[OS X TeX] Aquamacs and preview-latex
Christopher Menzel
cmenzel at tamu.edu
Mon Nov 13 09:04:39 CET 2006
I have solved this problem by compiling the latest Emacs CVS
sources. Since I'm using the same version of auctex/preview-latex
and the same utilities, the problem seems to be something in Emacs
22.0.50. (The CVS version identifies itself as version 23.0.0,
though the README sez 22.0.90.) Note I have seen this problem with
preview-latex now in three different versions of Emacs 22.0.50 on two
different platforms. (I had forgotten that I the problem also arose
in a version of Emacs 22.0.50 that I compiled under FreeBSD; the
Ubuntu Linux version I'm using successfully was also compiled from
the CVS sources.)
Chris Menzel
On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Chris Menzel wrote:
> Has anyone experienced any problems with preview-latex recently,
> esp on
> an Intel Mac? When I preview some LaTeX code (or a region or buffer
> ...) the bitmaps are inserted in my Emacs buffer but they all
> contain a
> huge amount of whitespace. Look here to see what I mean:
>
> http://cmenzel.org/buggy-preview-latex.jpg
>
> I highlighted the region in the screenshot before grabbing it to make
> the whitespace in the bitmaps more visible. I have reported this
> problem to the emacs bugs list and have corresponded with David
> Kastrup
> (the maintainer of the auctex package) about it; I've tried installing
> the newest version of auctex and have tried different versions of
> ghostscript; I've checked that I'm using current versions of relevant
> auxiliary programs like pdf2dsc; I've tried using Carbon Emacs instead
> of Aquamacs Emacs. All to no avail. After installing TeXLive this
> morning (via i-Installer), things are actually *better*, in that
> all of
> my math code in a previewed region or buffer is being displayed --
> before only the first string of code was being displayed (with the
> excessive whitespace). But this is still intolerable, obviously.
> I run
> Ubuntu Linux in a virtual machine (thanks to Parallels Desktop) and
> preview runs flawlessly therein. But I'd prefer to stay in OS X
> and use
> Aquamacs Emacs, which has several advantages over the Linux setup.
>
> This is all the more frustrating in light of the fact that preview was
> working under Carbon Emacs a couple of months ago. Unfortunately,
> I do
> not know what I, or something, did in the meanwhile to break it.
>
> Any suggestions much appreciated.
>
> Chris Menzel
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