Re: simple tex shell command

[Joel J. Adamson]

"benjamin.friedrich" <benjamin.friedrich@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I am a lisp newbie;
> I want to define a short-cut in my .emacs which automatically runs
> latex on my thesis,
> i.e. something like this
>
> (defun tex-thesis () "latex my thesis" "latex \\nonstopmode\input -src
> E:/thesis/thesis.tex")
> (global-set-key [f4] 'tex-thesis)
>
> How should this read as correct lisp code?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben

You could instead use AUCTeX, the Emacs mode for LaTeX (and other TeX)
editing.  No need to re-invent the wheel, or AUCTeX ;)  Then when you
are editing LaTeX, all you do is "C-cC-c" and you're good to go.

Joel

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