Re: [AUCTeX] Problem with preview-latex and ghostscript in suse 10

[David Kastrup]

MrJ Man <address@hidden> writes:

> I have installed auctex-emacs-11.83-1.suse in suse 10,
> ESP Ghostscript 8.15.0 (2004-09-22) and the auctex
> part works fine, yet the preview-latex part displays
> the error images; in particular, the gs process is
> stalled after the generation of the preview.ps file. I
> checked the variable preview-gs-init-string and input
> it on the gs command prompt and nothing happened, yet
> if I run the same command line with the path of the
> preview.ps file appended to it, the png images are
> generated normally, though with white background
> colour. I have read the other reports about
> ghostscript problems, however the problem appears to
> have nothing to do with /invalidfileaccess (bear in
> mind I am not quite familiar with postscript). What do
> you think?

Click with middle mouse on some error image.  The resulting report
should be more helpful for us than just the description.

> One more thing: I have written a minor environment
> (about 100 lines, see the attached file) in emacs lisp
> in order to change the input language automatically
> between latex macros and the document text. I have
> been using it for a couple of years and it works
> pretty well; it probably has a few bugs and needs some
> code cleaning, so I thought maybe someone with more
> lisp experience could take a look and give me some
> suggestions.

It is not clear what it exactly does and how to use it for what
purpose.

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