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Preview TikZ figure in AUCTeX?

I am using AUCTeX on Emacs. Recently I began to draw pics using TikZ, but the problem is AUCTeX doesn't generate preview of this environment. (However, it does generate preview for the general figure ...
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AUCTeX preview font size too small

I have Emacs 24 and AUCTex on a Windows 7 machine, however the preview font size is just way too small. Is there a way to make them bigger?
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AUCTeX preview-latex previews are ugly (too narrow)

Is there a way to fix Emacs AUCTeX's preview-latex to make the previews look less ugly? Specifically, they are squashed vertically to a height of exactly one line of text. I have screenshots to show ...
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Customizing preview-latex command to use LaTeX when in TeX-Pdf mode

In short: Is there a way to tell preview-latex to NOT use pdflatex instead of just toggling TeX-Pdf mode every time I want to re-generate previews? I have a somewhat odd setup. AucTeX + GNU Emacs 24 ...
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AUCTeX: how to jump to PDF (with synctex) without recompile when inline preview has been created?

I'm using Aquamacs 2.4 on MacOS X 10.6.8 with pdflatex (TeXLive 2011). My problem: I can create inline previews of formulas, figures etc. in the source code with AUCTeX which is very helpful - e. ...
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Add -shell-escape option to the latex invocation of preview-latex in auctex

I need preview-latex to use the -shell-escape option when it invokes pdflatex, which is required by the minted package for syntax highlighting, as it invokes python. How can I do that?
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AUCTeX, preview-latex, and Ghostscript (Emacs)

I'll keep this short and sweet; Emacs can't find gs, which has been installed via brew and works fine. Error PDF2DSC sentinel: Searching for program: No such file or directory, gs MWE ...
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Preview in auctex on debian stable works in dvi mode, but fails on pdf mode

My auctex renders preview images on my debian stable system (6.0.6) if I set it to dvi mode, but it fails if I set auctex to pdf mode. I assume there is either a mistake in my emacs configuration ...
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Auctex preview: How to suppress opening a new window?

I have emacs+gtk installed on Ubuntu11. I'm just new to Auctex but very interested in it. When completed my .tex document, command C-c,C-c compiles successfully. But repeating C-c,C-c yields option ...
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Preview-latex background color

I'm using AUCTeX + preview-latex to preview math formulas. In addition, I'm using the zenburn color scheme, which has a dark background. Unfortunately, the rendered math previews have a white ...
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AUCTeX XeLaTeX preview fails: fontspec cannot-use-pdftex error

I am struggling setting up AUCTeX preview in a way that I can use it with XeLaTeX documents. When I try to generate the previews I get the following error cannot-use-pdftex generated by the ...
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Sluggish cursor movement in emacs LaTeX-mode

I'm editing a large (around 50k words) tex file in Emacs using AUCTeX and cursor movement is quite sluggish, especially when jumping by word. This isn't a problem in any other mode. Edit: I did some ...
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Problem getting preview to work in Auctex on Windows 7

I'm trying to get preview of math formulas to work in AUCTeX. When running M-x preview-buffer on simple test document I get the following error: Preview-DviPS finished at Wed Dec 28 00:53:14 DviPS ...
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Emacs + Auctex, Latex environment

I'm writing a document in LaTeX. The document is divided in .tex documents and compiled using a Makefile. My question is, could I see the dvi/PDF for the section of the document that I'm already ...
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preview-latex does not function

Preview-latex installs, but doesn't actually preview. When I generate the preview from the source, all I see is... the source. For example, the math equations are highlighted, but not rendered. Some ...
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preview-latex in emacs auctex: empty boxes?

I originally posted this question directly on the Auctex mailing list but did not receive a response. I'll hopefully get more luck on the TeX Exchange. I was recently reminded by this post regarding ...
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AUCTeX region preview in Emacs

I've installed AUCTeX and passed the circ.tex preview, however, when I'm trying to add more elements (enumerate, tabular) to preview with \PreviewEnvironment{..} in the preamble, AUCTeX ignores these ...
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How to preview LaTeX in Emacs?

I want a similar layout as in SO, I use it currently as my editor but I would like to find such tool under my fingers. I am more vi-prone so having hard time to get preview-latex working with emacs. I ...