Re: [AUCTeX] Suggestion about PDF generation

[David Kastrup]

Augusto Stoffel <address@hidden> writes:

> I had to tweak AUCTeX, so that PDF files are generated with dvips instead of
> pdflatex. It was necessary because neither xdvi nor pdflatex works right with
> pstricks.
>
> I think that there should be a straightforward way of choosing how
> PDF are generated. For example, instead of simply switching PDF mode
> on or off, it would be possible to choose among "Generate DVI",
> "Generate PDF with pdflatex", "Generate PDF with dvips", etc.
>
> I hope my suggestion is relevant.

TeX-PDF-mode could be made to take a prefix argument which would then
be used to set something like TeX-PDF-variant (since TeX-PDF-mode is a
proper minor mode, it should probably not be something different from
nil or t itself).  Or we create some other way of setting
TeX-PDF-variant.

I think something like this is on the TODO list, anyway, but there is
no timeframe for its implementation except "hopefully before 12.0".

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum