Re: [AUCTeX] Forcing "View" to run xdvi.

[gerald . jean]

Hello,

with the help of Svern it was relatively easy to solve the second problem,
thanks Svern.

The first problem was a little trickier to solve.  I am working on a Linux
server on which I don't have administrative rights, consequently I
installed Texlive on a group partition where my team collegues have access.
After running xdvi in a terminal, as suggested by Svern, I noticed that the
fonts where re-created each time xdvi was started, hence the long starting
time.

After setting debugging switches for xdvi I saw that many directories were
searched by Kpathsea but NOT the one where the fonts were re-created each
time xdvi was runned? The fonts were created in ~/.texlive2008/texmf-var.
I manually added this path to the environment variable TEXMFLOCAL.  Then
starting xdvi from a terminal was almost instantaneous.  I closed Emacs,
restarted it and ran xdvi through Auctex, but again it took a very long
time to start?  Poking around I found that the Emacs variable
"process-environment" didn't show my upgraded TEXMFLOCAL.  I upgraded
TEXMFLOCAL in my .bash_profile, closed Emacs, closed my session, opened a
new session, restarted Emacs and this time the Emacs variable
"process-environment" showed the proper value and consequently running xdvi
through Auctex it started instantaneously.  Not a simple process, to say
the least!!!

I realize that ~/.texlive2008/texmf-var is probably not the best place to
store the newly created fonts.  When my co-workers will use Texlive,
through Emacs or otherwise, they will likely run in the same problems.  Is
there a better way?

A nive weekend to all,

Gérald Jean
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address@hidden a écrit sur 2009/04/23 11:09:35
:

> Hello
>
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > 1.-- The first time xdvi starts it is very slow, 30 sec. or more.  If I
> > leave it open between runs and use source specials it is then very fast
and
> > I find it very very convenient to go back and forth between the source
and
> > its display.  Why is it so slow the first time it starts?
>
> I can think of two possibilities:
>
> 1. It is a fresh installation, so xdvi has to produce the fonts before
>    it can display anything. Does it also happen if you re-open the very
>    same file?
>
> 2. Something with the TeX-installation is wrong so that xdvi doesn't find
>    the already created fonts and has to build them anew. I have seen
>    such a thing some years ago on an Ubuntu system.
>
> You can check if font-crating is really the problem if you open the
> dvi-file in a shell and watch what happens:
>
> $ xdvi foo.dvi
>
> > 2.-- When I include graphics via EPS files in my documents then "View"
> > wants to be nice to me and it runs dvips and pipes its output to ggv.
But
> > this is not what I want and I find xdvi much more convenient when
writing a
> > document, it makes it so much easier to go back and forht to correct
> > errors.  How can I force "View" to run xdvi with all the necessary
> > parameters to allow forward and inverse search, yes I have "source
> > specials" enabled?
>
> Insert the following line to the local variables near the end of your
> tex-file and re-open the file again:
>
> %%% TeX-output-view-style: (("^dvi$" "." "xdvi -s 4 -watchfile 1 %dS
%d"))
>
> Maybe Emacs asks you if you really want to evaluate the line. Just say
> yes. The '-s 4' is the initial zoom-factor, you can set it to another
> value.
>
> Greetings
>
> Sven
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