Re: File variables in tex-site.el

[David Kastrup]

"Ulrich Dirr" <ud@art-satz.de> writes:

> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> >>>>>> "Ulrich Dirr" <ud@art-satz.de> (UD) wrote:
> >
> >> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> >>> Actually the View command itself determines what kind of file was
> >>> produced and can be parameterized to do the proper thing to open the
> >>> file.
> >
> >> Could you please give me some concrete hints ('... can be
> >> parameterized')?
> >
> > (defcustom TeX-output-view-style
> >   '(("^dvi$" ("^a5$" "^landscape$") "xdvi \"%d\" -paper a5r -s 4")
> >     ("^dvi$" "^a5$" "xdvi \"%d\" -paper a5")
> >     ("^dvi$" ("^landscape$" "^pstricks$\\|^psfrag$")
> >                         "dvips -t landscape -f \"%d\" | gv")
> >     ("^dvi$" "^landscape$" "xdvi \"%d\" -paper a4r -s 4")
> >     ("^dvi$" "^pstricks$\\|^psfrag$" "dvips -f \"%d\" | gv")
> >     ("^dvi$" "." "xdvi \"%d\"")
> >     ("^pdf$" "^landscape$" "xpdf -papertype a4r \"%o\"")
> >     ("^pdf$" "." "xpdf \"%o\"")
> >     ("^html?$" "." "netscape \"%o\""))
> >   "List of output file extensions and view options.
> >
> 
> Ah, ok I understand. One final stupid question. When I look at tex.el it
> always seems that parenthesis aren't balanced (like above I would add a
> third closing parenthesis).

Not so impatient, youg whippersnapper.  First let us finish the
documentation string.  Then let us declare the type and other
customiziation parameters of the customized variable.  And then we
will be ready for closing the parenthesis on that one.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum