Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.82; preview-latex on ms-wxp?

[David Kastrup]

"Luedde, Mirko" <address@hidden> writes:

> hi there!
>
> trying out the preview-latex of auctex-11-82 on ms-wxp with a freshly
> built emacs-21-4-1 i get "LaTeX: preview-image-type setting 'png
> unsupported by this Emacs". also pnm images do not work. 
>
> info section "2.7 Installation under MS Windows" is telling me "all
> current Emacs/XEmacs versions capable of running preview-latex by now
> can be compiled to support PNG images."
>
> so 
>
> * is emacs on ms-wxp "capable of running preview-latex"? 

>From INSTALL.windows:

  3. Install a current version of XEmacs from `http://www.xemacs.org'
     or try getting and compiling a developer version of Emacs 22 from
     Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs).  Compiling
     Emacs is outside of the scope of this manual.  Precompiled versions
     currently happen to be available at
     `http://www.crasseux.com/emacs/' and `http://nqmacs.sf.net/'.

Note aside: with preinstalled AUCTeX available from
<URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex>.

     If you don't want to use a developer version and Emacs 22 has not
     yet been released, it is also possible to use an Emacs 21 binary
     from `http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/windows/emacs/', but then you
     should disable the installation of preview-latex (it will not
     work).  Since the developer version has seen quite a few
     improvements relevant also for other features of AUCTeX, we really
     recommend you give it a try.

> * if so, how "can (emacs) be compiled to support PNG images"?

Why don't you get a precompiled version?

> * if no png support is available, what would work? 

Nothing with Emacs-21.4.

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