Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Can xetex be used in auctex?

[Ed C.]

O.K. Sorry. I got the auctex in zippbed bundle with w32 Emacs and date is:

AUCTeX-date "2007-01-23"

so I don't have the TeX-engine variable. It's not mentioned in tex.el 
and will probably be in next version.

Leo wrote:
> On 2009-04-06 21:22 +0100, Ed C. wrote:
> > I learn from the web that miktex 2.7 includes support for xetex but I
> > get nothing but many pages of errors when I try to compile the sample
> > code at:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xetex
> >
> > Also, if xelatex is a command line program why does xelatex --help
> > reveal that it doesn't need any arguments???
>
> The above questions probably should be asked in XeTeX mailing list.
>
> > Is it possible to run this tex variant from auctex?
>
> ,----[ C-h v TeX-engine RET ]
> | TeX-engine is a variable defined in `tex.el'.
> | Its value is default
> | 
> |   This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
> |   satisfies the predicate which is byte-compiled expression.
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Type of TeX engine to use.
> | The value should be one of the symbols `default' for plain old
> | TeX or PDFTeX, `xetex' for XeTeX and `omega' for Omega.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ed