From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: AucTex and master file and pdf mode Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:04:30 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87skbiznii.fsf@iki.fi> <4b21623e$0$7614$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <4b228650$0$7624$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260633948 23364 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2009 16:05:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:05:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 12 17:05:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NJUTU-0003Oo-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:05:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJUTU-00039B-Kn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:05:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJUT3-00037k-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJUSz-000360-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58404 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJUSz-00035x-8t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36608) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJUSv-0000R6-HG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:05:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NJUSo-00039a-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:04:58 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:04:58 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:04:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70622 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > Ralf Angeli writes: > >> * Richard Riley (2009-12-10) writes: >> >>> Ralf Angeli writes: >>> >>>> You probably have something in your LaTeX files which makes AUCTeX >>>> believe you do not want to use TeX PDF mode, like a `dvips' package >>>> option. >>> >>> Actually I did have >>> >>> \usepackage[usenames,dvips]{colortbl} >>> >>> but thats only so I can get the color names e.g BrickRed and Goldenrod. >>> >>> Is there another non dvips way to get the same constants? >> >> Have you considered looking into the manual of color.sty? It mentions >> the `dvipsnames' option. > > Possibly its me being confused by odd naming conventions. Again, > "dvipsnames". The "dvi" bit probably caused me to sweep past it. > > As a beginner to latex I find it horrifically difficult at times to > know where to look - but getting there. > And in case anyone else has the issue ( which google suggests is likely!) then I think the correct solution is to enable the pdftex driver constants like this:- ,---- | \usepackage[pdftex,usenames,dvipsnames]{colortbl} `---- cheers, r.