[ESS] ess-swv-pdflatex-commands options

[Ista Zahn]

Thanks Brian, that is really helpful.

-Ista

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Brian Diggs <diggsb at ohsu.edu> wrote:
> On 3/11/2011 1:37 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> MikTex appears not to have texi2pdf, so the default setting of
>> "texi2pdf" in ess-swv-pdflatex-commands options does not work. I can
>> change it to texi2dvi, except that I actually want a .pdf. From the
>> command line a can run "texi2dvi -p", but if I set this as a value to
>> ess-swv-pdflatex-commands and try to use it I get "ess-swv-PDF:
>> Searching for program: no such file or directory, texi2dvi -p"
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> This bugged me when I switched from TexLive to MikTex as well, especially
> since MikTex is the "recommended" distribution for Windows.
>
> To get around it, I created a batch file named texi2pdf.bat in the MiKTeX
> 2.9/miktex/bin directory.  It has the single line:
>
> texify --pdf %1
>
> Works like a charm for me, including automatic multiple passes when needed.
>
> --
> Brian S. Diggs, PhD
> Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery
> Oregon Health & Science University
>



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Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org