AUCTeX is a package for writing (La)TeX, ConTeXt, docTeX and TeXinfo in Emacs and XEmacs.
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Useful shortcuts or key bindings or predefined commands for emacs+AUCTeX
On of the problems I've encountered with emacs in general, and with the defaults key bindings in particular, is the diversity. There are simply so many of them, that sometimes, at the end of the day, ...
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Setup SyncTeX with Emacs
I want to setup SyncTeX with Emacs, or, more specifically, with AUCTeX, and Evince in Ubuntu. How can I do that? I would like both forward search (from source to output) and inverse search (from ...
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How can I make AUCTeX use the spelling dictionary in the same language as babel is loaded with?
Is it possible to setup AUCTeX so that it loads the spelling dictionary in the same language as the language used by babel? For example, is it possible to load the Danish ispell dictionary when a ...
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AUCTeX and Xetex
I use emacs+AUCTeX to write my *-tex. Using the PDF mode, I can run pdflatex automatically with the C-c C-c command. However, I don't see a way to run xelatex automatically, or even set up a command ...
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How can I make AUCTeX use the spelling dictionary in the same language as polyglossia is loaded with?
Is it possible to setup AUCTeX so that it loads the spelling dictionary in the same language as the language used by polyglossia? For example, is it possible to load the Danish ispell dictionary when ...
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What is your favorite Emacs and/or AUCTeX command/trick?
What is your favorite Emacs and/or AUCTeX command/trick?
The point here is that I don't know what I don't know. I'm an Emacs and AUCTeX user looking to improve my Emacs & AUCTeX use, especially ...
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AucTeX extension for TikZ
Is there an AucTeX extension which supports the TikZ syntax and that one of the tkz-collection as well?
In particular I want thinks like:
syntax highlighting
proper indentation
that ...
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Launching an external PDF viewer from Emacs/AUCTeX on a Mac OSX fails.
I am trying to set Emacs/AUCTeX to invoke an external PDF viewer so I can view the document output, preferably with source correlation via SyncTeX. AUCTeX, by default, suggested evince file.pdf; ...
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emacs/aquamacs + latex/auctex: how to define one's own environments or commands?
I work with Aquamacs (emacs on Mac OS X; latest version) to compile .tex documents. Although AUCTeX provides environments such as enumerate etc., I would like to define a shortcut/macro to get my own ...
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pdflatex fails within Emacs.app, but works in terminal
LaTeX rookie here.
I'm running OS X 10.7 with Emacs 24, Auctex 11.86 and TexLive 2011 via MacTex.
When i run LaTeX through Emacs in the terminal it outputs my test.tex as test.pdf just fine.
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AUCTeX's csquotes integration does not work together with babel
I use the AUCTeX feature to expand " into csquotes macros. To enable it I have put the following in my .emacs:
;; " expands into csquotes macros
(setq LaTeX-csquotes-close-quote "}"
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Auctex TOC with multifile document
I'm writing my PhD thesis with LaTeX-Sweave and I use EMACS with AucTex and ESS. I have a master file (master.tex) and some slave files and my question is about the use of the TOC in the slave files. ...
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How can I tell AUCTeX that breqn is a math environment?
I have recently been trying to use the breqn package to automatically break up my equations. However, I use emacs (and/or Aquamacs, depending on the machine I'm on) with Auctex, and it does not ...
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Click on package name to open corresponding style file?
I think it would be super if, in my LaTeX editor, I could click on the name of package...
\usepackage{blob}
... and the corresponding style file, blob.sty, would be opened.
Do any LaTeX editors ...
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AUCTeX – new commands recognized as such
Many non-base commands, quite used today, are not recognized as such by AUCTeX. This is understandable as not everyone will use them, and not every time. I'm thinking about commands like ...
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Customizing pdfLaTeX for a particular file with AUCTeX?
I'm trying to use the TikZ 'external' library, available as of PGF 2.10. This requires running pdfLaTeX with the option -shell-escape. I usually run pdfLaTeX from AUCTeX with the option
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More fine grained syntax highlighting in Emacs/AUCTeX
I'm using Emacs with AUCTeX to do all my LaTeX. When it comes to syntax highlighting it seems that all mathematics is by default just orange. Do you know of a mode or package that adds some more fine ...
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Emacs, RefTeX and Cleveref – can they work together?
Trying to look for an answer in the net yielded only one questions and one answer which I could neither understand nor use. On tex.stackexchange I found only this question which was answered but I'm ...
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Emacs and latex math delimiters
The forward-sexp command in EMACS can be used to find the $ that closes an inline equation: if the point is before the $ that opens the equation, then forward-sexp moves the point after the closing $. ...
