Re: [O] org-e-beamer missing from org-export-dispatch ui

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 08:24:31PM +0000, bernard wrote:
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Nicolas and others,
> > 
> > The option for beamer export seems to have gone missing from the
> > org-export-dispatch ui.  This is how I setup org-e-beamer export in a
> > minimal emacs instance.
> > 
> >   (setq org-e-latex-pdf-process             ; for experimental org-export
> >         '("xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"
> >     "xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"
> >     "xelatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"))
> > 
> 
> Thx for sharing.
> 
> I have
> (setq org-e-latex-pdf-process 
>   '("texi2dvi --pdf --clean --verbose --batch %f"))
> grabbed from 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-09/msg01005.html
> 
> Could you (or someone else) explain the differences and tradeoffs involved
> between both setups ?
> 

Well texi2dvi is very clever and run makeindex or bibtex as needed and
does that quite well until you encounter some of the bugs.  In my case I
encountered the infamous regex range in non-standard locales bug.

In conclusion, if texi2dvi works for you, using it is a good option.

HTH

-- 
Suvayu

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