Custom Command for Swap Symbol?

Question

Hey Everyone,
I have a question about swap symbol. I work at an animation company, and the project we're currently working on requires that we do a lot of symbol swapping for new mouth shapes, body shapes etc. Usually, a quick solution to this would be to make a mouth symbol, for example, and put all the mouths inside one symbol, then use a custom command, firstframe_next/previous. It allows you to quickly scroll through the different frames inside a symbol.On this show, however, we need to do swapping and I lose a lot of time doing so.
I'm wondering, since all the symbols are very well organized, is there a custom command similar to firstframe_next/previous, except for swapping between symbols? That would make work so much faster for me. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

First of all, you will probably save some compilation time by using an "inteligent" script such as latexmk. You should look into it if you have not done so already.
Second of all, AUCTeX will also suggest the "correct" next step when using C-c C-c. Also, you should consider just adding latexmk or your own script to the C-c C-c cycle. Here are some examples from my .emacs
(eval-after-load "tex"
'(progn
(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
(list "View in Acrobat Reader" "acroread %o"
'TeX-run-command nil t))
(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
(list "Count Words" "texcount -inc %s.tex"
'TeX-run-command nil t))
(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
'("Synctex" "/home/rasmus/.scripts/synctex-emacs %t %b %n" TeX-run-TeX nil t) t)
If you want to use a script as the one suggested by yourself you would want to look into the last exampe ("Synctex").
--Rasmus