Re: [AUCTeX] preview \cite

[emacs user]

Thank you!  this indeed works and is very helpful, apologies for
taking your time on something that wasn't a bug. am most grateful!
best, E

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> In the log you sent I saw that you seem to be running a preview-latex
> command other than `preview-document'.  (Something I failed to notice in
> the original log you sent.)  Commands like `preview-at-point' or
> `preview-buffer' generate previews by running LaTeX on a LaTeX file
> which is just a part of the whole file.  However, preview-latex does not
> run BibTeX on this file, so the necessary data to resolve the reference
> is missing.  That's why you see a question mark in the preview.
>
> You can work around this by running `preview-document' instead one of
> the preview commands which only operate on a part of the document (and
> make sure that BibTeX was run before) or by running BibTeX manually on
> the _region_.tex file mentioned above.  The latter workaround does not
> seem very practical, though.
>
> I don't think we'll see preview-latex automatically running stuff like
> BibTeX soon because we don't even have this feature yet in AUCTeX.
>
> --
> Ralf
>