Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] rel-0-9-1; Two speed issues

[Ralf Stubner]

David Kastrup wrote:

> The format file is written, but preview-latex decides not to use it
> since an error occured when writing it.  So it gets removed again.  We
> won't change that: dumping the preamble using mylatex.ltx can cause
> errors even when the document would compile without it, so with an
> error, we should not use it, period.

Thanks for the explanation. Sounds reasonable.

>  You can easily avoid the error
> by using
> \newcommand{\makeindex}{}
> before loading natbib.sty, and obviously you should complain to the
> author of natbib about this asinine behavior.

I will do so. Currently I m using

\providecommand{\makeindex}{}

since this doesn't inhibit normal LaTeX runs. Unfortunately those are 
necessary sometimes to get all the included MeatPost diagrams (directly 
via emp.sty or indirectly via feynmp.sty) into the correct places. I 
haven't found a possibility yet to have those play nicely together with 
preview-latex. BTW, is it possible to call latex with '-shell-escape' on 
a case by case basis from within AUCTeX, similar to source specials or 
PDF mode?

Thanks for your help.

cheerio
ralf