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From: Ralf Angeli <dev.null@caeruleus.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auctex&Beamer recognising pdftex mode automatically
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:08:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4644b10c$0$23133$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.514.1178876409.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

* Peter Dyballa (2007-05-11) writes:

> In a modern TeX installation latex is a sym-link, for example to  
> pdftex, which itself is actually pdfetex. So latex produces PDF  
> directly.

If you call `latex', it does not unless you fiddle with the input.

> You can make AUCTeX prefer pdfTeX by adding this customisation(s,  
> enabling micro-typography for DVI output, too):
>
> 	 '(TeX-PDF-mode t)

That activates PDF output.

> 	; '(TeX-DVI-via-PDFTeX t)

That's obviously of no use since it is commented.  It's additionally
useless if PDFTeX is the default engine.

> The third option is to add a file local variable:
>
> 	%%% TeX-command-default: "pdfelatex"
>
> which needs to de defined as a TeX command in AUCTeX.

The idea of TeX PDF mode is that `C-c C-c LaTeX RET' produces PDF
output without having to define a new command.  What you are
suggesting is unnecessary.

-- 
Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10 22:14 Auctex&Beamer recognising pdftex mode automatically Brendan Halpin
2007-05-10 23:18 ` Lars Madsen
2007-05-10 23:48 ` Amy Templeton
2007-05-11  5:45 ` Ulrich M. Schwarz
2007-05-11  6:00   ` Ralf Angeli
2007-05-11  9:32 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.506.1178841043.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-11 15:35   ` Brendan Halpin
     [not found] ` <mailman.514.1178876409.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-11 18:08   ` Ralf Angeli [this message]
2007-05-12 21:10 ` Stephen Eglen
2007-05-12 21:25   ` Ralf Angeli
2007-05-13 12:58     ` Michele Dondi

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