Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.81; Problems with lastpage.sty

[David Kastrup]

Bernd Strieder <address@hidden> writes:

> preview-latex fails to produce previews, if the package 
> lastpage.sty has been loaded. There is just that famous message 
> in the mini-buffer "error in process sentinel: LaTeX found no 
> preview images". When commenting lastpage it out, it works 
> without problems. I have attached the output of the preview log 
> buffer and the generated bug report below. The preview logs of 
> the working example do no differ significantly from the 
> non-working, only the messages due to lastpage, and the dvips 
> call in the end make the differences.

And preamble caching.  Turning it off with C-c C-p C-c C-f should do
the trick.

> Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `test' with ``latex "&prv_test" 
> test.tex''
> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, 
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, basque, german, ngerman, spanish, catalan, french, 
> italian, latin, 
> ukenglish, loaded.
> CUSTOMISED FORMAT. Preloaded files:
>         .
>     test.tex
>  minimal.cls    2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
> lastpage.sty    1994/06/25 v0.1b LaTeX2e package for refs to last 
> page number (
> JPG)

Here, that is the problem.  (
 JPG)
confuses the file name parsing/detection.  This file is under the GPL,
so you are free to modify it without changing its name.  Look for
(JPG) in the file and delete the "LaTeX2e package for") bit, it is
redundant anyway.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum