[tex-live] AUCTeX state

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Ralf Angeli writes:
 > * Reinhard Kotucha (2008-05-07) writes:
 > 
 > > I now upgraded to Emacs 22.2 now and removed obsolete stuff.
 > 
 > Does the upgrade include image libraries?

Yes, stolen from your last alpha version.

  $ ls -1 bin/*.dll
  bin/libXpm.dll
  bin/libpng13.dll
  bin/libtiff3.dll
  bin/zlib1.dll

I've also stolen the license file COPYING-IMAGELIBS.

What is still missing is jpeg62.dll which we did't include in the past
but I found a Windows dll on sourceforge.  No problem for me to
include it too.

 > > Coming back to the question I asked David in Bachotek: Unless some
 > > MinGW programs are installed, Emacs is the only program on Windows
 > > which can display manpages and info files.
 > >
 > > Is there any possibility to make Emacs aware of TeX Live's MANPATH and
 > > INFOPATH?  It can be done somehow using kpsewhich. man/ and info/ are
 > > relative to $SELFAUTOPARENT.
 > 
 > Emacs checks for the environment variables MANPATH and INFOPATH and uses
 > them if set.  On Windows Emacs honors such variables if set in the
 > registry in Software/Gnu/Emacs, see (info "(emacs)MS-Windows Registry").
 > (I'm not sure if this is true for all such variables.)

Yes, but it's better to avoid the registry.  Suppose you want to run
Emacs from a USB stick, then you don't want to 'install' anything.

It's already possible with TeX Live.  It's accomplished by a shell
script/batch file which adds the TL bin directory to PATH and invokes
a new shell.  Even Ghostscript and Perl are not installed anymore on
Windows.  Programs which need them  are invoked by wrapper scripts.

  http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/doc/tlinst-BT08.pdf

 > One can also set the variables `woman-manpath' and
 > `Info-directory-list'.

Yes, this is what I had in mind, but instead of hard-code the TeX Live
paths here, determine them by using kpsewhich.

On Unix:
  infodir=`kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT`/texmf/doc/info 
  mandir=`kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT`/texmf/doc/man 

This would be quite convenient and I suppose that auctex already
determines the path to the LaTeX macro packages this way.

Don't know whether it makes much sense for TL-2008 because it will be
released in a few weeks, but it would be nice to have such a feature
in the future.

 > I'm not sure if one really wants to go through the pain of configuring
 > the respective variables during installation of TeX Live.  Perhaps it
 > would be easier and more intuitive for a Windows user if opening a man
 > or info file from the Windows Explorer opened the respective viewer,
 > i.e. Emacs if there is no other.  But I haven't checked if this works or
 > could be made to work.

It will certainly work for info files, for manpages it is a bit more
difficult because they have different extensions [1-9].  But as I said
before, running TeX Live from a USB stick without installing anything
is a great thing, and it would be great to have a portable Emacs for
Windows too.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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