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First you should make sure that AUC TeX gets loaded. You then need to
place a few lines in your personal .emacs
file (or a site-wide
configuration file).
For XEmacs, if you specified a valid package directory during installation, or none at all, then XEmacs installation should do everything necessary in order to install preview-latex as a package and activate it. Restarting XEmacs should then make the package visible, and C-c C-p C-d should produce previews.
If you used --with-packagedir
, you have to make sure that the
directory lisp/preview
under the directory you specified is in
XEmacs' load-path
variable.
For GNU Emacs, the recommended way to activate preview-latex is to
copy the file preview-latex.el
(which is generated during the
installation) to a place where your installation keeps automatically
loaded startup files. Alternatively, you can copy it to some place on
your load-path
and load it with
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)
That is all. There are other ways of achieving the equivalent thing, but we don't mention them here any more since they are not better, and people got confused into trying everything at once.
preview-latex.el
itself is rather short, and loaded quite fast.
When you first load a LaTeX file, preview.el
itself gets
loaded (if you have AUC TeX up and working). C-c C-p C-d should
then give you a graphics preview. You can customize the default option
set and other settings of the Emacs package by entering M-x
customize-group <RET> preview <RET>.
There is a sample file circ.tex
which you can use for testing
around a bit, and which serves as sort of a reference for initial bug
reports. See
Known problems
for a list of known problems.