I am new to emacs.
Welcome!
I have too instalations and two problems. Both are on Debian,
installed from packages.
1. When I try to save it says: Symbol's function definition is void:
call-with-transparent-undo. Well in fact whatever I do gives me
this, preview too. So I am learning emacs and latex, but can't see
or use anything I type in.
Are you using GNU Emacs or XEmacs? As far as I know, only XEmacs has
a function called `call-with-transparent-undo'. If you get this error
in GNU Emacs, then you are probably using a lisp package that was
intended for XEmacs.
2. on my laptop it works (saving), but I have problem with other
things. First of all I don't see the same toolbar as on my other
computer.
If you see a different toolbar, then most likely, one of your emacsen
is GNU Emacs while the other is XEmacs.
When I find file, Yatex invites me, but I dont have
Command Preview and Latex.
The Command and Latex menus belong to the AUC TeX package, the Preview
menu belongs to the Preview package. Maybe these packages are not
installed (properly)?
When I try to select LaTex command from Yatex > Process > LaTex
it says /bin/bash: line 1: platex: command not found. I have
installed the ptex-bin package which should contain platex, but
peoblems pertains.
What happens if you just invoke platex in a console? (Type `platex'
at the shell prompt.)
3. (ok not only two problems...) I can save and then generate dvi file
with latex. But I can do it only with English. I am sorry for this,
maybe I can read it somewhere, but I did I wasn't really able to
find something I could easily use. I need to get pdf or ps with
lots of "abnormal" characters like Chinese, doubled and trippled
diacritics. I set the environment to utf-8-unix and saved the file
like utf-8-unix, but instead of my characters I got only little bit
of mess, some of original even disappeared.
I'm not very intimate with internationalization, but in general you
use latex to get a dvi file from latex source files (*.tex files).
From the dvi file you can create a postscript file with dvips, or a
pdf file with dvipdf. There are also latex compilers that can
generate pdf files directly.
Lute.