[PLUG] Running LaTeX Within Emacs

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Ali Corbin wrote:

> I don't do this myself, but I just took a look at the latex section of the
> emacs wiki:
>
>    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LaTeX
>
> and it appears that the .tex suffix by default puts you in tex mode. You
> can try renaming your files to .latex or .ltx, or do a M-x latex-mode in
> the .tex file to see if it works any better. (You can also use
> auto-mode-alist to force .tex files to be put into latex mode.)

Ali,

   Thanks very much for coming through again. Using 'M-x latex-mode' works
like a charm. In the output buffer I still need to manually run dvips and gv,
but it saves one step.

   I wasn't aware of the emacs wiki. I'll go look at it.

Rich

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