Do not enforce `-pdfdvi`

Question

Do not enforce `-pdfdvi`

Closed this issue 11 years ago · 7 comments

The -pdfdvi option to latexmk breaks with lualatex and xelatex, which directly build PDF. Please make it optional.

Answer 1 · 2013-06-14T12:27:53.000Z

Thank you for your report.

I added auctex-latexmk-options variable for this purpose.
You can customize options for latexmk as follows:

(custom-set-variables
 '(auctex-latexmk-options "-xelatex"))

Answer 2 · 2013-06-14T16:16:50.000Z

That's not exactly the fix I wanted.

Please don't pass any options at all to latexmk. You don't need these. latexmk reads a latexmkrc file from the same directory as the document it processes. Use it.

Specifically for -dvipdf, create a latexmkrc file with the following contents:

$pdf_mode = 3

If you insist on options, at least don't make -dvipdf the default. Who's still using DVI anyway?

Answer 3 · 2013-06-14T16:57:57.000Z

I see.
I remove auctex-latexmk-options and remove options from LatexMk command.

BTW, most Japanese still uses DVI to generate PDF because pdflatex cannot handle Japanese (Chinese and Korean also, I guess) .
So we first generate DVI from LaTeX and then generate PDF from DVI.
We wait for pdflatex to support Japanese...

Answer 4 · 2013-06-14T16:59:16.000Z

@tom-tan What about lualatex?

Answer 5 · 2013-06-14T17:31:06.000Z

Some people heve been developed a luatex macro package to support Japanese.
But it is still in alpha version and I found it does not support Shift-JIS and EUC-JP (Japanese specific encoding).

I want to use only UTF-8 but many Japanese conferences provide style files only in Japanese specific encoding,
and I need to consider these encodings.

Answer 6 · 2013-06-14T17:41:41.000Z

@tom-tan Ok, I see. In Europe, many already go for LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX to make use of modern TTF and OpenType fonts.

Answer 7 · 2013-06-15T00:15:40.000Z

Anyway, I close it.
Please let me know if you think it is not closed.