Re: integrating PDFLaTeX with emacs?

[Olive]

Olive wrote:
> Elvis Chen wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > sorry for what may be a trivial question, but please help if it is 
> > trivial
> > nonetheless :)
> >
> > I'm trying to get PDFLaTeX to play nicely with emacs.  I'm using Linux
> > Suse 9.1 with Emacs-21.3.  I would like to edit my ~/.gnu-emacs-custom
> > such that I can rebind the keys:
> >
> > Ctrl-c Ctrl-f to "pdflatex" my .tex file, and
> > Ctrl-c Ctrl-v to launch xpdf to view the resulting .pdf file
> >
> > can someone give me a hint please?
> >
> > From emacsWiki I have found what may work:
> > (setq tex-command "pdftex")
> > (defun tex-view ()
> >     (interactive)
> >     (tex-send-command "xpdf" (tex-append tex-print-file ".pdf")))
> >
> > but it doesn't.  my key-binding were still tied to latex/xdvi
> >
> > tia,
> >
> > ECC
>
> (set-variable (quote latex-run-command) "pdflatex")
> (set-variable (quote tex-dvi-view-command) "xpdf")
>
> You can also do this interactively by M-x customize-variable 
> latex-run-command and the same for tex-dvi-view-command
>
> This works for the standard mode of emacs. auctex has that functionality 
> built-in. Some people in this list find unbelievable to not use auctex. 
> I strongly disagree with this. Some people, as me, prefer to use the 
> standard TeX mode.
>
> Olive

Oups... to view the pdf; you must also change the extension of the "dvi" 
file. Put this in your .emacs


(defun tex-print (&optional alt)
  "Print the .dvi file made by \\[tex-region], \\[tex-buffer] or 
\\[tex-file].
Runs the shell command defined by `tex-dvi-print-command'.  If prefix 
argument
is provided, use the alternative command, `tex-alt-dvi-print-command'."
  (interactive "P")
  (let ((print-file-name-dvi (tex-append tex-print-file ".pdf"))
        test-name)
    (if (and (not (equal (current-buffer) tex-last-buffer-texed))
             (buffer-file-name)
             ;; Check that this buffer's printed file is up to date.
             (file-newer-than-file-p
              (setq test-name (tex-append (buffer-file-name) ".pdf"))
              (buffer-file-name)))
        (setq print-file-name-dvi test-name))
    (if (not (file-exists-p print-file-name-dvi))
        (error "No appropriate `.dvi' file could be found")
      (if (tex-shell-running)
          (tex-kill-job)
        (tex-start-shell))
      (tex-send-command
       (if alt tex-alt-dvi-print-command tex-dvi-print-command)
       print-file-name-dvi t))))