Re: cannot have two processes for latex document

[Joel J. Adamson]

Alain Muls <alain.muls@telenet.be> writes:

> Hi

Hello

>
> I edit/compile latex documents in Emacs. I would like to add a command
> to view the pdf output using kpdf. I can run the command kpdf
> file.pdf, but when I change something in the editor and want to
> recompile, I have to close kpdf. I would like to change this so that
> kpdf can remain open.

Alain, I do the same thing.  I am constantly running kpdf and kdvi
after compiling LaTeX; are you using AUCTeX?  I strongly recommend
it.  If you are, you can go into Customize and change the viewer
commands.  This does everything asynchronously, so that then you can
continue with your Emacsing.

Joel

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