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Re: [AUCTeX] How to implement the function? Identifystate of input method.

2008-08-20T15:50:40

Does "i18n" appear after LaTeX in the minor mode indication? If I understand correctly, you use Ctrl to change input encoding instead of the default (Ctrl-\ ). Could you try the default to see if it works?

Re: [AUCTeX] How to implement the function? Identifystate of input method.

2008-08-20T15:15:03

I have attached a minor mode that changes the input encoding when entering and exiting math-mode or after a backslash. Copy it to a directory that is in the emacs load path (such as /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/) and add: (autoload 'latex-i18n-mode "latex-i18n" t) (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'latex-i18n-mode) to ~/.emacs. Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel< at >gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel

specific developer wanted

ivo welch — 2008-08-17T20:04:37

I would like to hire someone who is an experienced auctex hacker. Hopefully, it will be an hour of work, and I am offering $75 obo. I need a local addon that I can stick into my .emacs file, that does the following: * if the filename ends in .sltx, then load auctex but execute the following set of modifications: # becomes the comment character, not % $ and % lose their special meanings; they become ordinary characters \m{...} has its arguments set as if its math mode. \nl is like \\ \be is like \begin{equation} \ee is like \end{equation} I want indentation and highlighting to work right. That's it. It needs to go into my .emacs file, simply because I want it to survive the next auctex release upgrade. Help appreciated. Regards, /iaw

looking for student programmer

ivo welch — 2008-08-14T13:41:26

auctex does seem a bit too daunting for me to hack. so, I would like to hire someone for 3 hours to put together a hack that does the following (posted earlier): I will use a preprocessor for latex, which does a couple of things, most importantly: # replaces % as the comment character \1,\2.. replaces #1, #2,.. as macro arguments \ns replaces \# \nl replaces \\ \lcp replaces \{ \rcp replaces \} \math{} replaces $...$ \be replaces \[ \ee replaces \] $,% become ordinary characters and I also plan to extend the namespace of macros to include [0-9.:] by mangling it into spelled out versions. Maybe I want to allow ';' as a terminating character that forces interpretation as '{\macro}'. Now, I need a hack that changes the syntax highlighting in auctex. preferably, it would go into my .emacs file, so that future updates to auctex do not need internal tweaking. So, if you know how this would be done, and I can afford your help, I would love to hire you to do this. please send me an email to ivo.welch at gmail.com . Sincerely, /iaw

Re: changing parameters

Ralf Angeli — 2008-08-13T20:15:56

You could probably define a derived mode similar to how it is done for docTeX mode and adapt stuff like `comment-start' when it is initialized.

changing parameters

ivo welch — 2008-08-13T12:40:51

dear auctex-wizards: I am planning to write a preprocessor for latex, which does a couple of things, most importantly: # replaces % as the comment character \1,\2.. replaces #1, #2,.. as macro arguments \ns replaces \# \nl replaces \\ \lcp replaces \{ \rcp replaces \} \math{} replaces $...$ \be replaces \[ \ee replaces \] $,% become ordinary characters and I also plan to extend the namespace of macros to include [0-9.:] by mangling it into spelled out versions. Maybe I want to allow ';' as a terminating character that forces interpretation as '{\macro}'. It is trivial to write a perl preprocessor to handle these changes. the big advantage is that with these changes, writing a tex->anything transcoder becomes a lot simpler. (transcoder, not parser, of course.) ...except that I really would like to maintain basic auctex visibility while editing. would it be very difficult to define, say, '.pltx' which is like latex mode, but knows about these changes? the most important would be to the change of comment character and recognize that $ sign is now ordinary. I looked at the manual, but unfortunately these kind of deeper changes were not described. I also could not figure out how I could change this---whether in my user file or whether it needs source changes (and if so where). I also have a comment regarding the mechanism to add functions. Why not allow the user to define a specific macro, say: \newcommand{\setauctexnumberofparameters}[2]{} and auctex knows that when it sees this function: \setauctexnumberofparameters{\weirdfunction}{4} that this is intended to signal to auctex? ok, I know this can be done by defining elisp after '%' comments in latex itself, too, but then one is in a more complex world again which most latex users do not know. regards, /iaw

