simple tex shell command

simple tex shell command

[benjamin.friedrich]

Dear all,

I am a lisp newbie;
I want to define a short-cut in my .emacs which automatically runs
latex on my thesis,
i.e. something like this

(defun tex-thesis () "latex my thesis" "latex \\nonstopmode\input -src
E:/thesis/thesis.tex")
(global-set-key [f4] 'tex-thesis)

How should this read as correct lisp code?

Thanks,
Ben

P.S.
I tried
(setq tex-main-file "E:/ben/thesis/thesis.tex")
but then c-c c-f 'latex-file will always latex the thesis, even if I
happen
to work on a tex-file that does not belong to the thesis.

Re: simple tex shell command

[Xah]

To run a shell command in elisp, you need, e.g.

(shell-command command &optional output-buffer error-buffer)
or
(setq sh-output
          (shell-command-to-string (concat cmd-name " " img-file-
path)))

for a full code example, see the xGetDimention in

Elisp Lesson: Writing image-linkify Function
http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_image_tag.html

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄

On Jun 10, 5:40 am, "benjamin.friedrich"
<benjamin.friedr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a lisp newbie;
> I want to define a short-cut in my .emacs which automatically runs
> latex on my thesis,
> i.e. something like this
>
> (defun tex-thesis () "latex my thesis" "latex \\nonstopmode\input -src
> E:/thesis/thesis.tex")
> (global-set-key [f4] 'tex-thesis)
>
> How should this read as correct lisp code?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> P.S.
> I tried
> (setq tex-main-file "E:/ben/thesis/thesis.tex")
> but then c-c c-f 'latex-file will always latex the thesis, even if I
> happen
> to work on a tex-file that does not belong to the thesis.

Re: simple tex shell command

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.06.2008 um 14:40 schrieb benjamin.friedrich:

> I want to define a short-cut in my .emacs which automatically runs
> latex on my thesis,

AUCTeX offers C-c C-c.

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

With Capitalism man exploits man. With communism it's the exact  
opposite.

Re: simple tex shell command

[Joel J. Adamson]

"benjamin.friedrich" <benjamin.friedrich@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I am a lisp newbie;
> I want to define a short-cut in my .emacs which automatically runs
> latex on my thesis,
> i.e. something like this
>
> (defun tex-thesis () "latex my thesis" "latex \\nonstopmode\input -src
> E:/thesis/thesis.tex")
> (global-set-key [f4] 'tex-thesis)
>
> How should this read as correct lisp code?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben

You could instead use AUCTeX, the Emacs mode for LaTeX (and other TeX)
editing.  No need to re-invent the wheel, or AUCTeX ;)  Then when you
are editing LaTeX, all you do is "C-cC-c" and you're good to go.

Joel

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