Re: [AUCTeX] Re: running xelatex instead of pdflatex

[Ralf Angeli]

* Patrick Gundlach (2005-12-18) writes:

>> Do the documents use special LaTeX packages which could be checked in
>> `LaTeX-command-style'?
>
> \usepackage{fontspec} is currently (and will be for some time from
> now) a 100% proof that xelatex should be used. Of course, the absence
> is not a proof that xelatex shouldn't be used, but I think a test on
> the presence of fontspec should be enough.

Then something like

(add-to-list 'LaTeX-command-style
             '("\\`fontspec\\'" "xe%(PDF)latex %S%(PDFout)"))

should work.

I don't know if there is something like `xepdflatex' and if it is, if
it can be used in PDF or DVI mode, so you will have to figure this out
yourself.

-- 
Ralf