Restructuring of AUCTeX manual

Ralf Angeli — 2008-08-09T16:59:05

Hi, I'd like to restructure the manual a bit to make it more accessible. Below you can find the main info menu and the table of contents taken from the PDF output (first two sectioning levels only) as a proposal. The idea is to have fewer entry points covering blocks of documentation which are easily recognized by users (Editing, Display, Processing, Customization) and reducing the clutter on the top level even further by grouping auxiliary chapters (Copying, Introduction, Appendices, Indices). Let me know what you think. Info menu --------- * Copying:: Copying * Introduction:: Introduction to AUCTeX * Editing:: Editing the Document Sources * Display:: Controlling Screen Display * Processing:: Starting Processors, Viewers and Other Programs * Customization:: Customization * Appendices:: Copying, Changes, Development, FAQ * Indices:: Indices Table of contents ----------------- Copying 1 Introduction 1.1 Overview of AUCTeX 1.2 Installing AUCTeX 1.3 Quick Start 2 Editing the Document Sources 2.1 Insertion of Quotes, Dollars, and Braces 2.2 Inserting Font Specifiers 2.3 Inserting chapters, sections, etc 2.4 Inserting Environment Templates 2.5 Entering Mathematics 2.6 Completion 3 Controlling Screen Display 3.1 Font Locking 3.2 Folding Macros and Environments 3.3 Outlining the Document 4 Starting Processors, Viewers and Other Programs 4.1 Executing Commands 4.2 Viewing the formatted output 4.3 Catching the errors 4.4 Checking for problems 4.5 Controlling the output 4.6 Cleaning intermediate and output files 4.7 Documentation about macros and packages 5 Customization 5.1 Multifile Documents 5.2 Automatic Parsing of TeX Files 5.3 Language Support 5.4 Automatic Customization 5.5 Writing Your Own Style Support Appendix A Copying, Changes, Development, FAQ A.1 Copying this Manual A.2 Changes and New Features A.3 Future Development A.4 Frequently Asked Questions Indices Key Index Function Index Variable Index Concept Index

Re: j ust starting

David Kastrup — 2008-08-03T17:45:28

Sounds like you don't have latex in your PATH. Type C-c C-l after trying to LaTeX a file and see in the buffer whether LaTeX starts up at all.

j ust starting

robert coleman — 2008-08-03T17:40:34

I am trying to latex a file. All I get is Latex: problems after [0] pages and no .log file. It does work on my laptop.

Re: AUCTeX tool-bar and icons

Ralf Angeli — 2008-08-03T13:19:23

One could probably just get the respective definition from the global tool bar with someting like (defun toolbarx-emacs-tool-bar-item (entry) "Return item from global tool bar corresponding to symbol ENTRY." (assq entry (cdr (default-value 'tool-bar-map)))) (defun toolbarx-emacs-tool-bar-item-prop (entry prop) "Return property PROP of the global tool bar item corresponding to ENTRY." (plist-get (toolbarx-emacs-tool-bar-item entry) prop)) and (toolbarx-emacs-tool-bar-item-prop 'open-file :help) But the returned forms would have to be evaled at run-time after the global tool bar was created. (At compile time the tool bar is not defined.) So before the current code becomes even more contorted I'll leave this alone for now.

Re: AUCTeX tool-bar and icons

Ralf Angeli — 2008-08-02T20:21:33

I've checked this in.

Warnings when byte-compiling style files

Ralf Angeli — 2008-07-27T21:01:03

Is anybody able to explain why the byte compiler warns about `font-latex-add-keywords' not being defined when compiling style files using this function? Apparently it has no gripes with `TeX-add-symbols', `LaTeX-add-environments', etc. even though there are no special precautions for those either.

