Peter Dyballa writes: > While GNU Emacsen, the X clients, and Carbon Emacsen have no problem > to create a preview from a mathematical formula, this fails in > Emacs.app, the Cocoa port of GNU Emacs 23.0.60 (http://emacs- > app.sourceforge.net/). Preview hides that Ghostscript fails. > Observing preview-region with ktrace I can see that Ghostscript when > invoked from Emacs.app fails with an error: > > "Error: /typecheck in --setmatrix--
Hi, Peter, you recently said that debugging PostScript is so much easier than debugging Elisp. Seriously, if this is a GS problem, the first thing to do is to try older or newer versions. It's a well known fact that some versions are less stable than others. If you have some experience with this stuff it would be nice if you can verify whether there is a bug in GS. At the moment I'm preparing a GS-Win32 package for TeX Live based on gs-8.60. I don't insist on the latest release, I need the most stable one and I need feedback from users. Regarding auctex, I'm not sure but I remember that I have seen error messages produced by ghostscript. Don't know why Peter doesn't see them. On the other hand it is too long ago to make reliable statements. However, a good thing would be if auctex evaluates the exit status of the ghostscript process and produces its own error message if it's !=0. At the moment we are discussing how to provide GS for Windows in TeX Live 2008. There is always the problem what to do with versions of Perl and GS already installed on the system. For Perl we have a very nice solution now. We provide a Perl which is not really installed (not in PATH and PERL5LIB not set in the environment) but we provide wrapper scripts for all programs we provide which set PATH and PERL5LIB locally and avoid a lot of problems with already installed stuff. We consider to do the same with GS, too. But then it is not sufficient to copy the GS batch files to bin/win32, we have to replace them by wrapper scripts. The question is: What is needed by auctex? As far as I can see it depends on pdf2dsc, at least. If more is needed, please let me know. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
