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preview-latex: Troubleshooting

 
 B.5 Troubleshooting
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 B.5.1 Preview causes all sort of strange error messages
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 When running preview-latex and taking a look at either log file or
 terminal output, lots of messages like
 
      ! Preview: Snippet 3 started.
      <-><->
 
      l.52 \item Sie lassen sich als Funktion $
                                               y = f(x)$ darstellen.
      ! Preview: Snippet 3 ended.(491520+163840x2494310).
      <-><->
 
      l.52 \item Sie lassen sich als Funktion $y = f(x)$
                                                         darstellen.
 
    appear (previous versions generated messages looking even more like
 errors).  Those are not real errors (as will be noted in the log file).
 Or rather, while they *are* really TeX error messages, they are
 intentional.  This currently is the only reliable way to pass the
 information from the LaTeX run of preview-latex to its Emacs part about
 where the previews originated in the source text.  Since they are actual
 errors, you will also get AUCTeX to state
      Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Wed Sep  4 17:03:30
    after the LaTeX run in the run buffer.  This merely indicates that
 errors were present, and errors will always be present when
 preview-latex is operating.  There might be also real errors, so in case
 of doubt, look for them explicitly in either run buffer or the resulting
 '.log' file.
 
 B.5.2 Why do my DVI and PDF output files vanish?
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 In order to produce the preview images preview-latex runs LaTeX on the
 master or region file.  The resulting DVI or PDF file can happen to have
 the same name as the output file of a regular LaTeX run.  So the regular
 output file gets overwritten and is subsequently deleted by
 preview-latex.
 
 B.5.3 My output file suddenly only contains preview images?!
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 As mentioned in the previews FAQ entry, preview-latex might use the file
 name of the original output file for the creation of preview images.  If
 the original output file is being displayed with a viewer when this
 happens, you might see strange effects depending on the viewer, e.g.  a
 message about the file being corrupted or the display of all the preview
 images instead of your typeset document.  (Also Customization.)
 

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