PS: I just discovered that "M-x preview-buffer" works. So what's strange is that "Preview" is not available in the command list and that "Generate previews" in the menu-bar does nothing. I have no customization whatsoever of TeX-command-list, so this really baffles me...
On 22-07-23 18:22, pg...@duralexnonlex.org wrote:
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") ) )