Re: AucTex and master file and pdf mode

[Richard Riley]

Ralf Angeli <dev.null@caeruleus.net> writes:

> * Richard Riley (2009-12-10) writes:
>
>> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>>
>>> I believe this does it:
>>>
>>>     (setq-default TeX-PDF-mode t)
>>>
>>> Actually I have set the variable through customize interface and I do
>>> get PDFLaTeX mode by default.
>>
>> I tried this but when I inspect its value when I open either my include
>> or the master its nil. I dont have any file local variables that relate
>> to it either - unless its something auctex has hidden away in its
>> support files?
>
> You probably have something in your LaTeX files which makes AUCTeX
> believe you do not want to use TeX PDF mode, like a `dvips' package
> option.

Actually I did have

\usepackage[usenames,dvips]{colortbl}

but thats only so I can get the color names e.g BrickRed and Goldenrod.

Is there another non dvips way to get the same constants?