Re: Problem with MS Windows-based Installation

First, thanks to Ciaran for replying.

The tex-mik.el, however, does not solve everything. My book is
in multiple tex files. When I use "view" from the master file, it does
bring up YAP. When I use "view" from one of the component tex file,
it calls again "xdvi". I am able to "latex" from the component tex files,
which means my emacs file variables are correct.

Jun

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:01:30 +0000, Ciaran Taylor
<[email protected]> 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.
> 
> 
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