[AUCTeX] Adding commands to Command menu

[David Scott]

I have recently moved over from XEmacs to Emacs on a Windows XP.
I am using the prepared installation from Vincent Goulet available at 
http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/

This uses Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) and AUCTeX 11.84.
It also includes the latest ESS and thus supplies pretty much all my 
needs.

I had modified by previous XEmacs installation by adding some items to the 
Command menu using:

(eval-after-load "tex"
  '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
                '("ps2pdf" "ps2pdf12  %s.ps %s.pdf" TeX-run-command t t) 
t))


(eval-after-load "tex"
  '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
                '("gsview" "start %s.ps" TeX-run-shell t t) t))

The first of these works but the second simply creates cmd.exe window and 
fails to run gsview on the postscript file.

I am having a similar problem when I try and use Print when I have a 
postscript file or when I uses pdfTeX and then try and view the file: just 
the cmd.exe window appears but the viewer doesn't fire up.

I would also like to be able to use gsview to view pdf files rather than 
acrobat, but keep Acrobat Reader as my default viewer.

I tried

(eval-after-load "tex"
  '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
                '("gsviewpdf" "gsview32 %s.pdf" TeX-run-shell t t) t))

for this which gave me two problems: in the minibuffer I got

gsviewpdf command: gsview32 "myfile".pdf

which just gave an error. If I edited the command in the minibuffer to

gsview32 "myfile.pdf"

gsview fired up ok but I could no longer use Emacs.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

David Scott

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                The University of Auckland, PB 92019
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