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To determine the position of a preview, preview-latex correlates
error messages from TeX with the input text. The delivered example
file circ.tex
contains ISO-8859-1
input characters (also
called Latin-1
). If your language environment is not properly
set up, or your TeX version is rather old, TeX will, for
example, display ü
(German u-Umlaut) as ^^fc
. In that
case the correlation will fail, with the result that the preview
images get misplaced. Personally, I have set the environment variable
LANG
to the string en_US.ISO8859-1
. Your system may have
different ways of achieving something similar. If you have a
graphical login screen, chances are that it offers a Language
setting. It may help to choose US English
or similar instead
of the plain English
setting. This problem has also been
reported as being caused by teTeX compiled against libc5
libraries.
configure
currently tries checking for an 8-bit-clean
configuration of LaTeX and refuses to continue until you have fixed
it. If nothing else works and you would not need to have an 8-bit
clean installation, pass the option --disable-8bit-test
to
configure. This will usually result in circ.tex
and other files
with 8-bit characters not being properly previewed.
As a very last resort, when all of the regular attempts of getting your
system recognized as being able to deal with 8-bit characters by the
latex
executable fail, you might try to use M-x
customize-variable on the variable LaTeX-command-style
and
replace the command latex
with latex
-translate-file=cp8bit
.