Bug#1009332: maxima-emacs: Imaxima fails to render latex

[Balbir Thomas]

Package: maxima-emacs
Version: 5.44.0-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Running imaxima in Emacs does not result in pretty latex output. Instead
an error message is show.

Steps to reproduce

1) Launch Emacs and run M-x imaxima

2) At the maxima prompt type say

diff(x**2, x) ;

and press enter

3) An LaTeX pretty printed result should be show but instead the
following error message is produced : "LaTeX error in: 2\,x"


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages maxima-emacs depends on:
ii emacs-gtk [emacsen] 1:27.1+1-3.1
ii emacsen-common 3.0.4
ii maxima 5.44.0-3
ii maxima-doc 5.44.0-3
ii tex-common 6.16
ii texlive-binaries [texlive-base-bin] 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii texlive-latex-recommended 2020.20210202-3

Versions of packages maxima-emacs recommends:
ii evince [postscript-viewer] 3.38.2-1
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.7.4-2+b1
ii mime-support 3.66
ii mupdf [pdf-viewer] 1.17.0+ds1-2
ii xpdf [pdf-viewer] 3.04+git20210103-3

maxima-emacs suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Camm Maguire]

tags 1009332 +unreproducible
thanks

Greetings, and thanks for your report. Just tested in a fresh chroot,
and all works fine once ghostscript is installed, which is a dependency
issue that needs addressing. This would not account for your latex
error. More log info please if this is still live.

Take care,
--
Camm Maguire ca...@maguirefamily.org
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