Re: automatic setting of mode

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.07.2009 um 16:56 schrieb ?manu*:

> Now I wonder If there is a similar command to get the following:
>
> 1. automatically issuing the command
> M-x tex-pdf
> which tells emacs to compile a LaTeX file with pdflatex.

I don't know what the simple built-in TeX-mode accepts, for AUCTeX  
you can put among its block of (file) local variables:

        %%% TeX-PDF-mode: t

> 2. automatically issuing the command
> M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system utf-8
> telling emacs that the file is encoded in utf8

LaTeX's Unicode or UTF-8 encoding support is very limited (maybe 1 %  
of the BMP) (and complicated to use). For a TeX file you would need  
to use % as comment character. In the file's header it would be:

        coding: utf-8;

and in the file's footer (example):

        %%% coding: utf-8-unix


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  Pete

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