org-mode latex preview not working -newbie

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I have recently installed org-mode for emacs through its package manager, and for some reason the latex-previewing feature does not work. I've tried both imagemagick and dvipng.

The message that I get when I try [C-c C-x C-l] is: "Symbol's function definition is void: org-infile-export-plist." I'm relatively new to emacs so I'm not sure how to proceed. I've been googling for about 2 hours and I haven't found anyone with a similar problem.

I have the latest version of emacs and org-mode 7.9. I checked about mixed installation issues (as suggested by the org manual) and everything checks out. I'm running Linux mint 17.

Can someone suggest a solution?

ps: I've tried AucTex and that works, but I think it only works on .tex files, not on .org files.

Edit: since I made the post I've found out that several other commands are giving me the same error (with different variables after the colon). Is there something wrong with my installation?

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latexorg-modepreview
yes, the current version of org-mode is more like 8.2.10 when installed from ELPA. I guess you are using an older version somehow. – John Kitchin
I will try updating but somehow I don't think that's the problem. That's the standard version that comes with emacs, and I would think those basic features would work fine. – johnymm

2 Answers

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I was facing similar issue while trying to solve a bug in org-mode on spacemac, preview-toggle-latex-fragment which apparently causing the bug when the stack is in this order

  • spacemac 0.200.13
  • emacs-plus 25.3_2
  • org-plus-contrib-20180521

a few of this solution might come in handy, it didn't work for but it definitely gave me a broader view of the situation I'm facing

As I google-fu my way through, I stumbled upon a issue posted on d12frosted/homebrew-emacs, which sort of convince me to give mituharu/emacs-mac a try and it turned out that it worked really well out of the box and solve the problem.

My current working configuration for my (org-mode + latex) would be

  • spacemacs 0.300.0 ( dev branch )
  • emacs-mac 26.1
  • +emacs/org ( spacemac layer )
    • org-plus-contrib-20180521

  • latex-math-preview (elpa)

  • dvipng ( it wasn't on brew, it came with TexLive) 

    $ tlmgr install dvipng

  • TeXLive

Once you've solved the problem, you might find this helpful as well. auto preview latex fragment

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This is old but since I had the same issue, maybe it'll help someone else. This happens because the Org export functions haven't been loaded. Try doing export and cancelling it with the sequence C-c C-e q this will cause ox (Org export) to be loaded, and latex preview should now work. If that fixes your issue, add this to your .emacs:

;; Preload org export functions, needed for latex preview. 
(require 'ox)