Chase Dwelle <[email protected]> writes: > I am very new to lisp so I need some help parsing the error I'm > encountering. Any time I try to preview a document, buffer, section, etc. > in a .tex file I get the error > > "Display geometry unavailable: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil" > > The error comes from the preview-get-geometry() function, and the full > backtrace is given below. Any help getting preview to work would be greatly > appreciated. > > -Chase > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Display geometry unavailable: Wrong > type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil") > > signal(error ("Display geometry unavailable: Wrong type argument: > number-or-marker-p, nil"))
preview-latex requires an Emacs running on a graphics display rather than in a text terminal since the point of preview-latex is displaying graphics in the Emacs buffer itself. The information you give does not suffice to figure out whether you are intentionally running a non-graphical Emacs. If you do, preview-latex is uninteresting for you. Rather use the "View" menu/commands. They are generally useful in contrast to preview-latex. preview-latex is only interesting for a limited number of constructs (math ranks rather high there), but for those cases, it tends to be very nice. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
