Re: Why does a `standalone` document set `TeX-PDF-from-DVI`?

[Maximilian Wuttke]

Hi Ikumi,

On 12/01/2021 06:08, Ikumi Keita wrote:
> Strange. More detail is necessary to find out why. Could you show your
> config related to AUCTeX (in your ~/.emacs.d/init.el, ~/.emacs or
> something like those)? Also, include the diagnosis provided by M-x
> TeX-submit-bug-report.

OK, I tried to bisect my .emacs file. I could 'kill' almost everything
and still reproduce the bug. All what I left was the following:

> (require 'package)
> (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/";) t)
> (package-initialize)
> 
> ;; Commenting the below obviously disables `TeX-PDF-from-DVI'.
> (setq TeX-parse-self t)


The output of `TeX-submit-bug-report` is below.
(I am using Arch GNU/Linux, in case that matters.)

Thanks
Maximilian


> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, 
> cairo version 1.17.3)
>  of 2020-08-28
> Package: 13.0.3
> 
> current state:
> ==============
> (setq
>  AUCTeX-date "2021-01-08"
>  window-system 'x
>  LaTeX-version "2e"
>  TeX-style-path '("~/.emacs.d/auctex" 
> "/home/maxi/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.0.3/style"
>                 "/home/maxi/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" 
> "/home/maxi/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
>  TeX-auto-save nil
>  TeX-parse-self t
>  TeX-master t
>  TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %`%(extraopts) 
> %S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX
>                    nil (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help "Run 
> plain TeX")
>                   ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %T" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode 
> doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
>                   ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %t" TeX-run-compile nil 
> (texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
>                   ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) --html %t" 
> TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
>                   ("AmSTeX" "amstex %(PDFout) %`%(extraopts) %S%(mode)%' %t" 
> TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode)
>                    :help "Run AMSTeX")
>                   ("ConTeXt" "%(cntxcom) --once --texutil %(extraopts) 
> %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
>                    (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
>                   ("ConTeXt Full" "%(cntxcom) %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" 
> TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help
>                    "Run ConTeXt until completion")
>                   ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode context-mode) :help
>                    "Run BibTeX")
>                   ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help "Run Biber")
>                   ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run 
> Viewer")
>                   ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
>                   ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the 
> printer queue" :visible
>                    TeX-queue-command)
>                   ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips t
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Generate PostScript file")
>                   ("Dvips" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Convert DVI file to PostScript")
>                   ("Dvipdfmx" "dvipdfmx %d" TeX-run-dvipdfmx nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Convert DVI file to PDF with dvipdfmx")
>                   ("Ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f" TeX-run-ps2pdf nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Convert PostScript file to PDF")
>                   ("Glossaries" "makeglossaries %s" TeX-run-command nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Run makeglossaries to create glossary\n     file")
>                   ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-index nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Run makeindex to create index file")
>                   ("upMendex" "upmendex %s" TeX-run-index t
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Run upmendex to create index file")
>                   ("Xindy" "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil
>                    (plain-tex-mode latex-mode doctex-mode ams-tex-mode 
> texinfo-mode) :help
>                    "Run xindy to create index file")
>                   ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help
>                    "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
>                   ("ChkTeX" "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) 
> :help
>                    "Check LaTeX file for common mistakes")
>                   ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil 
> t :help "Spell-check the document")
>                   ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete 
> generated intermediate files")
>                   ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help
>                    "Delete generated intermediate and output files")
>                   ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary 
> command"))
>  )