Hi Johnny san,
This error sometimes happens, but usually that is due to the
lack of breqn.sty or related latex packages. But in your case,
things seem to be installed correctly,,,,
I will try Fedora 17 by myself and will share with you my
experiences.
Yasuaki Honda, maintaining imaxima and imath
2012/10/19 Johnny <yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am still struggling to get IMaxima in emacs to work (previous thread),
> but as this is quite different it was worth a new thread. Fedora 17,
> Emacs 24.1.1.
>
> After installing the required packages according to [1], I start emacs
> in Imaxima and get the following:
>
> ,----
> | (%i1) f(x):=x;
> |
> | LaTeX error in: f\left(x\right):=x
> | (%i2)
> `----
>
> I have checked my installation by running:
>
> ,----
> | [johnny at elmachina ~]$ yum list emacs maxima sbcl texlive ghostscript gnuplot; kpsewhich breqn.sty expl3.sty
> | Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> | Installed Packages
> | emacs.i686 1:24.1-4.fc17
> | ghostscript.i686 9.05-4.fc17
> | gnuplot.i686 4.4.4-3.fc17
> | maxima.i686 5.27.0-3.fc17
> | sbcl.i686 1.0.57-1.fc17
> | texlive.i686 2007-70.fc17
> | /home/johnny/texmf/tex/mh/breqn.sty
> | /home/johnny/texmf/tex/l3kernel/expl3.sty
> `----
>
> And in my emacs .init file I have:
>
> ,----
> | (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/maxima/5.27.0/emacs/") |
> | (autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima" "Maxima mode" t) |
> | (autoload 'imaxima "imaxima" "Frontend for maxima with Image support" t) |
> | (autoload 'maxima "maxima" "Maxima interaction" t) |
> | (autoload 'imath-mode "imath" "Imath mode for math formula input" t) |
> | (setq imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag t) |
> `----
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Johnny
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] https://sites.google.com/site/imaximaimath/download-and-install
>
> --
> Johnny
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