Elvis Chen wrote:
hi all,
sorry for what may be a trivial question, but please help if it is trivial
nonetheless :)
I'm trying to get PDFLaTeX to play nicely with emacs. I'm using Linux Suse 9.1 with Emacs-21.3. I would like to edit my ~/.gnu-emacs-custom such that I can rebind the keys:
Ctrl-c Ctrl-f to "pdflatex" my .tex file, and Ctrl-c Ctrl-v to launch xpdf to view the resulting .pdf file
can someone give me a hint please?
From emacsWiki I have found what may work: (setq tex-command "pdftex") (defun tex-view () (interactive) (tex-send-command "xpdf" (tex-append tex-print-file ".pdf")))
but it doesn't. my key-binding were still tied to latex/xdvi
tia,
ECC
(set-variable (quote latex-run-command) "pdflatex") (set-variable (quote tex-dvi-view-command) "xpdf")
You can also do this interactively by M-x customize-variable latex-run-command and the same for tex-dvi-view-command
This works for the standard mode of emacs. auctex has that functionality built-in. Some people in this list find unbelievable to not use auctex. I strongly disagree with this. Some people, as me, prefer to use the standard TeX mode.
Olive
Oups... to view the pdf; you must also change the extension of the "dvi" file. Put this in your .emacs
(defun tex-print (&optional alt)
"Print the .dvi file made by \\[tex-region], \\[tex-buffer] or \\[tex-file].
Runs the shell command defined by `tex-dvi-print-command'. If prefix argument
is provided, use the alternative command, `tex-alt-dvi-print-command'."
(interactive "P")
(let ((print-file-name-dvi (tex-append tex-print-file ".pdf"))
test-name)
(if (and (not (equal (current-buffer) tex-last-buffer-texed))
(buffer-file-name)
;; Check that this buffer's printed file is up to date.
(file-newer-than-file-p
(setq test-name (tex-append (buffer-file-name) ".pdf"))
(buffer-file-name)))
(setq print-file-name-dvi test-name))
(if (not (file-exists-p print-file-name-dvi))
(error "No appropriate `.dvi' file could be found")
(if (tex-shell-running)
(tex-kill-job)
(tex-start-shell))
(tex-send-command
(if alt tex-alt-dvi-print-command tex-dvi-print-command)
print-file-name-dvi t))))
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