From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to compile/view document in LaTex mode?? Date: 30 Mar 2005 15:52:09 +0100 Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112195062 22224 80.91.229.2 (30 Mar 2005 15:04:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 17:04:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGej0-0002HC-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:03:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGezW-00069L-Ew for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:20:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1112194329 27544 130.88.198.228 (30 Mar 2005 14:52:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:52:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129747 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25300 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25300 >>>>> "JS" == JS 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