pdflatex, emacs in windows....

pdflatex, emacs in windows....

[bgm-rao]

What do you folks use to convert tex files to pdf in windows? How do I
set this up to work within emacs?  I am sorry if this isn't the
correct forum to address this question to.

I recently had to move to Windows and have to get this working. I did
not find any useful information after looking in google/emacswiki/pdftex pages.

Regards, Madhu

Re: pdflatex, emacs in windows....

[Maarten Bergvelt]

In article <mailman.4754.1171909792.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, 
<bgm-rao@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> What do you folks use to convert tex files to pdf in windows? How do I
> set this up to work within emacs?  I am sorry if this isn't the
> correct forum to address this question to.

I assume you have already a TeX installation (e'g. Miktex)

Then use the emacs+auctex bundle, see
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

and 
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/emacs+auctex-w32-2007-01-26.zip

In auctex it is a matter of doing

C-c C-c Latex PDF

instead of 

C-c C-c Latex

(and there is tab completion, so you don't need to type all of
this). I guess you can also set it up to always use latex pdf instead
of just latex, read the auctex documentation.

Highly recommended.

-- 
Maarten Bergvelt		

Re: pdflatex, emacs in windows....

[Ralf Angeli]

* Maarten Bergvelt (2007-02-19) writes:

> In article <mailman.4754.1171909792.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, 
> <bgm-rao@ieee.org> wrote:
>> 
>> What do you folks use to convert tex files to pdf in windows? How do I
>> set this up to work within emacs?  I am sorry if this isn't the
>> correct forum to address this question to.
>
> I assume you have already a TeX installation (e'g. Miktex)
>
> Then use the emacs+auctex bundle, see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
>
> and 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/emacs+auctex-w32-2007-01-26.zip
>
> In auctex it is a matter of doing
>
> C-c C-c Latex PDF
>
> instead of 
>
> C-c C-c Latex

Nowadays this is handled differently:

,----[ (info "(auctex)Commands") ]
|  -- Command: TeX-PDF-mode
|      (`C-c C-t C-p') This command toggles the PDF mode of AUCTeX, a
|      buffer-local minor mode.  You can customize `TeX-PDF-mode' to give
|      it a different default.  The default is used when AUCTeX does not
|      have additional clue about what a document might want.  This
|      option usually results in calling either PDFTeX or ordinary TeX.
`----

-- 
Ralf