Ciaran Taylor
2005-03-12 11:04:50 UTC
Hi Folks,
Your instructions in INSTALL.WINDOWS may have missed a serious issue.
Auctex-11.55 uses "xdvi" for displaying DVI. On a MS windows-based machine,
xdvi is not available. I think most people uses MiKTeX which gives us "yap".
I tried to do a quick fix in tex.el but found use of other X-window
based programs
such as xpdf. Simply put, Auctex-11.55 is NOT for MS windows-based machines.
I wish you have made that clear in your release note.
regards,
Jun
If you readYour instructions in INSTALL.WINDOWS may have missed a serious issue.
Auctex-11.55 uses "xdvi" for displaying DVI. On a MS windows-based machine,
xdvi is not available. I think most people uses MiKTeX which gives us "yap".
I tried to do a quick fix in tex.el but found use of other X-window
based programs
such as xpdf. Simply put, Auctex-11.55 is NOT for MS windows-based machines.
I wish you have made that clear in your release note.
regards,
Jun
INSTALL.WINDOWS as far as point 9, then what you find is:
9. For GNU Emacs, the recommended way to activate AUCTeX is to add the
following line to your `.emacs' file:
(require 'tex-site)
The configuration for Windows systems is probably not quite
fitting. Instead of loading `tex-site.el' in that manner, you
might want to load `tex-mik.el' (for MikTeX) or `tex-fptex' (for
fpTeX) instead.
I'm using AUCTeX 11.55 on Windows XP Pro using (require 'tex-site) in my
.emacs and it calls YAP just fine, as does C-c C-v. There is nothing
wrong with the AUCTeX installation instructions.
By the way I'm also running preview-latex 0.9 on GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1
(i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-01-30 on NONIQPC which I qot from
http://nqmacs.sourceforge.net/. That's working well (since I realised a
few things). There have been a few crashes: I'm not sure whether to
blame the CVS emacs, AUCTeX 11.55 or preview-latex 0.9.
Ciaran Taylor.