Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Using dvipdfmx for the path tex->dvi->pdf

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Ikumi,

2016-04-17 9:06 GMT+02:00 Ikumi Keita <address@hidden>:
> Hi Mosè,
>
>> Thanks for the test.  I installed the change, please have a look at
>> the changes to doc/auctex.texi and report if there are wrong
>> information about documents written in Japanese.
>
> Thank you for revising the document.  The part "most documents written
> in Japanese are compiled with @command{tex} or @command{latex}" may be a
> bit misleading because the command names of Japanese tex engines are not
> (la)tex but specific to each engine.  For example, the command names of
> ptex engine are p(la)tex.  See the following excerpt from tex-jp.el for
> detail:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> (setq TeX-engine-alist-builtin
>       (append TeX-engine-alist-builtin
>              '((ptex "pTeX" "ptex %(kanjiopt)" "platex %(kanjiopt)" "eptex")
>                (jtex "jTeX" "jtex" "jlatex" nil)
>                (uptex "upTeX" "euptex" "uplatex" "euptex"))))
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Instead of spelling out the explicit command names, how about mentioning
> that Japanese tex engines currently lack the ability of direct
> generation of pdf output?  E.g. "In addition, current Japanese tex
> engines cannot generate @acronym{PDF} directly so they rely on
> @acronym{DVI} to @acronym{PDF} converters.  Usually @command{dvipdfmx}
> command is used."

Thank you so much, change applied.

Bye,
Mosè