[AUCTeX] questions on "Tex region" for multifile

[D Wang, Electrical & Electronic Engineering]

Dear David,

Thank you very much for the help! I have installed AucTex successfully!

The "Tex region" function can work for a single master file, but I still 
can't make it to work for multifile. I have added the following lines in 
the .emacs :

(require 'tex-site)

(setq-default TeX-master nil)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq TeX-auto-save t)

but it never asks me for the name of the master file.

I tried:

1. put the master file name ``mymaster'' into the .emacs to replace the 
nil;

2. add the

%%% Local Variables:
%%% TeX-master: ``mymaster''
%%% End:

in the end of the buffer file;

3. add the

\begin{document}

in the beginning of the buffer file,

\end{document}

in the end of the buffer file;

they all failed.

Do you have any idea about what else can be done to fulfil "Tex region" for 
multifile document?

Thanks for your time and look forward to a positive answer.

Best regards,

Gary








--On 19 July 2005 20:14 +0200 David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> "D Wang, Electrical & Electronic Engineering" <address@hidden>
> writes:
>
> > Dear Kresten,
> >
> > Thanks for the manual of AucTex.
>
> Well, if anybody knows how to actually reach Kresten these days, I'd
> not mind getting a pointer.
>
> > I have used Emacs and MikTex on Windows for a long time. Now I want
> > the function of viewing the print output of a small Tex region
> > without compiling the whole document.
> >
> > Is this function available in Emacs itself without AucTex?
>
> Uh, actually I don't know.  After all, this _is_ the AUCTeX users'
> list.
>
> > There is a menu in Emacs "Tex --> Tex Region", but I can't make it
> > work.
>
> It is likely that it requires the
> \begin{document}
> and
> \end{document}
> to be on a line of their own, without indentation and in exactly that
> form.  And in the file that you are wanting to compile.  If this is
> already the case, I am out of guesses.
>
> AUCTeX will, by the way, have similar requirements to get this to
> work.
>
> > 1. Is the "MSYS tool set" in your manual the "MSYS-1.0.10.exe" from
> > <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435>, or the
> > "msysDTK-1.0.1.exe"? I downloaded and ran the "MSYS-1.0.10.exe".
>
> Sounds ok.
>
> > 2. The GNU EMacs and MikTex are already in my machine. I can't carry
> > out the step 5 (page 8) in your manual and need more details
> > there. To have "bash", there is no .exe from
> > <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/>, only source code. And itself has a
> > "configure" in its directory. Could you help me to be able to
> > takeoff in step 5?
>
> MSYS, when installed, places an icon on your desktop.  Double-click on
> that icon, and this starts a "bash" shell.
>
> --
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum