Re: AucTeX 11.83 and MikTeX 2.5

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Sep 16 2006, Robert McDonald wrote:

> When you enable AucTeX/MikTeX integration in Emacs 22, AucTeX
> assumes that you need to view files with postscript specials using
> gsview.

Only if pstricks or psfrag is used:

,----[ from tex-mik.el ]
| (unless (get 'TeX-output-view-style 'saved-value)
|   (setq TeX-output-view-style
|       '(("^dvi$" "^pstricks$\\|^pst-\\|^psfrag$" "dvips %d -o && start %f")
|         ("^dvi$" "." "yap -1 %dS %d")
|         ("^pdf$" "." "start %o")
|         ("^html?$" "." "start %o"))))
`----

> However, in MikTeX 2.5, yap can handle all previews. 

I'd be surprised if yap really can handle all pstricks and psfrag
tricks.  (But I don't use Windows and so i don't know yap.)

> (One advantage of this is that you can then use inverse search.) I
> have examined tex.el and tex-mik.el to try to figure out how to get
> yap to handle all previews, but my experiments haven't succeeded.

Customize `TeX-output-view-style'.  In other words, delete the
"^pstricks$\\|^pst-\\|^psfrag$" entry there.

Bye, Reiner.
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