Re: Auctex&Beamer recognising pdftex mode automatically

[Amy Templeton]

Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> wrote:
> I've been looking for a way to get Emacs/AucTeX to recognise that
> a paticular latex file should be processed by pdflatex, and was
> delighted to stumble on the fact that
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} or \documentclass[pdftex]{...} was
> enough.

> But it doesn't seem to work for Beamer files, i.e.
> \documentclass[pdftex]{beamer} still gets put in LaTeX-mode. Is
> this an oddity of beamer.cls?

That's very odd...over here it definitely creates PDFs correctly if
you put the [pdftex] argument in the \documentclass command, and I
just made up a Beamer presentation the other day. However, it still
says "latex" is the default compiler when I hit C-c C-c...but the
output is definitely straight to PDF. Are you using any packages
that might conflict with this behavior?

Amy

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