Re: [AUCTeX-devel] AUCTeX and Mac OS X

[David Kastrup]

Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:

> Mac OS X (not Darwin) offers a special font technology to allow
> XeTeX (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?
> site_id=nrsi&item_id=XeTeX&). What about adding to the Command menu
> a XeTeX/XeLaTeX option when on Mac OS X? Depending on the type of
> source file either XeTeX or XeLaTeX is displayed in the Command menu
> and the corresponding programme is invoked to tex the buffer? With
> the first e being ɘ, the LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED E at U+0258?

Since this appears to be an entirely different TeX distribution, a
separate file with predefinitions for TeX and LaTeX (similar to what
miktel.el and fptex.el provide), would seem like the saner course of
action.

It does not appear likely that people would use XeTeX and other TeX's
in tandem, right?  It is more like an either/or thing, and so there
does not appear to be much merit to have two menu entries of which one
will never get used.

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