[plt-scheme] SLaTeX: getting it to work

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 5 13:05:24 EST 2008

I have a slow laptop and often run it on quite large documents, and
tend to have a very rapid edit-run-view cycle, so I like having the
default operation be quick and the slow operation be not-the-default.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> But you can run slatex or latex from Emacs with equal ease, no?
> They're both .exe's?
>
> Robby
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>> +1
>>
>> I actually have never fixed this bug because I consider it a
>> "feature".  In run LaTeX from within Emacs, so I only need to shift to
>> the shell to run SLaTeX, which is much less often.
>>
>> S.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>> Also: I sometimes just run slatex (which you can run from the
>>> commandline, btw) and when it fails like that, just run latex. slatex
>>> has already done its job at that point and it runs latex as a
>>> convenience, but you can just run it manually.
>>>
>>> Robby
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Ben Goetter <goetter at mazama.net> wrote:
>>>> Bas Steunebrink wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> . . collects\slatex\slatex-wrapper.ss:37:16: latex: could not find latex
>>>>> binary: "latex.exe"
>>>>>
>>>>> I have MiKTeX installed and use WinEdt daily, which has no trouble finding
>>>>> latex binaries. How does one direct SLaTeX to these binaries?
>>>>
>>>> slatex.exe must have latex.exe on its PATH.
>>>>
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