Re: reading tex files

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

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> Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <Raimund.Kohl@nabuli.de> wrote: Gary Wessle 
>  wrote:
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> Do you mean "reading" as an equivalent to opening the file or do you
> mean it as "displaying the content without those commands and stuff"?
> The first case asks you to simply open the file and to ... read.  Yepp.
> The latter case asks for "texing" the *.tex file.  To do this there
> exist several ways ... so what is what you want to do?
> 
> ray
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> that latter, that is to be able to read without all the code \f \b
> things, like a lormal doc.

you seem to not be familiar with TeX/LaTeX ... well ... ok, first you
need to have the tetex packages installed.  On Debian you need the
following packages (use: apt-get install ...)

tetex-base (Basic library files of teTeX)
tetex-extra (Additional library files of teTeX)

(should you want to "dive" deeper into LaTeX you are going to need also:
tetex-doc - The documentation component of the Debian teTeX packages)

Now, given you are in dired within emacs (that looks like:

 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund   8549 2006-03-06 15:19 dvd-v1.tex)

you then (in this example) place the cursor on "dvd-v1.tex" and use
shell command "!" (you simply use the exclamation mark).  The
shell-command opens the minibuffer on the bottom of your screen and asks
for a command.  Here you type "latex" ... looks like:


Shell command: latex
               ^^^^^

that's all.  Now emacs runs LaTeX on the file.  After it's done with it,
still being in dired-mode, you type in the small "g" letter.  Now you
will see that emacs added some files.  With my example it would look
like:

 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund   1110 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.aux
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund  18276 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.dvi
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund  10572 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.log
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund    427 2006-04-04 22:45 dvd-v1.out
 -rw-r--r--   1 raimund raimund   8549 2006-03-06 15:19 dvd-v1.tex

This being so you now place the curser on the file dvd-v1.dvi.  Again
you use the shell command with the command "xdvi" ... this will look
like


Shell command: xdvi


and -voila- emacs opens the xdvi-viewer.  Here you can see the whole
document as it was meant to be seen - without all the LaTeX commands.

There are other ways to do this.  Since you seem to not be familiar with
TeX/LaTex I thought this beginners instruction would suffice.

Happy TeXing :-)

ray