Re: Support for SyncTeX

Ralf Angeli — 2008-07-26T17:20:15

I've just checked the sources and it looks like the synchronization process is hard-coded to call the editor part of TeXworks: ,----[ http://code.google.com/p/texworks/source/browse/trunk/src/PDFDocument.cpp ] | void PDFDocument::syncClick(int pageIndex, const QPointF& pos) | { | [...] | TeXDocument::openDocument(QFileInfo(curDir, filename).canonicalFilePath(), synctex_node_line(node)); `---- Skim is highly underdocumented when it comes to forward and inverse search. And since I don't have a Mac, it would be quite difficult to support it. Actually I am not interested in getting OS X because I'd like to avoid non-free systems if possible. In addition the people using or developing for Emacs on the Mac haven't been interested in making AUCTeX fit for the Mac out of the box. If that would be the case we'd probably have a customization scheme for the Mac by now which you could switch on in your init file. Is there a way to call `displayline' without having to provide an absolute path specific to a certain user?

Re: Support for SyncTeX

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez — 2008-07-26T13:17:28

You are right! After removing the old installation, I get the new Texing Options menu. Sorry for the gaffe! Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about TeXworks (I just got it a couple of days ago and have tried it only occasionally). On the other hand, for the Mac OS X community it would be much better to try to make synctex work with the most popular pdf viewer which right now supports inverse search and is being actively developed, namely Skim. Right now I am successfully using pdfsync with Emacs/auctex and Skim. On the auctex side, what I do is use the following entry in TeX Output View Style: ("^pdf$" "." "/Users/artemio/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/displayline %n %o %b") (displayline is just a small command-line utility included in Skim). Thanks a lot for your (and David's) help, and thanks once again for your work on auctex, which I use every day and is really invaluable for my own work! Cheers, Artemio

Re: Support for SyncTeX

David Kastrup — 2008-07-25T17:41:45

Sounds like you did not actually install a fresh version from CVS.

Re: Support for SyncTeX

Ralf Angeli — 2008-07-25T17:40:25

Then your AUCTeX installation is too old. If you are sure that you installed a version from the latest CVS sources, perhaps it is being shadowed by an older installation. In that case, `M-x list-load-path-shadows ' could help to find the other installation. Before I start looking at the sources, does it give some hints about command line options when being called from the command line with something like ` --help'?

Re: Support for SyncTeX

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez — 2008-07-25T17:11:41

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function TeX-source-correlate- determine-method) (TeX-source-correlate-determine-method) eval((TeX-source-correlate-determine-method)) eval-expression((TeX-source-correlate-determine-method) nil) call-interactively(eval-expression) I am afraid I don't know how the TeXWorks viewer works, although I think it's based on the Poppler library (I believe the source code is freely available at http://tug.org/texworks). Cheers, Artemio

Re: Support for SyncTeX

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez — 2008-07-25T16:50:38

David, Sorry if I misunderstood you. To be more precise, unless I load the pdsync package no synchronization (direct or inverse) occurs, even if Source Specials is selected as a TeXing option, nor a .synctex.gz file is created. Cheers, Artemio

Re: Support for SyncTeX

Ralf Angeli — 2008-07-25T16:44:17

What's the result of M-: (TeX-source-correlate-determine-method) ? Do you need to pass any special options to this viewer for inverse search with SyncTeX to work?

Re: Support for SyncTeX

David Kastrup — 2008-07-25T15:49:26

No, read more closely. If what you call "Source Specials" works in PDF mode, guess what is really being used...

Re: Support for SyncTeX

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez — 2008-07-25T15:45:29

David, C-c C-t C-s just activates Source Specials (as usual), but there seems to be no trace of synctex anywhere. Is there anything else I should do to activate it? Also, are there any plans to support inverse search with synctex in the near future? (I've tried it with TeXworks's built in pdf viewer, and it works beautifully.) Cheers, Artemio