running plain tex

[Sebastian Luque]

Hi,

I'd like to run plain TeX on some files from within AUC-TeX, but couldn't find how
to do it in the manual. Where should I look? Thank you.

Cheers,

[Sebastian Luque]

Hi,

I checked the manual and menu options, but couldn't find how to run plain tex
from AUC-TeX. Did I miss something?

Cheers,

[David Kastrup]

Post by Sebastian Luque
I checked the manual and menu options, but couldn't find how to run
plain tex from AUC-TeX. Did I miss something?

What concrete problem did you experience? If you open an existing
plain TeX file, it should be in plain-TeX-mode. You can place a new
file into plain-TeX-mode by explicitly calling M-x plain-TeX-mode RET,
and you can customize TeX-default-mode if you want all files where
AUCTeX is in doubt be opened in plain-TeX-mode.

Once you are in plain-TeX-mode, you'll have a "TeX" command available
for running plain TeX.

[Sebastian Luque]

David Kastrup <***@gnu.org> wrote:

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Post by David Kastrup
What concrete problem did you experience?

I opened a *.tex file that's supposed to be plain-TeX'ed. I didn't find a menu
option, or an interactive function I could call, for running plain TeX on it.

Post by David Kastrup
If you open an existing plain TeX file, it should be in plain-TeX-mode. You
can place a new file into plain-TeX-mode by explicitly calling M-x
plain-TeX-mode RET, and you can customize TeX-default-mode if you want all
files where AUCTeX is in doubt be opened in plain-TeX-mode.

That's it, thank you. How does AUC-TeX know if a file is plain TeX or LaTeX?

[Ralf Angeli]

Post by Sebastian Luque

Post by David Kastrup
If you open an existing plain TeX file, it should be in
plain-TeX-mode. You can place a new file into plain-TeX-mode by
explicitly calling M-x plain-TeX-mode RET, and you can customize
TeX-default-mode if you want all files where AUCTeX is in doubt be
opened in plain-TeX-mode.

That's it, thank you. How does AUC-TeX know if a file is plain TeX or LaTeX?

Look at `C-h f tex-mode RET' and `C-h v TeX-format-list RET'.