[OS X Emacs] Switching from Carbon Emacs to Emacs.app

[Lindsay Stirton (Dr)]

Pete - I will try asap, but in truth I have still not managed to install
Auctex - Preview. I am going to visit a friend tonight who is a bit
savvy about these things. Maybe together with your earlier advice and
his help we will get things working. I will post back tomorrow. 

Lindsay


On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 05.01.2008 um 11:21 schrieb Lindsay Stirton:
> 
> > 1. I tried to install Enrico Franconi's Enhanced Carbon Emacs.  
> > Mostly, this
> > works OK but the Preview-LaTeX doesn't work. Here is a typical  
> > error message:
> >
> > Preview-Ghostscript finished at Fri Jan  4 21:26:41
> > Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``gs
> > -dOutputFile\=\(TMA01.prv/tmp90158CBL/pr195-\%d.png\) -q -dSAFER - 
> > dNOPAUSE
> > -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4
> > -sDEVICE\=png16m -r110.522x110.836''
> 
> I managed to launch Emacs.app without system and user init files,  
> with just some necessary lines to make it find AUCTeX and load  
> auctex.el and preview-latex.el – and a preview was built!
> 
> Lindsay, can you try this too? Since I found during this another bug  
> (it does not work to make it load and execute an ELisp file given on  
> the command line) you would need to prepare some file in another  
> Emacs with something like:
> 
> 	(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/Library/Application  
> Support/Emacs"))
> 	(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
> 	(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)
> 
> then launch, for example from this Emacs' *shell* buffer
> 
> 	/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q &
> 
> copy the three lines into the new Emacs.app's *scratch* buffer and  
> either mark them all and apply M-x eval-region RET or position the  
> cursor at the end of each line and press C-j at each line end, i.e.  
> three times. Then load the LaTeX file and try to preview a region!
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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