Hi, currently TeX-view-program-selection, when it detects a mac os x system, associates output-dvi to viewer "open" which in turn in TeX-view-program-list-builtin is mapped to do "open %o"
However the effect of this ultimate system call (as one can also see doing "open file.dvi" directly in a Terminal or via "!" in a dired buffer) is first to convert the dvi to pdf format and then open it in a pdf viewer. (tested on mac os x mavericks) (Note: people with TeXShop installed or similar will perhaps have another experience of how the system reacts to "open file.dvi", but of course, I address here the issue of using emacs+auctex, not TeXShop) This pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having chosen dvi as output format! Perhaps I missed something obvious, but anyway, some years back I had to deal with this issue, and I describe here how I went about it: I defined a "xdvi" entry in TeX-view-program-list, which is the same as the one I found destined to Linux systems in TeX-view-program-list-builtin, with the sole difference of having replaced "%(o?)xdvi" with "open -a XQuartz && %(o?)xdvi" I then customized TeX-view-program-selection to let it map output-dvi not to "open" but to this "xdvi" viewer. I don't know how people go about it, but I am curious why I had to do these things, and why this is not the default in AUCTeX, on mac os x. (I hope only naivety and not arrogance will be seen in my belief that my private customizations should be made world-wide default ;-) the point of my message is to ask if someone has a better way to go about this) Best wishes, Jean-Francois _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
