Re: xelatex menu option does not show

[Tariq]

On Apr 26, 4:45 pm, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Tariq <tariq.per...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi Everyone,
>
> > I have this code in my .emacs file and it worked very well until a few
> > days ago. It was kindly given to me on this forum. With this code,
> > when a buffer with fontspec package is opened, I used to see an option
> > XeLaTeX under the Command menu. Today, however, I do not see such
> > option. I have opened and closed Emacs just to make sure.
>
> > My computer had crashed yesterday when I was working in Emacs but I
> > did not see any other issue with Emacs performance. I have been
> > working on other LaTeX files since reboot without any apparent
> > problems. Still, something is not right. Could the computer crash have
> > done some damage to my Emacs? How can I fix it? BTW, I am running
> > Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> > Thanks for your help. Regards,
>
> > Tariq
>
> > ;;Code from .emacs
>
> > ;;set xetex mode in tex/latex
> > (defun my-latex-mode-hook ()
> >       (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
> >                    '("XeLaTeX" "%`xelatex%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
> > t))
> >       (setq TeX-command-default
> >             (save-excursion
> >               (save-restriction
> >                 (widen)
> >                 (goto-char (point-min))
> >                 (let ((re (concat "^\\s-*\\\\usepackage\\(?:\\[.*\\]\
> > \)?"
> >                                   "{.*\\<\\(?:font\\|math\\)spec\
> > \>.*}")))
> >                   (if (re-search-forward re 3000 t)
> >                       "XeLaTeX"
> >                     "LaTeX"))))))
> > ;;
>
> I think you simply forgot to
>
> (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'my-latex-mode-hook)
>
> .
>
> -ap

Hi Andreas

Strange that I did not do anything to the code and it was working
until I opened a xelatex file in Emacs today.

Where do I add that line in the code? Does it come after the code I
posted?

Thanks a lot for your help. Regards,

Tariq