Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.83; No way to choose a reasonable viewer for output

[David Kastrup]

Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 17.08.2006 um 20:34 schrieb David Kastrup:
>
>> Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Am 17.08.2006 um 18:24 schrieb David Kastrup:
>>>
>>>> Please read what you wrote above, right below "Hello!".
>>>
>>> The "built-in viewer name," an obvious synonym for something pre-
>>> defined to be used as an application to display some output from TeX
>>> (is my writing so bad?). And there does not seem to be an option to
>>> customise the inconvenient setting.
>>
>> Again: have you looked at the info manual page which I pointed out?
>> It spells out the options to customize.
>>
>
> Yes. It states this incorrect opinion:
>
>          For PDF output, forward search is availabe when using the pdfsync
>       LaTeX package and xpdf as PDF viewer.  With the pdfsync package forward
>       search does not rely on source specials.  Therefore you don't have to
>       bother about the provisions for source specials explained above.  If
>       document parsing is enabled, the functionality is usable immediately,
>       e.g. by typing `C-c C-v' (`TeX-view') which will open the viewer or
>       bring it to front if it is already opened and display the output page
>       corresponding to the position of point in the source file.
>
> Pdfsync works with TeXShop, TeXniscope, and iTeXMac. I never heard
> of anything else ...

I am afraid that "I never heard of anything else" is not sufficient to
count as a bug.  If you find that the advertised functionality does
not work, please report it.

> So, in the end the bug I reported continues to exist: there is now
> way to customise the external viewer application for TeX output
> files. Is this so hard to admit?

Please read the given manual page from the top.  It states:

7.2.1 Starting viewers and customizing their invokation
-------------------------------------------------------

[...]

   The information about which file types and style options are
associated with which viewers and options for them is stored in the
variables `TeX-output-view-style' and `TeX-view-style'.

[...]

 -- User Option: TeX-output-view-style
     List of output file extensions, style options and view options.

 -- User Option: TeX-view-style
     List of style options and view options.  This is the predecessor of
     `TeX-output-view-style' which does not allow the specification of
     output file extensions.  It is used as a fallback in case none of
     the alternatives specified in `TeX-output-view-style' match.  In
     case none of the entries in `TeX-view-style' match either, no
     suggestion for a viewer will be made.

[...]

So I am at a loss what you expect to gain by me "admitting" that there
is no way to customize the viewers.  The section 7.2.1 is even _named_
"Starting viewers and customizing their invokation" (ok, "invokation"
is a spelling error which I'll fix, but you should be able to guess
what it means), and then you quote some passage from section 7.2.2
instead and claim that you don't believe it because you have not heard
such a thing previously.

And it is not like the relevant options would not be mentioned several
times and even highlighted as user options.

I don't get it.  Really.  And I readily admit _that_.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum