Formatting the document with TeX or LaTeX, viewing with a a
previewer, printing the document, running BibTeX, making an index, or
checking the document with lacheck all require running an
external command.
There are two ways to run an external command, you can either run it on
all of the current document with TeX-command-master, or on the
current region with TeX-command-region.
Command: TeX-command-master
(C-c C-c) Query the user for a command, and run it on the master
file associated with the current buffer. The name of the master file is
controlled by the variable TeX-master. The available commands are
controlled by the variable TeX-command-list.
See section Installation of AUC TeX for a discussion about TeX-command-list and
section Multifile Documents for a discussion about TeX-master.
Command: TeX-command-region
(C-c C-c) Query the user for a command, and run it on the
"region file". Some commands (typically those invoking TeX or
LaTeX) will write the current region into the region file, after
extracting the header and tailer from the master file. The name of the
region file is controlled by the variable TeX-region. The name of
the master file is controlled by the variable TeX-master. The
header is all text up to the line matching the regular expression
TeX-header-end. The trailer is all text from the line matching
the regular expression TeX-trailer-start. The available commands
are controlled by the variable TeX-command-list.
AUC TeX will allow one process for each document, plus one process for the region file to be active at the same time. Thus, if you are editing n different documents, you can have n plus one processes running at the same time. If the last process you started was on the region, the commands described in section Catching the errors and section Controlling the output will work on that process, otherwise they will work on the process associated with the current document.
User Option: TeX-region
The name of the file for temporarily storing the text when formatting the current region.
User Option: TeX-header-end
A regular expression matching the end of the header. By default, this is `\begin{document}' in LaTeX mode and `%**end of header' in TeX mode.
User Option: TeX-trailer-start
A regular expression matching the start of the trailer. By default, this is `\end{document}' in LaTeX mode and `\bye' in TeX mode.
AUC TeX will try to guess what command you want to invoke, but by
default it will assume that you want to run TeX in TeX mode and
LaTeX in LaTeX mode. You can overwrite this by setting the
variable TeX-command-default.
User Option: TeX-command-default
The default command to run in this buffer. Must be an entry in
TeX-command-list.
If you want to overwrite the values of TeX-header-end,
TeX-trailer-start, or TeX-command-default, you can do for
all files by setting them in either TeX-mode-hook,
plain-TeX-mode-hook, or LaTeX-mode-hook. To overwrite
them for a single file, define them as file variables (see section `File Variables' in The Emacs Editor). You do this by putting special
formatted text i near the end of the file.
% Local Variables: % TeX-header-end: "% End-Of-Header" % TeX-trailer-start: "% Start-Of-Trailer" % TeX-command-default: "SliTeX" % End: