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Re: Auctex&Beamer recognising pdftex mode automatically
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Ralf Angeli |
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Re: Auctex&Beamer recognising pdftex mode automatically |
Date: |
Fri, 11 May 2007 20:08:14 +0200 |
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* Peter Dyballa (2007-05-11) writes:
> In a modern TeX installation latex is a sym-link, for example to
> pdftex, which itself is actually pdfetex. So latex produces PDF
> directly.
If you call `latex', it does not unless you fiddle with the input.
> You can make AUCTeX prefer pdfTeX by adding this customisation(s,
> enabling micro-typography for DVI output, too):
>
> '(TeX-PDF-mode t)
That activates PDF output.
> ; '(TeX-DVI-via-PDFTeX t)
That's obviously of no use since it is commented. It's additionally
useless if PDFTeX is the default engine.
> The third option is to add a file local variable:
>
> %%% TeX-command-default: "pdfelatex"
>
> which needs to de defined as a TeX command in AUCTeX.
The idea of TeX PDF mode is that `C-c C-c LaTeX RET' produces PDF
output without having to define a new command. What you are
suggesting is unnecessary.
--
Ralf