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AUCTeX says "LaTeX: problems after {1} page"
AUCTeX parses the output buffer in order to report errors and warnings, and if there is none of them, it looks for a line like
LaTeX2e <date>
However, since April 2017, the date format of ...
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What does 'Tex-master' mean?
The tex master tells emacs which document to pass to latex.
So you can have a section or even just a single equation in a file that is \input into your master document, and when you use C-c C-c or ...
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Emacs/AUCTeX/LaTeXmk: Default compilation command only on first run?
Short answer: AUCTeX doesn't play very well with latexmk, by default.
Long answer: AUCTeX has its own system to decide what command to run next, when building a document. This is based on reading ...
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Emacs+AUCTeX: Improve ConTeXt mode indentation
Note: this question led to the inclusion of the following fix in AUCTeX. It'll be available in the ELPA version 11.90.3 and the stable version 11.91.
Warning: this answer does almost what you asked.
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Emacs AUCTeX & TL 2018 - Problems with non ASCII characters in the file name
We (for some definition of "we") will sort something out, but for now you can customize the latex command as follows (thanks jfbu)
customize TeX-command-list to contain
("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' \\\\...
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Custom font specifiers in AUCTeX
Customize the variable LaTeX-font-list with M-x customize-variable RET LaTeX-font-list RET.
Note that C-a is already preset. You can either change that entry or pick another key for your command. ...
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Redefining keymaps of math symbol in AUCTEX
When else fails, read the documentation:
The variable LaTeX-math-list allows you to add your own mappings.
User Option: LaTeX-math-list
A list containing user-defined keys and commands to ...
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Emacs + auctex freezes when compiling with lualatex
With the "Local Variables" settings, you may declare the 'engine' that Emacs will call. Usually your choice will be one of default¹ luatex, or xetex. The mode, conversely will name the format you are ...
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how to compile tex file with -shell-escape in AucTeX using C-c C-c on ubuntu
You have to put it into a Local Variables block.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
%%% Local Variables:
%%% TeX-command-extra-options: "-shell-escape"
%%% End:
When I open ...
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emacs auctex tabular vertical alignment of & cells
You can use the function align-regexp from align.el library supplied by Emacs itself. With cursor in the table, hit C-c . to mark the environment. Now hit C-u M-x align-regexp RET and append & ...
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Adding an option to the PDFLaTeX call from AUCTeX
To summarize the answer by @giordano for use by an Elisp beginner, you should add this to the bottom of your TeX document:
% Local Variables:
% TeX-command-extra-options: "-shell-escape"
% End:
And ...
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automatic formatting of reference label
This behavior is controlled by the variable reftex-label-alist-builtin in reftex-vars.el, you find an entry there saying:
(LaTeX "LaTeX default environments"
;; ...
("equation" ?e "eq:" ...
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use beamer auctex'hooks with class file derived from beamer
Using M-x TeX-auto-generate in the simplest way
The simplest way is, I think:
Inside Emacs, in a buffer using AUCTeX, do C-h v TeX-auto-private and create the directory corresponding to the variable'...
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Configuring Emacs/AucTeX in Windows 10 to use Sumatra PDF?
AUCTeX's built-in support for SumatraPDF was improved with the
release of version 11.90. So make sure you have the latest
version installed, which can be easily done from ELPA.
You need to touch ...
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Efficiently highlight known math macros in AucTeX
AUCTeX has built-in facilities for custom fontification. Check the documentation, section User-defined keyword classes. You have to set the variable font-latex-user-keyword-classes. I did this in ...
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Entering math mode in AUCTeX using \( and \)
As described in its documentation, AUCTeX provides the function TeX-insert-dollar which inserts the two strings of TeX-electric-math and adjusts point position to between those strings when "$" is ...
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AUCTeX: How to toggle between \( \) and \[ \]
Select a region that isn't in math mode, and press $: the first time you'll wrap it with inline math delimiters (e.g. \(...\)or $...$), the second time it'll be replaced by display math delimiters (e....
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AucTeX mistakes Tikz warning as error
Exclamation marks are usually employed to denote errors, rather than warnings. Consider for example this document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{does-not-exist}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\...
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Can not generate Preview by AUCTeX
Moderators, please don't remove this answer, I am aware that I should comment rather than answer, but I cannot comment as I don't have sufficient reputation. My Stack Overflow reputation doesn't carry ...
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Unexpected behaviour when typing quotes with babel
This behavior is actually expected and documented in AUCTeX manual:
5.4.1.2 Style Files for Different Languages
AUCTeX supports style files for several languages. Each style file may
modify ...
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AUCTeX Custom Command broken in new version?
I don't think it is much in the AUCTeX spirit to tune LaTeX-command in order to specify that you want to use pdflatex. AUCTeX knows about TeX engines and how to activate DVI or PDF mode depending on ...
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Installing AUCTeX on Windows 10
As well as posting the question here I also contacted the developers of AUCTeX directly.
I received a reply stating that the AUCTeX installation instructions for Windows provided on the GNU website ...
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Looking for a good Emacs/AUCTeX setup for LaTeX3
I have looked (admittedly, not very hard), and like you, didn't find much. As a result, I currently use a self-written (in elisp) LaTeX3-mode, which is an extension of the basic latex-mode (not AucTeX)...
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Indentation inside align environment in Emacs + AUCTeX
Customize LaTeX-indent-environment-list: M-x customize-variable RET LaTeX-indent-environment-list RET and uncheck align and align*
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how to deactivate eqnarray environment in AUCTeX
You would have to edit latex.el, but as you said, not the best choice.
Not heavily tested, but putting this into your init file should do the trick:
(defun dj/remove-eqnarray ()
"Remove eqnarray*? ...
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Exporting .org files to LaTeX - Error
Not exactly an Ubuntu answer, but I came to this page looking for a solution for the same error on a Mac. I believe my MacOS-specific answer can be adapted to other OSes.
For me, installing the ...
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AUCTeX problem when splitting documents
Issue C-u C-c C-n (or from menu LaTeX → Multifile/Parsing → Reset AUCTeX) in preamble.tex's and then in document.tex's buffer, in this order.
Please note that the TeX-master-file variable is wrongly ...
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For a absolute beginner, how to start to learn Emacs and AucTeX?
I advise against learning LaTeX and Emacs from scratch together. In the beginning you'll never know where to look for the error. Emacs is a real beast. There are many possibilities to cause errors on ...
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How to set syntax highlighting for \citep as same as \cite in AUCTeX?
There are 2 solutions for your question.
Prerequisite
Update AUCTeX to latest version 11.90. I suggest you do it via ELPA as described in the manual. If you do so, please also read Quick Start. ...
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Invoke complete compilation chain in AUCTex with C-C C-a
There are a few issues here on the AUCTeX's side.
The first, most important, is that AUCTeX doesn't handle the case in which the TeX file and the bibliography file share the same base name (e.g., the ...
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