Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It doesn't seem right to put that in a file's local variables list. > > This is a personal preference issue. > > It usually is, but there are files which simply won't work in one of > the two modes. And for those files, it is not a personal preference. > > Why do some files not work in one of these modes? I'd expect TeX to > be able to produce DVI from any input, and if PDF is made from the > DVI file, that should always work too right?
TeX-PDF-mode does not go through DVI. A different executable "pdftex" is employed that has its own set of primitive commands. > Meanwhile, you ought to be able to control this with a couple of > ordinary variables auctex-cant-make-dvi and auctex-cant-make-pdf, > right? You could set those in appropriate files, and the commands > would look at one or both of them in deciding what to do. Not exactly a pretty and intuitive solution. What we currently do is allowing local variable specifications like TeX-PDF-mode: nil Anyway, it seems pretty natural to offer minor modes with a customizable default setting, and not all minor modes might be 100% user-preference. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
