Re: (la)tex viewer variables

[josh]

Okay, I posted a little too soon, sorry. I just read the section below
in (info "(auctex)Viewing"), which makes me feel a little more sane,
since I was sure I had already set this up, which I had (customization
variable at the end of my .emacs for TeX-output-view-style), and it
stopped working after upgrading to emacs 23 although I just hadn't
noticed yet, since I had latexed in a while.

However, this would seem to imply that the current documentation for the
soon to be deprecated variable is out of date, because it needs a
reference to using %vv as stated below. At the documention stands, it
doesn't work.

-j


****************************************************************
 Note also that the implementation described above replaces an older
one which was less flexible.  This old implementation works with the
variables `TeX-output-view-style' and `TeX-view-style' which are used
to associate file types and style options with viewers.  If desired you
can reactivate it by using the placeholder `%vv' for the View command
in `TeX-command-list'.  Note however, that it is bound to be removed
from AUCTeX once the new implementation proved to be satisfactory.  For
the time being, find a short description of the mentioned customization
options below.
********************************************************************



On 13/10/11 15:23, josh wrote:
> I am confused by the presence of the two variables
> 
> TeX-output-view-style
> 
> and
> 
> TeX-view-program-selection
> 
> 
> I wanted to set the pdf viewer to evince. I found my way to
> TeX-output-view-style. I read the description of the variable and it says:
> 
> **********************************
> If the first element (a regular expression) matches the output
> file extension, and the second element (a regular expression)
> matches the name of one of the style options, any occurrence of
> the string `%V' in a command in `TeX-command-list' will be
> replaced with the third element.
> **********************************
> 
> my TeX-output-view-style contains this:
> 
> ("^pdf$" "." "evince --page-label=%(outpage) %o")
> 
> so as far as I read this, if the file extension of the file to be viewed
> is pdf then evince should be called, but it didn't work.
> 
> After googling, I found my way to Tex-view-program-selection. Mine was
> set to:
> 
> (((output-dvi style-pstricks)
>   "dvips and gv")
>  (output-dvi "xdvi")
>  (output-pdf "xpdf")
>  (output-html "xdg-open"))
> 
> and after I changed it to
> 
> (((output-dvi style-pstricks)
>   "dvips and gv")
>  (output-dvi "xdvi")
>  (output-pdf "Evince")
>  (output-html "xdg-open"))
> 
> it worked. okay. but then what is TeX-output-view-style for?
> 
> -j