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How to use the standalone package with emacs
This is a follow-up question from A simpleton's guide to (...)TeX workflow with emacs.
The main answer stated that it is possible to use emacs together with standalone: the question is how?
The ...
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How to preview LaTeX in Emacs?
I want a similar layout as in SO, I use it currently as my editor but I would like to find such tool under my fingers. I am more vi-prone so having hard time to get preview-latex working with emacs. I ...
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Entering math mode in AUCTeX using \( and \)
As pointed out in this answer, using \( and \) in order to enter inline math mode in LaTeX is the recommended practice. However, this takes a bit longer if one compares it to $.
Is there a way to ...
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Setting up forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and Evince
Did anyone succeed setting up forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and evince?
In order to establish inverse/forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and evince, it is necessary to:
install new TeX Live ...
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Emacs+AUCTeX lost highlighting
Adding additional highlighted keywords in Emacs+AUCTeX messes up conventional highlighting. My code:
(defvar my-new-face (make-face 'my-new-face))
(defvar my-another-new-face (make-face ...
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Fontifying certain commands using AUCTeX
One thing I've noticed when using AUCTeX recently is that sometimes some commands are not fontified by default such as \maketitle and the fontifying for something like \setlength{\droptitle}{-5em} is ...
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AUCTeX preview-latex previews are ugly (too narrow)
Is there a way to fix Emacs AUCTeX's preview-latex to make the previews look less ugly? Specifically, they are squashed vertically to a height of exactly one line of text. I have screenshots to show ...
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How can I make AUCTeX spell check in the language specified by babel and csquotes macros?
It is possible to make AUCTeX load the spelling dictionary of the language which babel is loaded with. One further convenience would be for it to appropriately react to changes of language within a ...
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Delete comments in tex file with Emacs+Auctex
I am working with other people LaTeX files and sometimes they look very messed up. I am looking for a way to delete all comments without changing the code. The problem is that I want to preserve all ...
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AUCTeX detecting modified files using different output directory
I'm using AUCTeX in Emacs, and would like to store all output files (.aux, .log, .pdf etc) in a sub-directory "output" rather than directly in the current working directory.
To achieve this, I have ...
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Force different TeX engine for specific files
I use Emacs and AucTeX as my writing environment. Pleasantly, I can pick an engine (PDFTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX) and have it execute as default for all my compilations.
However, I have one project where I ...
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font-lock defining keywords containing special characters and whole-words
I found the reference to "\\" on line 283 of font-latex.el of auctex-11.86, and I'd like to remove it as a warning (which is easy enough to delete manually). I have not figured out a way to define ...
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Typeset directly in Spanish
I am typesetting in emacs with AucTeX. I generally write in English and Spanish, and, therefore, use the following in my preamble:
\usepackage[english,spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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preview-latex does not function
Preview-latex installs, but doesn't actually preview. When I generate the preview from the source, all I see is... the source. For example, the math equations are highlighted, but not rendered.
Some ...
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Emacs / AUCTeX — Customization of keyword highlight syntax
font-lock-keyword-face is used by AUCTeX for all keywords, and I have not been able to find a way to create a new keyword that is a different color.
I have defined the foreground of ...
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Emacs + Auctex, Latex environment
I'm writing a document in LaTeX. The document is divided in .tex documents and compiled using a Makefile.
My question is, could I see the dvi/PDF for the section of the document that I'm already ...
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auctex does not parse own sty file
a own sty file is not parsed to find commands, it means they can not use with C-c C-m
I use the following .emacs
(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)
(require 'tex-site)
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AUCTeX write only region file
Since I'm used to use latexmk -pvc I'd like to do the following:
Run latexmk -pvc (externally) on the _region_.tex file
Use AUCTeX to just write the region file instead of compiling.
Is there a ...
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AucTeX (in Emacs) doesn't seem to find certain packages
I am using AucTeX in emacs v23 in PFD-mode. When invoking the pdflatex compiler through C-c C-c LaTeX I get a [...] file <some_package>.sty not found error for some particular packages. For ...
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Setup Synctex with Emacs in Windows with Sumatra PDF [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A simpleton's guide to (…)TeX workflow with emacs
I want to setup SyncTeX in GNU Emacs 23.3.1 with Auctex 11.86 to work with Sumatra PDF 2.0.1. I use Windows ...
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RefTex won't detect my .bib file [closed]
I'm using emacs+AUCTeX+RefTeX and I have a problem with C-c [, namely, it doesn't open a list of matches from my .bib file.
In more details, I have the following in my preamble:
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