Re: [AUCTeX] The Journal of Statisticsl Software style file breaks preview

[Faheem Mitha]

Hi Tassilo,

Thanks for writing.

On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Faheem Mitha <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Faheem,
>
> > The jss.sty style file contained in
> > http://www.jstatsoft.org/downloads/JSSstyle.zip breaks AUCTeX's
> > preview for me even with a simple file. NOTE: the jsslogo.jpg file is
> > also required. For example,the following file
> >
> >     \documentclass[article]{jss}
> >     \begin{document}
> >     $x$
> >     \end{document}
> >
> > gives the error
> >
> >     LaTeX found no preview images
> >
> > Can anyone
> >
> > a) confirm this
>
> No, it works just fine for me (see attached screenshot) using the
> current git version of AUCTeX.  Concering preview, the current git
> version has no changes with respect to 11.87 (or 11.87.2 from ELPA), so
> it should work there, too.

> What version of AUCTeX are you using?  In case it's older than 11.87,
> could you please try upgrading?  In case it already is 11.87, could you
> tell us the contents of the output buffer (`C-c C-l' in the tex buffer
> after generating the previews)?

I'm using the Debian Auctex 11.87-1 package from unstable. This is the
upstream package with some patches added, but mostly the patches look
quite harmless.

> > b) tell me what the problem is?
>
> > I've also posted this to tex.stackexchange.com at
> > http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/151696/3406
>
> Ok, there you've posted more details.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ERROR: Illegal parameter number in definition of \MYLATEXline.

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> Honestly, I have no clue what's the source of the error, but preview
> doesn't define or fiddle with \MYLATEXline, so the culprit is probably
> in you LaTeX installation.  (Googling shows that this macro comes from
> the mylatex package which can be used to pre-generate format files for
> speeding up later compilations...)

Ok. The LaTeX installation is just the default TeX Live 2012
installation that comes with Debian wheezy.

I'm attaching the contents of the output buffer (`C-c C-l' in the
tex buffer after generating the previews) as requested.

I think that auctex (or preview) has some debugging information you
can send in. I'll check.

                                                    Regards, Faheem

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Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `test' with ``pdflatex -ini -interaction=nonstopmode "&pdflatex" 
prv_test.ini   
"\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}"
 "\input" test.tex''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) (INITEX)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./prv_test.ini
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/carlisle/mylatex.ltx)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex File ignored))
No auxiliary output files.

(./test.tex (./jss.cls
Document Class: jss 2013/04/06 2.2 jss class by Achim Zeileis
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg)
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty))))
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<2008/02/07> (tvz)
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(That makes 100 errors; please try again.)
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on prv_test.log.

Preview-LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Sat Jan  4 17:12:11
Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `test' with ``pdflatex -shell-escape  
"\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}"
 "\input" test.tex''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
 \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, lo
aded.

No auxiliary output files.

(./test.tex (./jss.cls
Document Class: jss 2013/04/06 2.2 jss class by Achim Zeileis
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
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Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Sat Jan  4 17:12:11
LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images