Re: File variables in tex-site.el

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Ulrich Dirr" <ud@art-satz.de> writes:

> I'm wondering what all the file variables mean (%t, %f, %s, etc.).
> I would like to customize the list shown below. Where can I find an
> explanation what variables exist and what's their meaning?
> 
> ;; The fpTeX commands.
> (setq TeX-command-list
>   (list (list "TeX" "tex \\nonstopmode\\input %t" 'TeX-run-TeX nil t)
>  (list "LaTeX" "%l \\nonstopmode\\input{%t}" 'TeX-run-LaTeX nil t)
>  (list "LaTeX PDF" "pdflatex \\nonstopmode\\input{%t}" 'TeX-run-LaTeX
> nil t)
>  (list "eLaTeX PDF" "pdfelatex \\nonstopmode\\input{%t}" 'TeX-run-LaTeX
> nil t)
>  (list "View" "%v" 'TeX-run-command t nil)
>  (list "View PS" "gsview32 %f" 'TeX-run-command t nil)
>  (list "View PDF" "start %s.pdf" 'TeX-run-command t nil)
>  (list "Print" "dvips %d" 'TeX-run-command t nil)
>  (list "File" "dvips %d -o %f " 'TeX-run-command t nil)
>  (list "BibTeX" "bibtex %s" 'TeX-run-BibTeX nil nil)
>  (list "Index" "makeindex %s" 'TeX-run-command nil t)
>  (list "Check" "lacheck %s" 'TeX-run-compile nil t)
>  (list "Spell" "<ignored>" 'TeX-run-ispell-on-document nil nil)
>  (list "Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" 'TeX-run-compile nil t)
>  (list "AmSTeX" "amstex \\nonstopmode\\input{%t}" 'TeX-run-TeX nil t)
>  (list "Other" "" 'TeX-run-command t t)))

Oh shit.  _That's_ the reason why your stuff does not work
intuitively with PDFLaTeX now.  Please take a look at the settings of
this variable in tex.el, change fptex.el accordingly and submit a
patch.  I am afraid that fptex.el has fallen behind times.  Perhaps
one should let the code in fptex.el rather just modify those settings
in tex.el that are relevant.  We need an fptex.el maintainer,
obviously.  I don't think that any of the current developers of
AUCTeX actually uses Windows.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum