Re: pdflatex called instead of latex

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:54:36 +0100
> From: Oliver Kullmann <address@hidden>
> 
> I'm using
> 
> > xemacs -version
> XEmacs 21.5  (beta21) "corn" (+CVS-20050720) [Lucid] (x86_64-suse-linux, 
> Mule) of Mon Sep 12 2005 on lrupp1
> 
> under Suse Linux 10.0.
> 
> When opening a .tex-file which has the lines
> 
> \begin{verbatim*}
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> \end{verbatim*}
> 
> in it (since it *documents* usage of latex) xemacs opens this file
> in pdflatex-font, and runs pdflatex on it, which is the wrong
> choice --- it should just run the standard, that is, latex on it.
> 
> This kind of "intelligent behaviour" shouldn't exist in free software (which 
> should
> let the user decide, and shouldn't force "doing the right thing" on the user).

I think you are posting this to the wrong forum.  You should post this
to an XEmacs-related list, since the relevant package is maintained as
part of XEmacs, not as part of Texinfo.