[XeTeX] Emacs (X11) and XeTeX

[Stephen Moye]

>From: "Stephen Moye" <stephenmoye at mac.com>
>To: "Stephen Moye" <stephenmoye at mac.com>
>Date: February 03, 2007 07:42:02 AM EST
>Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Emacs (X11) and XeTeX
>
>
>On Feb 3, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 1, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Martin Steer wrote:
>>
>>> Stephen Moye <stephenmoye at mac.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I am now quite happily using emacs under X11. I'd like to be able to
>>>> run XeTeX (preferably with options such as -output-driver=..., or,
>>>> better, run shell scripts such as TeXShop's 'engines') in much the
>>>> same way that a LaTeX file is run (C-c C-c), say, with something
>>>> like C-c C-x. It just occurred to me that it would be nice if emacs
>>>> could be persuaded to read the %!TEX comments and act accordingly.
>>>>
>>>> I have googled, but have only turned up references to auctex, which
>>>> apparently had support for XeTeX but which, according to some of the
>>>> posts I read, seems to be broken.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone doing this currently? Would there be a more effective
>>>> place to post this query?
>>>
>>> I had a look at the auctex list, and found a nice solution. Putting
>>> the following expression in your .emacs (use the customization buffer
>>> if you prefer) will add xelatex as a command style:
>>>
>>> (add-to-list 'LaTeX-command-style
>>> 	     '("\\`fontspec\\'" "xelatex %S%(PDFout)"))
>>>
>>> When you compile (C-c C-c) a file which calls fontspec, xelatex will
>>> be used. You could make that "xelatex -output-driver=xdvipdfmx
>>> %S%(PDFout)", etc.
>>>
>>> Were you suggesting that auctex is broken (it's not), or that auctex
>>> support for xetex is broken? If you use emacs for tex then auctex is
>>> certainly worth trying.
>>
>> Following your suggestion, I have installed auctex and am very  
>> happy with it indeed.
>>
>> One final question: How do I set about altering
>>
>>> (add-to-list 'LaTeX-command-style
>>> 	     '("\\`fontspec\\'" "xelatex %S%(PDFout)"))
>>
>> to use plain TeX xetex? I think that I should be able to answer that
>> one myself, but I have no confidence whatsoever in my fledgling
>> abilities to decipher lisp statements...
>>
>> Thank you again for the help.
>>
>>
>> Stephen

Well, scratch that bit about the final question... 8>}

I put:

>>> (add-to-list 'LaTeX-command-style
>>> 	     '("\\`fontspec\\'" "xelatex %S%(PDFout)"))


in my .emacs file, and got this error message from emacs (I'm using  
emacs 22):

(emacs)
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el (source)...done


An error has occurred while loading `/Users/smoye/.emacs':

Symbol's value as variable is void: LaTeX-command-style

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

%%%%%%

Did I do something wrong?

Sorry to be a bother...

Stephen

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