Re: [AUCTeX-devel] AUCTex customization

[Ralf Angeli]

* Paolo (2008-06-26) writes:

> I would change the AUCTex compile button's behaviour when a specific package
> is included in the source. The problem is that I use the axodraw package to
> make Feynman diagrams, but this package is (unfortunately) not compatible
> with pdftex, so I would have that in pdf-mode the button recognize if the
> axodraw package is included in the source and, if so, compile the tex
> differently to generate correctly a pdf (latex(dvi)->dvips->ps2pdf).
> I tried to find out how to do so, but I got lost.
>
> Is it possible? Could you help me and tell me how to do it?
> And if it is not possible to recognize the package presence, how can I add a
> function to do this 3 step compilation?

It's probably easier to disable TeX PDF mode for the document in
question and put the dvips and ps2pdf calls into `TeX-output-view-style'
along with a call to the viewer.  The variable allows you to specify a
package name which is used to activate an entry if the package is
present.

Alternatively you could add a dvips+ps2pdf command to `TeX-command-list'
and call it between running LaTeX and starting the viewer.

-- 
Ralf