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Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots |
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Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:05:34 +0200 |
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>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:
> + . pdftexi2dvi is a new wrapper to `texi2dvi --pdf', equal to texi2pdf,
> + for sake of AUC-TeX which prepends `pdf' to the compilation command
> + when requested to produce PDF.
> Seems ugly. We already have one pointless wrapper, texi2pdf. Do we
> really need to add another? Is it not feasible for auctex to add an if
> statement to avoid this? Or how about simply making an alias for
> yourself, since I rather suspect that the intersection of auctex and
> texi2dvi users is a single person :)?
I'm not that sure! But I'm definitely the first to finally is able to
use both texi2dvi and AUC-TeX simultaneously (before I used AUC-TeX
only for editing, and texi2dvi to compile, also AUC-TeX is a much
better environment to compile than texi2dvi and the shell).
So I guess some more people are likely to make the move if it proves
useful. And indeed texi2dvi does provide some services that AUC-TeX
does not support. I made this NEWS addition precisely to prompt
AUC-TeX users.
I agree pdftexi2dvi is bad, but that's really how AUC-TeX works --
currently. But it will be zillions of years before all the
installations of AUC-TeX have a support for a different means to
request PDF. And after all, there's a de facto standard here!
> + -d, --depot=DIR specify where the tidy compilation is performed.
> I don't especially like the term `depot', since I associate it with
> source code repositories. How about simply --tidy-dir, or --directory
> if there's a chance it will sometime be used in other modes?
I didn't like it either, but before it was -w, --where ;) I don't
like --tidy-dir, too long, and neither --directory, too meaningless.
Actually this directory behaves very much like a depot. And I doubt
people will believe texi2dvi provides VCS services ;)
There are some more issues to improve the support of AUC-TeX. In
particular it wants to see the .aux file, which is troublesome with
--tidy.
- [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Akim Demaille, 2005/09/19
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Karl Berry, 2005/09/19
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Karl Berry, 2005/09/20
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Akim Demaille, 2005/09/21
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Karl Berry, 2005/09/21
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Akim Demaille, 2005/09/22
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Karl Berry, 2005/09/22
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Akim Demaille, 2005/09/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Karl Berry, 2005/09/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depots, Akim Demaille, 2005/09/29
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depot, Karl Berry, 2005/09/29
- Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi: AUC-TeX and depot, Akim Demaille, 2005/09/30