How to compile/view document in LaTex mode??

How to compile/view document in LaTex mode??

[JS]

I have writtin a LaTex document in emacs. But how do I compile/view it??

>From the menu I chose Tex File and that seemed to compile it, but when I
press Tex View in the new buffer that opens I get this error message:

You must set 'tex-dvi-view-command'

Does anyone how to get it to work?

Re: How to compile/view document in LaTex mode??

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "JS" == JS  <d44sf@44ada.com> writes:

  JS> I have writtin a LaTex document in emacs. But how do I
  JS> compile/view it??

  JS> From the menu I chose Tex File and that seemed to compile it,
  JS> but when I press Tex View in the new buffer that opens I get
  JS> this error message:

  JS> You must set 'tex-dvi-view-command'

  JS> Does anyone how to get it to work?

My own advice is to install auctex

http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

Once you have done this, it all becomes easy. It integrates very
nicely with the various different tex's, so if you use more than one
(I use tetex and miktex), switching between them becomes easy. 

Cheers

Phil

Re: How to compile/view document in LaTex mode??

[Kevin Rodgers]

JS wrote:
 > I have writtin a LaTex document in emacs. But how do I compile/view it??
 >
 > From the menu I chose Tex File and that seemed to compile it, but when I
 > press Tex View in the new buffer that opens I get this error message:
 >
 > You must set 'tex-dvi-view-command'
 >
 > Does anyone how to get it to work?

,----[ C-h v tex-dvi-view-command RET ]
| tex-dvi-view-command's value is nil
|
| Documentation:
| *Command used by M-x tex-view to display a `.dvi' file.
| If this string contains an asterisk (`*'), that is replaced by the 
file name;
| otherwise, the file name, preceded by blank, is added at the end.
|
| This can be set conditionally so that the previewer used is suitable 
for the
| window system being used.  For example,
|
|     (setq tex-dvi-view-command
|           (if (eq window-system 'x) "xdvi" "dvi2tty * | cat -s"))
|
| would tell M-x tex-view to use xdvi under X windows and to use dvi2tty
| otherwise.
|
| Defined in `loaddefs.el'.
`----

-- 
Kevin Rodgers