Re: [AUCTeX] what is wrong in my call to dvipdfmx with unicode filename?

[Joost Kremers]

On Sun, Jan 22 2017, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Tassilo
>
> Le 22 janv. 2017 à 11:00, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> > jfbu <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > Hi Jean-François,
> >
> > > Calling dvipdfmx éé.dvi from the command line has no issue
> >
> > I think the problem is that in your command, the dvi file is 
> > both
> > enclosed in double-quotes and additionally escaped with \.  So 
> > please
> > try with
> >
> >  ("PDF par dvipdfmx" "dvipdfmx %d" TeX-run-command nil t
> >   :help "Produit le pdf par dvipdfmx")
>
> Yes, that works,
>
> actually for dvips I had
>
> ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help 
> "Generate PostScript file")
>
> which was official set-up (at least at the time when I
> froze Tex-command-list with my additions, I should check
> more often if "upstream" has evolved)

There's actually a better way to handle that situation: use 
`add-to-list` in your init file. E.g., this is what I do:

```
(with-eval-after-load 'tex
   ;; add a "Crop PDF" entry to TeX-command-list
   (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
                '("Crop PDF" "pdfcrop %P" TeX-run-command nil t 
                :help "Crop pdf file")
                'append)

   ;; add a pdf expander to TeX-expand-list
   (add-to-list 'TeX-expand-list '("%P" file "pdf" t) 'append))
```

That way, my changes to `TeX-command-list` and `TeX-expand-list` 
are automatically added to whatever value AUCTeX provides as 
default.

Actually, I just noticed that the default value of 
`TeX-expand-list` is nil, because the AUCTeX-provided expanders 
are in `TeX-expand-list-default` and `Tex-expand-list` is solely 
for the user. So I could use a simple setq for this one. But 
`add-to-list` is stil useful for `TeX-command-list`.

BTW, if anyone knows of a built-in expander for the pdf output 
file, I'm all ears.



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