Re: TeX-macro-global/--with-tex-input-dirs

Jan-Ake Larsson <[email protected]> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> It is LaTeX that figures out whether preview.sty needs to get loaded
>> explicitly.  LaTeX can't fiddle with TEXINPUTS.  We'd probably have to
>> pass the directory information in some manner to preview.sty.
>
> How about a different naming scheme for pr*.def internal to AUCTeX?
> Say, auc_pr*.def, in auc_preview.sty:
> -------------------
> \DeclareOption*
>    {\InputIfFileExists{auc_pr\CurrentOption.def}{}{\OptionNotUsed}}
> -------------------
> Now we can fiddle with TEXINPUTS...
> We can still have a preview.sty that is intended for standalone
> distribution. I imagine doctex can handle this straightaway.

I don't like it since it means that users can't just copy the
preview-latex files from the AUCTeX directory into their local TeX
path if they want to have an up-to-date copy of them.

Anyway, we still have some time for figuring this out.  I guess the
first iteration of AUCTeX+preview-latex might still install into the
TeX tree.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum