Re: Feature request: an org user variable for which "latex" command to run

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
Cc: David Moffat <david.c.moffat@googlemail.com>,
	Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: an org user variable for which "latex" command to run
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:48:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BCC84E83-00AC-4C71-8FDF-D215066C9C93@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0e1fe620904220747j64a717c0nb644d52551cc3399@mail.gmail.com>

This is now implemented, please check the variable
`org-latex-to-pdf-process'.

Nick, I used a a modified version of your patch, to make the whole
process configurable, and to make it possible to include a BibTeX run.

Thanks to all who have contributed to this discussion.

- Carsten

On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Scot Becker wrote:

> All,
>
> org-latex.el currently runs the passes this to the shell when running
> the `C-c C-e p' or `C-c C-e d' (process via LaTeX to PDF) commands:
>
> "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode %s"
>
> But a person (like this person) might want to use a different shell
> command to invoke latex, in particular LuaTeX, or XeTeX, two
> unicode-aware successors to pdflatex which also output pdf files.
>
> I use xelatex for it's unicode compatibility and font handling, and
> I'd love to be able to use the speedy C-c C-e d command to get myself
> from .org file to visible PDF---like all the other kids on my street.
>
> I note that emacs already has a variable 'latex-run-command' used by
> latex-mode for invoking latex with C-c C-b.  You will know better than
> I the relative advantages and disadvantages to reusing it.  However
> (1) it is still set to 'latex' out of the box, and so could require
> user changes on some systems to get it to process to a PDF and not to
> a DVI (though not on TeXLive 2008, where latex -> pdflatex). (2) It
> seems a refined (i.e. complex) system:  latex-mode uses
> 'latex-run-command' as its 'tex-command' to process the contents of a
> buffer.  What it passes to the shell is the value of
> 'latex-run-command' + 'tex-start-options' + 'tex-start-commands' and
> finally the filename (though it can be inserted elsewhere with a '*',
> not org's typical '%s'), at least that's as far as I understand it.
>
> Perhaps we don't need to be so clever.  Maybe just an
> 'org-latex-to-pdf-command' variable,  with the default as above?
>
> Thanks,
> Scot
>
>
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