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Re: [AUCTeX] TeX-output-view-style syntax question
From: |
Ralf Angeli |
Subject: |
Re: [AUCTeX] TeX-output-view-style syntax question |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:21:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
* Ralph Hendriks (2007-02-24) writes:
> I am trying to customize TeX-output-view-style, so that when I issue
> a view command the following sequence of events is executed:
> dvips -Ppdf -G0 example.dvi
> ps2pdf example.ps
> open example.pdf
>
> However, I find the syntax of TeX-output-view-style somewhat
> confusing, especially with regard to the filename placeholders. I saw
> in some examples on the web %o, %f, %dS, etc. Is there some manual
> what these placeholders mean?
No. But we might have to do this if I don't get my head around a
toolchain implementation soon.
> Is this AUCTeX-specific, or global to
> emacs?
Specific to AUCTeX.
> I need a placeholder for the filename without extension. How
> do I do that?
>
> The straightforward approach
> dvips -Ppdf -G0 %o && ps2pds %o.ps && open %o.pdf
> doesn't work well, because it obviously results in
> dvips -Ppdf -G0 example.dvi && ps2pds example.dvi.ps && open
> example.dvi.pdf
Simply change and extend the entry for dvips/gv (that's the one which
already refers to pstricks) with help of the entry for xpdf.
--
Ralf