* Reuben Thomas (2010-04-18) writes: > I have a bundle of overlapping questions, effectively: > > 1. I was trying to print PDF files, having chosen to use PDFTeX minor > mode. Should I expect the printer command to have been adjusted > automatically? When I tried to print with C-c C-c P(rint), I got the > command dvips -f foo | lpr, which would of course have failed to find > a DVI file.
At the moment there is unfortunately no automatism for switching the printing command based on the produced output. > 2. I then tried to find out what to customize, and lit on > TeX-printer-command, but customizing this didn't change the command I > was offered. You probably mean `TeX-print-command'. There is no variable named `TeX-printer-command'. > 3. I then found TeX-printer-list, which contained the command I was > being offered. > > The manual doesn't mention either TeX-printer-command or > TeX-printer-list AFAICS, so I am puzzled: what is TeX-printer-command > for, and what is TeX-printer-list for? Is there overlap or redundancy > to fix here? See the description of the variable `TeX-printer-list available via `C-h v TeX-printer-list <RET>'. And yes, somebody™ should document this in the manual. > I see in the ChangeLog for 11.86 "An easy way to switch between TeX > engines (PDFTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX, Omega) was added.", so perhaps I > should install 11.86 and try again? The code related to printing wasn't touched between 11.85 and 11.86. > (It would be nice if AuCTeX were > available to package.el, is that in the works?) I am not aware of such an effort. -- Ralf _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
