reading tex files

reading tex files

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

I have some .tex files generated after I unpacked some file.tex.tgz,
what do I need to display/read those files under emacs21.4
debian/testing? I am not after creating/editing tex files, I just want
to read the stuff.

thanks

Re: reading tex files

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have some .tex files generated after I unpacked some file.tex.tgz,
> what do I need to display/read those files under emacs21.4
> debian/testing? I am not after creating/editing tex files, I just want
> to read the stuff.

Do you mean "reading" as an equivalent to opening the file or do you
mean it as "displaying the content without those commands and stuff"?
The first case asks you to simply open the file and to ... read.  Yepp.
The latter case asks for "texing" the *.tex file.  To do this there
exist several ways ... so what is what you want to do?

ray

Re: reading tex files

[Fred J.]

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Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <Raimund.Kohl@nabuli.de> wrote: Gary Wessle 
 wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have some .tex files generated after I unpacked some file.tex.tgz,
> what do I need to display/read those files under emacs21.4
> debian/testing? I am not after creating/editing tex files, I just want
> to read the stuff.

Do you mean "reading" as an equivalent to opening the file or do you
mean it as "displaying the content without those commands and stuff"?
The first case asks you to simply open the file and to ... read.  Yepp.
The latter case asks for "texing" the *.tex file.  To do this there
exist several ways ... so what is what you want to do?

ray

that latter, that is to be able to read without all the code \f \b things, like a lormal doc.

		
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Re: reading tex files

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

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> 
> Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <Raimund.Kohl@nabuli.de> wrote: Gary Wessle 
>  wrote:
> 
> Do you mean "reading" as an equivalent to opening the file or do you
> mean it as "displaying the content without those commands and stuff"?
> The first case asks you to simply open the file and to ... read.  Yepp.
> The latter case asks for "texing" the *.tex file.  To do this there
> exist several ways ... so what is what you want to do?
> 
> ray
> 
> that latter, that is to be able to read without all the code \f \b
> things, like a lormal doc.

you seem to not be familiar with TeX/LaTeX ... well ... ok, first you
need to have the tetex packages installed.  On Debian you need the
following packages (use: apt-get install ...)

tetex-base (Basic library files of teTeX)
tetex-extra (Additional library files of teTeX)

(should you want to "dive" deeper into LaTeX you are going to need also:
tetex-doc - The documentation component of the Debian teTeX packages)

Now, given you are in dired within emacs (that looks like:

 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund   8549 2006-03-06 15:19 dvd-v1.tex)

you then (in this example) place the cursor on "dvd-v1.tex" and use
shell command "!" (you simply use the exclamation mark).  The
shell-command opens the minibuffer on the bottom of your screen and asks
for a command.  Here you type "latex" ... looks like:


Shell command: latex
               ^^^^^

that's all.  Now emacs runs LaTeX on the file.  After it's done with it,
still being in dired-mode, you type in the small "g" letter.  Now you
will see that emacs added some files.  With my example it would look
like:

 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund   1110 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.aux
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund  18276 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.dvi
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund  10572 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.log
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund    427 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.out
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund   8549 2006-03-06 15:19 dvd-v1.tex

This being so you now place the curser on the file dvd-v1.dvi.  Again
you use the shell command with the command "xdvi" ... this will look
like


Shell command: xdvi


and -voila- emacs opens the xdvi-viewer.  Here you can see the whole
document as it was meant to be seen - without all the LaTeX commands.

There are other ways to do this.  Since you seem to not be familiar with
TeX/LaTex I thought this beginners instruction would suffice.

Happy TeXing :-)

ray

Re: reading tex files

[Maarten Bergvelt]

In article <874q0h7ef4.fsf@localhost.localdomain>, Gary Wessle wrote:
> I have some .tex files generated after I unpacked some file.tex.tgz,
> what do I need to display/read those files under emacs21.4
> debian/testing? I am not after creating/editing tex files, I just want
> to read the stuff.

Hm, why don't you just open them in emacs? These are regular text
files. What is the problem? If you just want to read them emacs might
be overkill, just use more (is less).

Puzzled,

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Re: reading tex files

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.04.2006 um 19:28 schrieb Gary Wessle:

> what do I need to display/read those files under emacs21.4
> debian/testing?

Nothing. Why do you think TeX files would need something special?

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Re: reading tex files

[Robert D. Crawford]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

>> what do I need to display/read those files under emacs21.4
>> debian/testing?
>
> Nothing. Why do you think TeX files would need something special?

I think you might be misunderstanding the poster.  I think he wants the
formatted output, not the tex source.

sl2h  or latex2html might work if the files are actually latex and not
tex.  There might be a tex to html or ascii converter, but I have not
searched and my quick apropos on my system did not find them.

rdc

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Re: reading tex files

[raloupower]

AUCTEX is a mode for emacs in order to compil tex files very simply.

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


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