I went into LaTeX options -> Customize AUCTEX -> Tex command -> Tex command list and inserted a new “Tex-run-command”

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%`%l%(mode)%’ %t && dvips -Ppdf %d -o && ps2pdf %f && open -a Skim.app %s.pdf
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I activated modes LaTeX and DocTeX for my needs.

the last command is optional and will open skim for preview.

modboy

http://web.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/enhanced-carbon-emacs/

This uses simpdftex which handles eps fine.

Nick

M-x customize-variable RET TeX-view-style

which brings up a “customization buffer”. Now change the entries to look like, for example,

Regexp: ^letterpaper$
Command: dvipdf %d; open -a Skim.app %s.pdf

I am using Skim as a PDF viewer instead of PDFView, otherwise it is same as Evilrho’s.

(setq TeX-view-style ‘((“.” “dvipdf %d; open -a PDFView.app %s.pdf”)))

I also turned off the default PdfLatex command in the Auxtex preference settings within Aquamacs. You’ll note that I call dvipdf first, then open PDFView. This has the advantage of automatically refreshing every time you do a C-c C-c. Of course, you have to do the C-c C-c sequence at least twice in a row since the first time compiles and the second time views.

Now I can compile my .tex files with just one step. I insert my figures via \input{figName.pstex_t}.

It took me a long time to sort this out. I hope it helps someone!

-Cheers

Go to your home directory and then to “~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs”.

There will be a file customizations.el (if not create it) and add this to it

(custom-set-variables
‘(TeX-output-view-style (quote ((“^dvi$” “.” “open -a TeXniscope.app %o”) (“^pdf$” “.” “open -a Skim.app %o”) (“^html?$” “.” “open %o”))))
)

If the file exists you should only add the three lines of the middle in the appearing custom-set-variable… As you can see I’ve Skim for viewing the PDF’s too… For inverse search it’s very nice… If you prefer you can delete “-a Skim.app” so the PDf will be opened with the default viewer.

Probably this could be done in Preferences.el… Moreover, probably that file is the right place to do that but I’m not a Emacs Master…

Cheers..

Thanks to the comments, I just spent three hours installing and fiddling with asymptote. I was attracted to the support for embedding latex math in the figures without using xfig. However, I’m too old to learn a new way to write code to draw figures. Maybe when there is an easy graphical interface to support it, I will switch to that.

I suppose I’ll stick with my old solution. I draw with coreldraw, mostly because I learned (more or less) how to use it. The eps and jpeg conversion (for pdflatex) is OK, but there’s no latex math.

Its funny how everyone’s solutions are different. Not in a million years would I consider the powerpoint -> eps -> pdf route for figures. I don’t recall ever being happy with either ppt to eps conversion or the eps to pdf conversion for inclusion in a pdflatex file.