From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier " Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with Latex / compile dvi postscript Date: 05 Dec 2002 10:00:07 -0500 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5lhedslde0.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <8465u866o0.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039101525 11603 80.91.224.249 (5 Dec 2002 15:18:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:18:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Jxlt-000307-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:18:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Jxeh-0007FS-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:11:11 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.ycc.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 5 Dec 2002 10:00:07 -0500, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107759 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4310 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4310 >>> if anybody is interested in a patch that allows the usage of pdflatex >>> and acrobat reader (i.E) really integrated with automatic detection of >>> the presence of more up-to-date .pdf-files come back to me. >> >> Can you get AR to behave the way xdvi does, i.e. reload the new output >> file automatically when it receives focus, or like xpdf, on hitting 'r' >> or turning a page? That would be useful! It would probably be an afternoon hack if we had the source. But why bother since we can use gv or xpdf instead. > But this fails if AR has more than one file open. AR is not too bad when reading someone else's PDF but when you're developing your own, its UI sucks rocks. > Actually, I rather liked it, but now I've gone back to xdvi because > of source specials and forward/backward search. I miss the > nicely-looking anti-aliasing, though. I've started to like ActiveDVI, especially together with WhyzzyTeX. It also supports colors. The only problem is that it didn't support all the font-tricks of LaTeX last time I tried it. Stefan