[macemacsjp-english 887] Re: auctex/pdf

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Seiji Zenitani zenit****@mac*****
Wed Feb 7 11:56:17 JST 2007


Hi,

On 2007/02/06, at 14:33, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>> Hi Kasper,
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> In my opinion there is no discussion: the default setting should be
>>> to invoke "open" on the file. The user then needs to configure his
>>> system to work as he intends, eg. to associate PDFView permanently
>>> with PDF files (as I have done) and do something similar with dvi
>>> files. This is a default setting for an application - of course it
>>> should use default settings for that file from the OS. Anything else
>>> assumes quite a bit on how peoples systems are set up.
>>>
>>> While I prefer PDFView for pdf files I do not think it is reasonable
>>> to enforce that on a user via a default setting.
>>
>> I agree with you that this is a rational decision. For example, I
>> prefer Preview, but this should not be forced on other users, and  
>> I myself
>> may change my mind some day.

Here's another beta. All of dvi/pdf/html files are set to use "open %o".
http://macemacsjp.sourceforge.jp/package/test/

So, quick question: "texdoc" or "open"?


>>> There could be however, a question on the webpage on how to  
>>> configure
>>> AUCTeX with a link to PDFView and similar (where I have helped
>>> putting up some (currently incomplete) solutions for Carbon Emacs.
>>
>> Where is this information? May be you have a better solution than
>> mine.
>>
>> I myself have used the previous solution that I already posted: I
>> added
>> up an external AUCTeX Command for viewing dvi files (by a compound
>> command
>> created with sh script which converts the dvi into pdf and then
>> opens the
>> pdf in Preview). By doing so, AUCTeX could not anymore, by default,
>> open
>> Preview for pdf files created with pdflatex. So, I just added this by
>> Customize AUCTeX, I made by INS "open -a Preview" the default View  
>> for
>> files with pdf ("^pdf$") extension.
>>
>> How did you add PDFView?
>
> I added the following to my .emacs:
>
> (server-start)
> (defun raise-emacs-on-aqua()
>    (shell-command
>     "osascript -e 'tell application \"Aquamacs Emacs\" to activate'  
> &"))
> (add-hook 'server-switch-hook 'raise-emacs-on-aqua)

(add-hook 'server-switch-hook 'raise-frame) doesn't work?


Seiji




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