Re: [ Re: Problem with MS Windows-based Installation]

Ciaran Taylor wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
That should have said "using (require 'tex-mik) in my .emacs"

(Blushes)

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