Re: xelatex menu option does not show

[Tariq <tariq.perwez@gmail.com>]

On Apr 26, 4:45 pm, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Tariq <tariq.per...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi Everyone,
>
> > I have this code in my .emacs file and it worked very well until a few
> > days ago. It was kindly given to me on this forum. With this code,
> > when a buffer with fontspec package is opened, I used to see an option
> > XeLaTeX under the Command menu. Today, however, I do not see such
> > option. I have opened and closed Emacs just to make sure.
>
> > My computer had crashed yesterday when I was working in Emacs but I
> > did not see any other issue with Emacs performance. I have been
> > working on other LaTeX files since reboot without any apparent
> > problems. Still, something is not right. Could the computer crash have
> > done some damage to my Emacs? How can I fix it? BTW, I am running
> > Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> > Thanks for your help. Regards,
>
> > Tariq
>
> > ;;Code from .emacs
>
> > ;;set xetex mode in tex/latex
> > (defun my-latex-mode-hook ()
> >       (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
> >                    '("XeLaTeX" "%`xelatex%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
> > t))
> >       (setq TeX-command-default
> >             (save-excursion
> >               (save-restriction
> >                 (widen)
> >                 (goto-char (point-min))
> >                 (let ((re (concat "^\\s-*\\\\usepackage\\(?:\\[.*\\]\
> > \)?"
> >                                   "{.*\\<\\(?:font\\|math\\)spec\
> > \>.*}")))
> >                   (if (re-search-forward re 3000 t)
> >                       "XeLaTeX"
> >                     "LaTeX"))))))
> > ;;
>
> I think you simply forgot to
>
> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'my-latex-mode-hook)
>
> .
>
> -ap

Here is the code I have now in .emacs. However, the problem is only
partly solved; that is, the option XeLaTeX does show up in the Command
menu but when I do C-c C-c, I still get this in the minibuffer:

Command: (default LaTeX)

As I understand the matter, this should be:

Command: (default XeLaTeX)

What is missing? I would appreciate any help.

Tariq


(I must add that previously, C-c C-c used to give me the expected
default XeLaTeX  as default in the minibuffer.)

;; Part of the code snippet in .emacs
;;set xetex mode in tex/latex
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook #'my-latex-mode-hook) ;; removal of # does
not do any good/harm (why?)
(defun my-latex-mode-hook ()
      (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
                   '("XeLaTeX" "%`xelatex%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
t))
      (setq TeX-command-default
            (save-excursion
              (save-restriction
                (widen)
                (goto-char (point-min))
                (let ((re (concat "^\\s-*\\\\usepackage\\(?:\\[.*\\]\
\)?"
                                  "{.*\\<\\(?:font\\|math\\)spec\
\>.*}")))
                  (if (re-search-forward re 3000 t)
                      "XeLaTeX"
                    "LaTeX"))))))
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