[macemacsjp-english 879] Re: auctex/pdf

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Roussanka Loukanova rlouk****@stp*****
Sun Feb 4 19:57:47 JST 2007


On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 03.02.2007 um 22:37 schrieb Seiji Zenitani:
>
>> Regarding the auctex/pdf issue, does everyone become happier if I put
>> the below line into /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-
>> lisp/auctex/tex.el(elc)?
>>
>>        "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper a5r -s 0 %d")
>>       ("^dvi$" ,(concat "^" (regexp-opt '("a5paper" "a5comb")) "$")
>>        "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper a5 %d")
>> +    ("^pdf$" "." "open -a Preview.app %o")
>>       ("^pdf$" "." "xpdf -remote %s -raise %o %(outpage)")
>>       ("^html?$" "." "netscape %o"))
>>     "List of output file extensions and view options.
>
>
> Not me (but this does not matter as I am not using the built-in
> AUCTeX). I think it's more reasonable to use the script texdoc as
> viewer for all output formats that do not address "source specials"
> or that are not meant to meat a particular paper format (because xdvi
> cannot see which size and orientation a TeX document has in DVI which
> does not record this information ? and so Mac OS X "DVI" viewers like
> TeXShop or TeXniscope also fail to convert them to PDF appropriately).
>
> The reason: texdoc is a valuable script to find (texdoc -l <name>) or
> to view (texdoc <name>) TeX documentation, which can come in DVI, PS,
> PDF, HTML, TXT format. Once texdoc has been customised to one's
> preferences: why do this boring thing again in AUCTeX?! Isn't it more
> reasonable to re-use the splendid texdoc? Well, I do ...

But, at least for some of us, and until someone makes a better texdoc, 
AUCTeX/Emacs settings or customizations are the only way to use Preview 
(or anything else) instead of xpdf and xdvi.

Roussanka

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>
>   Pete
>
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