[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: CVS-1.221; mismatched {} in commented text cause preview to fail

[David Kastrup]

[This was sent with braindead headers, so I retry again.  Don't answer
to the last mail.]

Chris Wallace <address@hidden> writes:

> Remember to cover the basics.  Including a minimal LaTeX example
> file exhibiting the problem might help.
>
> Doing C-c C-p C-b on this file causes the error 
> "error in process sentinel: LaTeX found no preview images"
>
> \documentclass{article}
> %{
> \begin{document}
> An equation: $x=y^2$.
> \end{document}
>
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-master: t
> %%% End:
>
> The problem is the unmatched '{' character.  (I have a lot of
> commented stuff at the start of my file, and while it shouldn't be
> incorrect, I didn't suspect that unmatched characters within comments
> would cause any problem).
>
> I'm afraid I don't know enough to be able to track the problem.

Well, just answer "no" to the question whether you should cache the
preamble, or equivalently to C-c C-p C-c C-f.  It would appear that
you are confusing mylatex.ltx (which preview-latex uses for its
preamble dumping), so you might want to report this as a bug to David
Carlisle.  Whether this will be high priority for him, I somewhat
doubt, however.

I have redirected the reply to the bug-auctex list, just that you are
not surprised about that.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum