Re: xelatex menu option does not show

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Tariq <tariq.perwez@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