[AUCTeX] Re: Can xetex be used in auctex?

[Leo]

On 2009-04-06 21:22 +0100, Ed C. wrote:
> I learn from the web that miktex 2.7 includes support for xetex but I
> get nothing but many pages of errors when I try to compile the sample
> code at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xetex
>
> Also, if xelatex is a command line program why does xelatex --help
> reveal that it doesn't need any arguments???

The above questions probably should be asked in XeTeX mailing list.

> Is it possible to run this tex variant from auctex?

,----[ C-h v TeX-engine RET ]
| TeX-engine is a variable defined in `tex.el'.
| Its value is default
| 
|   This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
|   satisfies the predicate which is byte-compiled expression.
| 
| Documentation:
| Type of TeX engine to use.
| The value should be one of the symbols `default' for plain old
| TeX or PDFTeX, `xetex' for XeTeX and `omega' for Omega.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

> Thanks,
>
> Ed

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