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preview-latex TeX files

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From: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: preview-latex TeX files
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 02:53:54 +0200

Hello everybody,
I assume that the preview-latex TeX files are not shipped with TeX Live
or MiKTeX because they have to be kept in sync with AUCTeX in the
first place.

When I install AUCTeX with "./configure && make && make install" these
files are installed into the current TeX Live installation.  This is
fine if there is only one TeX Live installation but I have all TeX
Live releases as of 2003 installed and thus have to run at least "make
install" on all of them.

Furthermore, I'm using Emacs on various machines and thus I install
local additions in ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp rather than in /usr/local and
use version control (Subversion) in order to keep all my machines in
sync.  You can't imagine how convenient this is.

I'm now wondering whether it's possible to maintain the preview-latex
TeX files within the auctex directory i.e., make auctex/preview-latex
self-contained.  Given that preview-latex makes only sense when
invoked from within Emacs, then the TeX files can be put into the
auctex directory and something like

 (setenv "TEXINPUTS" (concat "<path/to/auctex/preview>:" (getenv "TEXINPUTS")))

makes the files accessible to TeX.  Please note the trailing colon.
It's necessary in order to tell kpathsea to append path components
derived from texmf.cnf.

It works here with

  (setenv "TEXINPUTS"
	(concat "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/auctex/preview:" (getenv "TEXINPUTS")))

and the file preview.sty is found.  For general use it's necessary to
determine the location of the auctex directory in order to set
TEXINPUTS.  In my case the location is static.

Can't we make AUCTeX and preview-latex self-contained (decouple them
from TeX distributions) this way?  I suppose that the semantics of
TEXINPUTS are the same in TeX Live and MiKTeX but testing can't hurt.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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Message #8 received at 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>
Cc: 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37171: preview-latex TeX files
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:48:16 +0200

Hi Reinhard,

Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de> writes:

> I'm now wondering whether it's possible to maintain the preview-latex
> TeX files within the auctex directory i.e., make auctex/preview-latex
> self-contained.  Given that preview-latex makes only sense when
> invoked from within Emacs, then the TeX files can be put into the
> auctex directory and something like
>
>  (setenv "TEXINPUTS" (concat "<path/to/auctex/preview>:" (getenv "TEXINPUTS")))
>
> makes the files accessible to TeX.

AUCTeX comes with plenty of options for configure.  I think you want to
set `--with-lispdir', `--with-tex-dir' and `--with-doc-dir' to
directories of your choice.  Please check the manaul for more
details[1].  I use AUCTeX directly out of my local git repo and don't
install it at all :-)

Best, Arash

Footnotes:
[1]  https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex.html#Configure

Message #11 received at 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>, 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37171: preview-latex TeX files
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 23:03:29 +0900

>>>>> Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Reinhard,
> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de> writes:

>> I'm now wondering whether it's possible to maintain the preview-latex
>> TeX files within the auctex directory i.e., make auctex/preview-latex
>> self-contained.  Given that preview-latex makes only sense when
>> invoked from within Emacs, then the TeX files can be put into the
>> auctex directory and something like
>> 
>> (setenv "TEXINPUTS" (concat "<path/to/auctex/preview>:" (getenv "TEXINPUTS")))
>> 
>> makes the files accessible to TeX.

> AUCTeX comes with plenty of options for configure.  I think you want to
> set `--with-lispdir', `--with-tex-dir' and `--with-doc-dir' to
> directories of your choice.  Please check the manaul for more
> details[1].

I always do
./configure --with-texmf-dir=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
and it works well.  That place is common to all versions of TeXLive.

>>>>> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de> writes:
> Furthermore, I'm using Emacs on various machines and thus I install
> local additions in ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp rather than in /usr/local and
> use version control (Subversion) in order to keep all my machines in
> sync.  You can't imagine how convenient this is.

You might be interested in syncing with rsync: https://rsync.samba.org/

Regards,
Ikumi Keita

Message #14 received at 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>, 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37171: preview-latex TeX files
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:43:27 +0200

On 2019-08-24 at 13:48:16 +0200, Arash Esbati wrote:

 > Hi Reinhard,
 >
 > Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de> writes:
 >
 > > I'm now wondering whether it's possible to maintain the preview-latex
 > > TeX files within the auctex directory i.e., make auctex/preview-latex
 > > self-contained.  Given that preview-latex makes only sense when
 > > invoked from within Emacs, then the TeX files can be put into the
 > > auctex directory and something like
 > >
 > >  (setenv "TEXINPUTS" (concat "<path/to/auctex/preview>:" (getenv "TEXINPUTS")))
 > >
 > > makes the files accessible to TeX.
 >
 > AUCTeX comes with plenty of options for configure.  I think you want to
 > set `--with-lispdir', `--with-tex-dir' and `--with-doc-dir' to
 > directories of your choice.  Please check the manaul for more
 > details[1].  I use AUCTeX directly out of my local git repo and don't
 > install it at all :-)

Sorry for the noise and thank you for the link.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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Message #17 received at 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
Cc: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>, 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37171: preview-latex TeX files
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 21:47:05 +0200

Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp> writes:

> I always do
> ./configure --with-texmf-dir=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
> and it works well.  That place is common to all versions of TeXLive.

I vaguely remember that texmf-local used to be under texlive/YEAR and
parallel to texmf-dist.  The separation came sometimes after 2003.  But
again, I might be wrong here.

Best, Arash

Message #22 received at 37171-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>
Cc: 37171-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37171: preview-latex TeX files
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 21:44:12 +0200

Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de> writes:

> Sorry for the noise and thank you for the link.

No problem, I'm closing this one then.

Best, Arash

Message #25 received at 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>, 37171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37171: preview-latex TeX files
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:46:02 +0900

>>>>> Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I vaguely remember that texmf-local used to be under texlive/YEAR and
> parallel to texmf-dist.  The separation came sometimes after 2003.  But
> again, I might be wrong here.

Ah, then I should have added "at least for recent years" to my comment.
Thanks for letting me know.

Best,
Ikumi Keita

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