cannot have two processes for latex document

cannot have two processes for latex document

[Alain Muls]

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Hi

I edit/compile latex documents in Emacs. I would like to add a command 
to view the pdf output using kpdf. I can run the command kpdf file.pdf, 
but when I change something in the editor and want to recompile, I have 
to close kpdf. I would like to change this so that kpdf can remain open.

kr/Alain

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Re: cannot have two processes for latex document

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.08.2007 um 22:45 schrieb Alain Muls:

>  I can run the command kpdf file.pdf, but when I change something  
> in the editor and want to recompile, I have to close kpdf. I would  
> like to change this so that kpdf can remain open.

Can't you make it to automatically reload the PDF file when it has  
changed? Have you looked for applications that can do this? (I only  
know of Mac OS X applications that can do that, xpdf needs an ``r´´  
as does gv.)

AUCTeX or GNU Emacs can't communicate in a magical way with X  
clients. If some X client does not support a particular function,  
AUCTeX or GNU Emacs can't teach it. The viewer application (for DVI,  
PS, or PDF) are stand-alone applications that get launched once. Then  
they stand alone on the screen and either they do their job  
automatically or the user does his or her job automatically.

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Re: cannot have two processes for latex document

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Aug 15 2007, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Can't you make it to automatically reload the PDF file when it has changed?
> Have you looked for applications that can do this? (I only  know of Mac OS X
> applications that can do that, xpdf needs an ``r´´  as does gv.)

,----[ xpdf(1) ]
| 	Reload
| 		Reload  the  current PDF  file.   Note  that Xpdf  will
| 		reload  the file  automatically  (on a  page change  or
| 		redraw) if it has changed since it was last loaded.
`----

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Re: cannot have two processes for latex document

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:45:25PM +0200, Alain Muls wrote:
> I edit/compile latex documents in Emacs. I would like to add a command to 
> view the pdf output using kpdf. I can run the command kpdf file.pdf, but 
> when I change something in the editor and want to recompile, I have to 
> close kpdf. I would like to change this so that kpdf can remain open.

I don't know about kpdf, but you can do this (and more) with xpdf.
Start xpdf like this:

  $ xpdf -remote key file.pdf

Then compile your file like this:

  $ pdflatex file.tex && xpdf -remote key -raise -reload

You don't even need to press M-TAB (or whatever you use to switch
windows)!

HTH,
Oleg

Re: cannot have two processes for latex document

[Joel J. Adamson]

Alain Muls <alain.muls@telenet.be> writes:

> Hi

Hello

>
> I edit/compile latex documents in Emacs. I would like to add a command
> to view the pdf output using kpdf. I can run the command kpdf
> file.pdf, but when I change something in the editor and want to
> recompile, I have to close kpdf. I would like to change this so that
> kpdf can remain open.

Alain, I do the same thing.  I am constantly running kpdf and kdvi
after compiling LaTeX; are you using AUCTeX?  I strongly recommend
it.  If you are, you can go into Customize and change the viewer
commands.  This does everything asynchronously, so that then you can
continue with your Emacsing.

Joel

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