Re: How to use texi2dvi for export to LaTeX?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:

> Marius Hofert writes:
> > I found http://orgmode.org/worg/org-dependencies.html and proceeded as described
> > there to set up texi2dvi for LaTeX export. I don't have the egrep bug mentioned,
> > so all I had to do was:
> >
> > 1) put this in ~/.emacs:
> >    (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process "texi2dvi -p %f"); use texi2dvi; see
> >    http://orgmode.org/worg/org-dependencies.html
> 
> This is missing a `'(…)´ around the string.  But you should rather use
> customize to change that variable, which should be a list of strings
> (just on in your case).  Org-latex needs to have been loaded before the
> variable can be customized, however.
> 

I fixed that on worg.

> > 2) put this in ~/.profile:
> >    PDFLATEX="pdflatex --shell-escape"
> >    export PDFLATEX
> 
> You might not want to do this either.  The canonical way to set the
> environment for a single command is to define it right there with the
> invocation of the command.
> 
>  (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process "PDFLATEX=\"pdflatex --shell-escape\" texi2dvi -p %f")
> 
> Or if your system still had the locale bug even
> 
>  (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process "LC_ALL=C PDFLATEX=\"pdflatex --shell-escape\" texi2dvi -p %f")
> 

I added this comment to worg as well, but note that the setqs need the '(...) treatment.

Nick

> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
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