Please don't reply to my private mail address instead of the list. I am not the only developer of AUCTeX.
Fred Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Fred Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> When editing a tex file I get an error message "void-variable >>> AUCTeX-version", and the usual highlighting is not there. This >>> problem occurs for auctex versions 11.81, 11.82, and 11.83. I'm >>> running gentoo on a dual opteron system, and would be happy to help >>> track this down, given some guidance. Thanks, >>> >> >> My guess is that either you or gentoo foul up the load process, maybe >> with (require 'tex-site). Read the INSTALL file in order to figure >> out how AUCTeX should be activated. >> > I guess this was a good guess. After looking all over the place I > thought perhaps you were indicating that I should not be using > (require 'tex-site). Initially I thought you were indicating that it > should be there. Anyway after commenting this line out, I'm not > getting any complaints. So thank you very much, I would never have > done this without your comments. You still need to load auctex, like described in INSTALL (unless this is done by gentoo's package itself). > To make a very long story short, after this preview latex was still > not working and after much misguided effort I finally saw that > tex-site.el was newer than tex-site.elc. After fixing this Hopefully by deleting tex-site.elc. > and putting (require 'tex-site) back in all seems to work. Sigh. The INSTALL file and its instructions are there for a reason. > The only problem now is that I'm error messages on start up > > Warning: no fonts matching > -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times] > Warning: no fonts matching > -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available > Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' > available > Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-*-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' > available > Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' > available [2 times] > > I've tried to find fonts (installed a couple) on the gentoo site which > would provide the missing fonts, but without success. It seems > unlikely to me that these missing fonts are responsible for the > problem, but I'm feeling over my head on this. If that happens only with AUCTeX, it is likely something related to the font locking. I have no expertise in that area. Anybody else? > P.S. Did you know that the spell checker in Thunderbird would like > to replace Kastrup with Strumpets as its first choice! I won't go into family history here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
