Comments on: LaTeX Source Specials

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:36:42 +0000

Thanks.

I have installed the auctex package you suggested (the one for windows). It contains tex-mik.el and adding (require ‘tex-mik) to my _emacs improved the situation so that the suggested command was now “yap -1 main.tex”, but no lines numbers…

Eventually, I figured out that I need to turn on src-specials by adding to my _emacs
(setq TeX-source-specials-mode t)
This can be done also via the customize auctex pulldown menu (which is the way I figured it out).

Anyway, it now works quite well. THANKS!

By: Maverick Woo

Maverick Woo — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:38:17 +0000

I believe it’s due to the TeX-command-list customization. See if my comment at 17:35 (below) helps.

By: Maverick Woo

Maverick Woo — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:35:58 +0000

Basically you need to set your TeX-command-list correctly. Usually, in your .emacs, you do (require 'tex-site) and in tex-site.el you customize the AUC TeX global variables, such as TeX-command-list. In modern versions of AUC TeX (I use 11.11, not exactly newest), there is a tex-mik.el that provides a set of sensible defaults. You can just put (require 'tex-mik) at the end of your tex-site.el. Hope this helps.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:39:53 +0000

It’s very useful, but can you please say briefly how to activate/configure auctex? How do you tell it to use yap or acrobat? I tried C-c C-c and it “suggests” the command line “xdvi main.tex” (no yap and no line numbers).

By: Bernhard

Bernhard — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:04:40 +0000

Thanks, this works for me now. I do have AucTex installed but I didn’t have a command line for yap in the package. So I wrote it into my .emacs-file under custom-set-variables, which seems to be OK.

By: Maverick Woo

Maverick Woo — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:26:13 +0000

So far (and I mean the last 9 years) gnuclientw has been working very solidly for me.

Notice you really want gnuclientw instead of the “non-w” version. The “w version” will exit once the file has been passed to Emacs. The “non-w version” will wait until Emacs is closed. The latter is not what you want. (It’s similar to java vs javaw.)

By: Maverick Woo

Maverick Woo — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:22:17 +0000

If you use AUC TeX, then this is actually the formatted output of

“yap -1 -s%n%b %d”

Of course, these three variables only make sense in that package. If you really don’t want to use AUC TeX (but I really recommend using it), then you have to extract the line number %n (see function “what-line” on how to get it robustly) and the current file name %b (see “buffer-file-name”). As for the actual DVI filename %d, there is really no generic way since it is built from the value of the TeX-master variable in AUC TeX.

By: Bernhard

Bernhard — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:48:29 +0000

Another thing, I just played around with gnuserve and on my machine it seems that gnuclient is much more stable than gnuclientw. Very often, “gnuclientw filename.txt” would switch to the emacs window but not open the file “filename.txt”. This seems to be better with gnuclient. Let me know if you have similar experiences with that.

By: Bernhard

Bernhard — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:56:52 +0000

Thanks,

could you give me the command line to open yap from emacs? I mean the general one that is in your .emacs-file.
In other words, I might not always want to go to line 65, so what is the emacs-variable for the current line number and current tex-file?