I am using auctex 11.14 with emacs and LaTeX.  The default program run
with "TeX-command-master" is LaTeX.  pdflatex is available as a menu item
but it is very awkward to get to it with the keyboard.

The auctex manual describes keys to change this, e.g. C-c C-t C-p but
these are not installed or not working on my auctex.

Thanks, Henry Harpending

On Sat, Mar 05 2005, Henry Harpending wrote:

> I am using auctex 11.14 with emacs and LaTeX.  The default program run
> with "TeX-command-master" is LaTeX.  pdflatex is available as a menu item
> but it is very awkward to get to it with the keyboard.
>
> The auctex manual describes keys to change this, e.g. C-c C-t C-p but
> these are not installed or not working on my auctex.

Upgrade to AUCTeX 11.55 and look at the variable and function
`TeX-PDF-mode':

,----[ C-h v TeX-PDF-mode RET ]
| TeX-PDF-mode's value is nil
| Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
| 
| Non-nil if Tex-Pdf mode is enabled.
| Use the command `TeX-PDF-mode' to change this variable.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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Henry Harpending <harpend@harpend.dsl.xmission.com> writes:

> I am using auctex 11.14 with emacs and LaTeX.  The default program
> run with "TeX-command-master" is LaTeX.  pdflatex is available as a
> menu item but it is very awkward to get to it with the keyboard.
>
> The auctex manual describes keys to change this, e.g. C-c C-t C-p
> but these are not installed or not working on my auctex.

"The AUCTeX manual" of 11.14 will certainly not describe any such
thing.  If you want to have this feature, install the AUCTeX version
corresponding to the manual you are reading.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 08:27:51 -0700, Henry Harpending
<harpend@harpend.dsl.xmission.com> said:
> I am using auctex 11.14 with emacs and LaTeX.  The default program run
> with "TeX-command-master" is LaTeX.  pdflatex is available as a menu item
> but it is very awkward to get to it with the keyboard.

Try changing the Style field in Options -> Customize Emacs -> Browser
Customization Groups -> Wp -> AUCTeX -> Tex Command -> LaTeX Command
Style to "pdflatex"; then click on "Save for Future Sessions".  C-c C-c
in LaTeX should then by default run pdflatex on your source.

Chris Menzel

Chris Menzel <cmenzel@remove-this.tamu.edu> writes:

> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 08:27:51 -0700, Henry Harpending
> <harpend@harpend.dsl.xmission.com> said:
>> I am using auctex 11.14 with emacs and LaTeX.  The default program run
>> with "TeX-command-master" is LaTeX.  pdflatex is available as a menu item
>> but it is very awkward to get to it with the keyboard.
>
> Try changing the Style field in Options -> Customize Emacs ->
> Browser Customization Groups -> Wp -> AUCTeX -> Tex Command -> LaTeX
> Command Style to "pdflatex"; then click on "Save for Future
> Sessions".  C-c C-c in LaTeX should then by default run pdflatex on
> your source.

And then you will have to customize your viewer as well, and the
detection when to run LaTeX and when to run the viewer will fail (as
no DVI file gets generated) and so forth and so on.

Just upgrade your AUCTeX dinosaur to a current version, and PDFLaTeX
is supported perfectly well.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:40:06 +0100, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> said:
> Chris Menzel <cmenzel@remove-this.tamu.edu> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 08:27:51 -0700, Henry Harpending
>> <harpend@harpend.dsl.xmission.com> said:
>>> I am using auctex 11.14 with emacs and LaTeX.  The default program run
>>> with "TeX-command-master" is LaTeX.  pdflatex is available as a menu item
>>> but it is very awkward to get to it with the keyboard.
>>
>> Try changing the Style field in Options -> Customize Emacs ->
>> Browser Customization Groups -> Wp -> AUCTeX -> Tex Command -> LaTeX
>> Command Style to "pdflatex"; then click on "Save for Future
>> Sessions".  C-c C-c in LaTeX should then by default run pdflatex on
>> your source.
>
> And then you will have to customize your viewer as well, and the
> detection when to run LaTeX and when to run the viewer will fail (as
> no DVI file gets generated) and so forth and so on.

Oops right -- I used the above trick under OS X using a previewer that
detected changes in the PDF file automagically whenever LaTeX ran, so
only had to (manually) call the viewer once at the beginning of an
editing session.

> Just upgrade your AUCTeX dinosaur to a current version, and PDFLaTeX
> is supported perfectly well.

Obviously the best solution.