Mosè Giordano writes:
>> If that's the case, I'd suggest that we change that and alway call
>> them from the master file buffer. Otherwise, we need to make many
>> buffer-local variables (TeX-engine, extra-options, ...)
>> document-local by stuffing them into the auto file. Or do you see a
>> u
2015-02-20 11:50 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn :
> Mosè Giordano writes:
>> but I think those variables are evaluated in the buffer calling the
>> commands, not in the master file.
>
> If that's the case, I'd suggest that we change that and alway call them
> from the master file buffer. Otherwise, we ne
Mosè Giordano writes:
>>> (One of) The main problem was how to share such variable across
>>> multiple files of the same document (store it in the auto file?),
>>> but there is the same problem for other variables like
>>> `TeX-engine'.4
>>
>> Is that necessary? I mean, tex commands are either i
2015-02-20 10:19 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn :
>> Last year I tried to work on implementing a local variable to specify
>> the output directory, and so indirectly fix Alistair's problem, but
>> I've never finished it.
>
> Couldn't you simply put the -output-directory option into
> `TeX-command-extra-opt
Mosè Giordano writes:
>> I'm not exactly sure why the default is to compile a document with
>>
>> latex "\input yourfile.tex"
>>
>> instead of just
>>
>> latex yourfile.tex
>>
>> when using latex/pdflatex but I guess there's a reason, so that
>> suggestion might have some caveat I'm not awa
Hi Tassilo,
2015-02-17 9:31 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn :
> Alistair Windsor writes:
>
> Hi Alistair,
>
>> I would like to use the first line of my tex file to specify an
>> alternative destination for the output file using %&
>> -output-directory. This works fine when I do pdflatex myfile.tex but
>>
Alistair Windsor writes:
Hi Alistair,
> I would like to use the first line of my tex file to specify an
> alternative destination for the output file using %&
> -output-directory. This works fine when I do pdflatex myfile.tex but
> when I execute latex from with auc-tex I get pdflatex
> "\input
I would like to use the first line of my tex file to specify an alternative
destination for the output file using %& -output-directory. This works fine
when I do pdflatex myfile.tex but when I execute latex from with auc-tex I
get pdflatex "\input{myfile.tex}}" which thus bypasses the pre-compiler.