Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Problem with preview and auctex

[David Kastrup]

Alexandre Tachard Passos <address@hidden> writes:

> I try to run preview-document on some latex documents and I get a weird error:
>
> [snip]
> Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Mon Mar  3 23:05:53
> Running `Preview-DviPS' with ``dvips -Pwww harmonic-analysis-evaluation.dvi -o
> harmonic-analysis-evaluation.prv/tmp20843hZm/preview.ps''
>
> Preview-DviPS morto at Mon Mar  3 23:05:53
> LaTeX: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
>
>
> What does it mean?

Could be a bug.

> My document has no images, but it has a bibliography and tables.

Only the tables would probably count.  But I would guess that your
document contains only tabulars (rather than tables) and thus is
completely without previewable material, and that the error message is a
bug in how this gets treated.

> The dvi file exists. My .emacs has just
>
> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'reftex-mode)

Which is wrong.  Use turn-on-reftex instead of reftex-mode.

> of reftex or auctex-related things. I'm using debian unstable, and the
> versions I have are:

Please use

M-x preview-report-bug RET

for reporting bugs with all useful information.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum