
    actual errors, you will also get AUCTeX to state
         Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Wed Sep  4 17:03:30
       after the LaTeX run in the run buffer.  This merely indicates that
    errors were present, and errors will always be present when
    preview-latex is operating.  There might be also real errors, so in
    case of doubt, look for them explicitly in either run buffer or the
    resulting `.log' file.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum