How can I configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX without AUCTeX

[George Politis]

The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default. I'm using MiKTeX on Windows (it's in my PATH), if that makes a difference.

I'm pretty sure there must be a simple way to achieve this, but I'm by no means an Emacs expert.

[damien.thiriet77]

Hi,


I don't know how to use XeLaTeX without AUCTeX. With AUCTeX, you'd just have to add those lines at the end of your files:


%%% Local Variables:
%%% coding: utf-8
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-engine: xetex
%%% End:

I know this is not exactly an answer to your question, forgive me my mail is just noise, but reading your mail I thought you might not have tried the AUCTeX way.

Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:45:12 -0800 (PST)
From: George Politis
Subject: How can I configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX without AUCTeX
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default. I'm using MiKTeX on Windows (it's in my PATH), if that makes a difference.
I'm pretty sure there must be a simple way to achieve this, but I'm by no means an Emacs expert.
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[George Politis]

Hi Damien,

thank you for trying to help me. I actually use AUCTeX, I'm sorry I didn't mention that in my first post.

I have a couple of reasons why I don't want to use AUCTeX. First, it's not available everywhere; Then, every time I wish to upgrade Emacs I have to go through [this long page][1] to make sure I didn't mess up anything. Lastly, I don't see the value added.

Since no one has been able to come up with an answer so far, I'm starting to think that there is no such "simple" way, which is surprising.

[1] : http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html

Post by damien.thiriet77
Hi,
%%% coding: utf-8
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-engine: xetex
I know this is not exactly an answer to your question, forgive me my mail is just noise, but reading your mail I thought you might not have tried the AUCTeX way.

Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:45:12 -0800 (PST)
From: George Politis
Subject: How can I configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX without AUCTeX
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default. I'm using MiKTeX on Windows (it's in my PATH), if that makes a difference.
I'm pretty sure there must be a simple way to achieve this, but I'm by no means an Emacs expert.
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[Glyn Millington]

Post by George Politis
Hi Damien,
thank you for trying to help me. I actually use AUCTeX, I'm sorry I
didn't mention that in my first post.
I have a couple of reasons why I don't want to use AUCTeX. First, it's
not available everywhere; Then, every time I wish to upgrade Emacs I
have to go through [this long page][1] to make sure I didn't mess up
anything. Lastly, I don't see the value added.
Since no one has been able to come up with an answer so far, I'm
starting to think that there is no such "simple" way, which is
surprising.

Does this help?


http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2010-05/msg00374.html

atb



Glyn

[George Politis]

Post by Glyn Millington

Post by George Politis
Hi Damien,
thank you for trying to help me. I actually use AUCTeX, I'm sorry I
didn't mention that in my first post.
I have a couple of reasons why I don't want to use AUCTeX. First, it's
not available everywhere; Then, every time I wish to upgrade Emacs I
have to go through [this long page][1] to make sure I didn't mess up
anything. Lastly, I don't see the value added.
Since no one has been able to come up with an answer so far, I'm
starting to think that there is no such "simple" way, which is
surprising.

Does this help?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2010-05/msg00374.html
atb
Glyn

Hi Glyn, if I'm not mistaken, "TeX-command-default" and "TeX-command-list" are AUCTeX specific. That won't work in my case as I'd like to not use AUCTeX.

[George Politis]

Hi Damien,

thank you for trying to help me. I actually use AUCTeX, I'm sorry I didn't mention that in my first post.

I have a couple of reasons why I don't want to use AUCTeX. First, it's not available everywhere; Then, every time I wish to upgrade Emacs I have to go through [this long page][1] to make sure I didn't mess up anything. Lastly, I don't see the value added.

Since no one has been able to come up with an answer so far, I'm starting to think that there is no such "simple" way, which is surprising.

[1] : http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html

Post by damien.thiriet77
Hi,
%%% coding: utf-8
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-engine: xetex
I know this is not exactly an answer to your question, forgive me my mail is just noise, but reading your mail I thought you might not have tried the AUCTeX way.

Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:45:12 -0800 (PST)
From: George Politis
Subject: How can I configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX without AUCTeX
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default. I'm using MiKTeX on Windows (it's in my PATH), if that makes a difference.
I'm pretty sure there must be a simple way to achieve this, but I'm by no means an Emacs expert.
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[Stefan Monnier]

Post by George Politis
The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX
instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default.

For the builtin latex-mode, you'd have to add an entry to
tex-compile-commands (assuming you're using tex-compile, aka C-c C-c).

E.g.

(eval-after-load 'tex-mode
'(add-to-list 'tex-compile-commands
'((concat "xelatex "
(if (< 0 (length tex-start-commands))
(shell-quote-argument tex-start-commands))
" %f")
t "%r.pdf")))


-- Stefan

[George Politis]

Post by Stefan Monnier

Post by George Politis
The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX
instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default.

For the builtin latex-mode, you'd have to add an entry to
tex-compile-commands (assuming you're using tex-compile, aka C-c C-c).
E.g.
(eval-after-load 'tex-mode
'(add-to-list 'tex-compile-commands
'((concat "xelatex "
(if (< 0 (length tex-start-commands))
(shell-quote-argument tex-start-commands))
" %f")
t "%r.pdf")))
-- Stefan

Worked like a charm, thank you Stefan!

[George Politis]

Post by George Politis

Post by Stefan Monnier

Post by George Politis
The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX
instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default.

For the builtin latex-mode, you'd have to add an entry to
tex-compile-commands (assuming you're using tex-compile, aka C-c C-c).
E.g.
(eval-after-load 'tex-mode
'(add-to-list 'tex-compile-commands
'((concat "xelatex "
(if (< 0 (length tex-start-commands))
(shell-quote-argument tex-start-commands))
" %f")
t "%r.pdf")))
-- Stefan

Worked like a charm, thank you Stefan!

I've actually discovered another, much simpler, way of doing this.
Simply set the latex-run-command variable to xelatex. I'm posting it
here in case someone stumbles upon this thread in the future.

(setq latex-run-command "xelatex")