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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: set tex-dvi-view-command  under windows
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 22:01:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2110-Sat07Dec2002220148+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <asqq47$u5bhn$1@ID-130404.news.dfncis.de> (Post@Coblenzer.de)

> From: "Thilo A. Coblenzer" <Post@Coblenzer.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:26:10 +0100
> 
> I just try to get GNU Emacs working with LaTeX under Windows 2000. I use
> MiKTeX as LaTeX-Distribution. My problem is setting the
> tex-dvi-view-command. I tried the following line in my .emacs-file:
> (setq tex-dvi-view-command "yap")
> The program yap is in the path. But I think the problem is the "\" from
> Windows and the "/" from Unix and of course the "&". When I do an "C-c C-v"
> I get this message from yap:
> "c:\AllgA.dvi: DVI file does not exist." But the file I want to open is:
> C:\AllgA Formalesammlung\AllgA.dvi
> 
> Can you tell me the correct syntax?

Try using the short 8+3 alias of "AllgA Formalesammlung", probably
something like "allgaf~1".

And no, forward slashes have nothing to do with your trouble, Windows
supports them just as well as it does backslashes.  It's the blank in
the file name that causes it to fail.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-07 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-06 18:26 set tex-dvi-view-command under windows Thilo A. Coblenzer
2002-12-07 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.3.1039291377.3906.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-12-10  6:30   ` Thilo A. Coblenzer

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