whizzytex mode broken?

[Uwe Mayer]

Hi,

I'm running Debian unstable with whizzytex (version 1.1.3.0-3). Since my
last update whizzytex does not initialise properly:

I started with a minimalistic LaTeX document which compiles flawlessly in
the command line. No error messages, no warning, just the usual info
output.

Once I start whizzytex-mode the mode is displayed as "(LaTeX Whizzy.?)" and
the current slice is highlighted. Any keypress or mouse click results in
Emacs switching back to LaTeX mode and the minibar displaying: "Mode
switched off externally".

If I switch on interactive mode (C-return) the following messages appear:
-- snip --
/usr/lib/whizzytex/whizzytex
-marks
-advi
advi -html Start-Document
main.tex
<Initial formating succeeded>
advi -html Start-Document
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(./_whizzy_main_nil.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, l
atin, nohyphenation, loaded.
No file _whizzy_main_nil.aux.

! LaTeX Error: The font size command \normalsize is not defined:
               there is probably something wrong with the class file.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.1 \begin{document}
                    \WhizzyEmptyPage\end{document}
? ! Undefined control sequence.
l.1 \begin{document}\WhizzyEmptyPage
                                    \end{document}
? (./_whizzy_main_nil.aux) )
No pages of output.
Transcript written on _whizzy_main_nil.log.
*** Fatal error:  Cannot build initial page
<Quitting>
Quitting (SIGTERM)

Process main.tex terminated
-- snip --

Regarding the LaTeX Error some google FAQ says that this might be due to a
broken .sty file, but much more probable is that I forgott a \documentclass
(which I didn't).

While searching google I found out that I don't have an entry in fmtutil.cnf
for whizzytex. I don't know wether this is important, but it came up at
some point.

If I additionally turn on the debug mode, the following is appended to above
error lines:
-- snip --
+ fatal 'Cannot build initial page'
+ errlog '*** Fatal error: ' 'Cannot build initial page'
+ echo '*** Fatal error:  Cannot build initial page'
*** Fatal error:  Cannot build initial page
+ '[' -f /home/merkosh/_whizzy_main_d/tmp/err ']'
+ cat /home/merkosh/_whizzy_main_d/tmp/err
+ runinitex '&latex'
'\nonstopmode\makeatletter\def\SourceFile{\def\whizzy@master}\makeatother\let\Documentclass\documentclass\renewcommand{\documentclass
[2][]{\Documentclass[#1
{#2}\let\WhizzyAdvi1\def\WhizzyExt{.tex}\input{/usr/share/texmf/tex/whizzytex/whizzytex.sty}}\input{main.tex}'
+ ulimit -t 20
+ initex '&latex'
'\nonstopmode\makeatletter\def\SourceFile{\def\whizzy@master}\makeatother\let\Documentclass\documentclass\renewcommand{\documentclass
[2][]{\Documentclass[#1
{#2}\let\WhizzyAdvi1\def\WhizzyExt{.tex}\input{/usr/share/texmf/tex/whizzytex/whizzytex.sty}}\input{main.tex}'
+ echo '<Quitting>'
<Quitting>
+ cleanquit 'Cannot build initial page'
+ trap - SIGTERM
+ echo 'Quitting (Cannot build initial page)'
Quitting (Cannot build initial page)
+ clean
+ '[' -f /home/merkosh/_whizzy_main_d/tmp/pids ']'
+ rm -f _whizzy_main.fmt _whizzy_main_nil.aux _whizzy_main_nil.log
_whizzy_main_nil.tex main.fmt main.wdvi
+ true
+ :
+ rm -f ._whizzy_main.tex
+ kill -TERM 0

Process main.tex terminated
-- snip --

Google knows very little about whizzytex, maybe someone here has an idea?

Thanks in advance
Ciao
Uwe