[tex-live] AUCTeX state
Ralf Angeli
angeli at caeruleus.net
Sat May 10 23:15:13 CEST 2008
* Reinhard Kotucha (2008-05-10) writes:
> Ralf Angeli writes:
> > * Reinhard Kotucha (2008-05-07) writes:
> >
> > > I now upgraded to Emacs 22.2 now and removed obsolete stuff.
> >
> > Does the upgrade include image libraries?
>
> Yes, stolen from your last alpha version.
>
> $ ls -1 bin/*.dll
> bin/libXpm.dll
Emacs 22.2 for Windows already comes with libXpm.dll equipped, so it
should not be overwritten.
> bin/libpng13.dll
> bin/libtiff3.dll
> bin/zlib1.dll
The PNG library needs updating. There is a newer version available by
the GnuWin32 project.
> I've also stolen the license file COPYING-IMAGELIBS.
>
> What is still missing is jpeg62.dll which we did't include in the past
> but I found a Windows dll on sourceforge. No problem for me to
> include it too.
I refrained from including it in the past because I was not sure about
the state of patents on JPEG.
> > One can also set the variables `woman-manpath' and
> > `Info-directory-list'.
>
> Yes, this is what I had in mind, but instead of hard-code the TeX Live
> paths here, determine them by using kpsewhich.
>
> On Unix:
> infodir=`kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT`/texmf/doc/info
> mandir=`kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT`/texmf/doc/man
>
> This would be quite convenient and I suppose that auctex already
> determines the path to the LaTeX macro packages this way.
Yes, when providing completion alternatives for stuff like \input or
\usepackage. This requires, however, that `kpsewhich' is in PATH. (Of
course the same is true for `latex' and similar binaries.)
--
Ralf
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