[ Re: Problem with MS Windows-based Installation]

eve wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>Your instructions in INSTALL.WINDOWS may have missed a serious issue.
>Auctex-11.55 uses "xdvi" for displaying DVI. On a MS windows-based machine,
>xdvi is not available. I think most people uses MiKTeX which gives us "yap".
>
>I tried to do a quick fix in tex.el but found use of other X-window
>based programs
>such as xpdf. Simply put, Auctex-11.55 is NOT for MS windows-based machines.
>I wish you have made that clear in your release note. 
>
>regards,
>
>Jun
>
>
>  
>
If you read

INSTALL.WINDOWS  as far as point 9, then what you find is:


9. For GNU Emacs, the recommended way to activate AUCTeX is to add the
     following line to your `.emacs' file:

          (require 'tex-site)

     The configuration for Windows systems is probably not quite
     fitting.  Instead of loading `tex-site.el' in that manner, you
     might want to load `tex-mik.el' (for MikTeX) or `tex-fptex' (for
     fpTeX) instead.

I'm using AUCTeX 11.55 on Windows XP Pro using (require 'tex-site) in my 
.emacs and it calls YAP just fine, as does C-c C-v.  There is nothing 
wrong with the AUCTeX installation instructions.

By the way I'm also running preview-latex 0.9 on GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 
(i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-01-30 on NONIQPC which I qot from 
http://nqmacs.sourceforge.net/.  That's working well (since I realised a 
few things).  There have been a few crashes:  I'm not sure whether to 
blame the CVS emacs, AUCTeX 11.55 or preview-latex 0.9.


Ciaran Taylor.

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