Re: AucTeX 11.83 and MikTeX 2.5

[Robert McDonald <r-mcdonald@northwestern.edu>]

Reiner Steib wrote:
> I'd be surprised if yap really can handle all pstricks and psfrag
> tricks.  (But I don't use Windows and so i don't know yap.)

I think your instinct is correct: I believe that yap calls dvips as a 
helper program (there is a "render method" menu item, and one choice is 
dvips). However it is done, Yap can now display files with postscript 
specials and also perform inverse search on them. I'm impressed.

> Customize `TeX-output-view-style'.  In other words, delete the
> "^pstricks$\\|^pst-\\|^psfrag$" entry there.
> 

Well, I'm a nitwit. I had tried deleting that entry but I forgot to 
byte-compile the file afterwards, so the change had no effect.

In case this is of interest to anyone else, I have edited one entry and 
added one entry to tex-mik.el to make auctex 11.83 work better with 
MikTeX 2.5. (This is trial and error, so suggestions and corrections are 
welcome.):

; new command to compile with source specials
(unless (get 'LaTeX-command 'saved-value)
   (setq LaTeX-command
         "latex -src-specials -interaction=nonstopmode %t"))

; changed last line to have yap open at current cursor location.
(unless (get 'TeX-view-style 'saved-value)
   (setq TeX-view-style '(("^epsf$" "start %f")
			 ("." "yap -1 -s%n%b %d"))))


Thanks for your help Reiner!

Bob