A. Changes and New Features
News in 11.55
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A bug was fixed which lead to the insertion of trailing whitespace
during filling. In particular extra spaces were added to sentence
endings at the end of lines. You can make this whitespace visible by
setting the variable
show-trailing-whitespace
to t
. If
you want to delete all trailing whitespace in a buffer, type M-x
delete-trailing-whitespace RET.
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A bug was fixed which lead to a ‘*Compile-Log*’ buffer popping up
when the first LaTeX file was loaded in an Emacs session.
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On some systems the presence of an outdated Emacspeak package lead to
the error message ‘File mode specification error: (error "Variable
binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")’. Precautions were added which
prevent this error from happening. But nevertheless, it is advised to
upgrade or uninstall the outdated Emacspeak package.
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The value of
TeX-macro-global
is not determined during
configuration anymore but at load time of AUCTeX. Consequently the
associated configuration option ‘--with-tex-input-dirs’ was
removed.
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Support for the LaTeX Japanese classes ‘jsarticle’ and
‘jsbook’ was added.
News in 11.54
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The parser (used e.g. for
TeX-auto-generate-global
) was extended
to recognize keywords common in LaTeX packages and classes, like
“\DeclareRobustCommand” or “\RequirePackage”. Additionally a bug
was fixed which led to duplicate entries in AUCTeX style files.
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Folding can now be done for paragraphs and regions besides single
constructs and the whole buffer. With the new
TeX-fold-dwim
command content can both be hidden and shown with a single key binding.
In course of these changes new key bindings for unfolding commands where
introduced. The old bindings are still present but will be phased out
in future releases.
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Info files of the manual now have a .info extension.
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There is an experimental toolbar support now. It is not activated by
default. If you want to use it, add
| (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'LaTeX-install-toolbar)
|
to your init file.
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The manual now contains a new chapter “Quick Start”. It explains the
main features and how to use them, and should be enough for a new user
to start using AUCTeX.
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A new section “Font Locking” was added to the manual which explains
syntax highlighting in AUCTeX and its customization. Together with
the sections related to folding and outlining, the section is part of
the new chapter “Display”.
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Keywords for syntax highlighting of LaTeX constructs to be typeset in
bold, italic or typewriter fonts may now be customized. Besides the
built-in classes, new keyword classes may be added by customizing the
variable ‘font-latex-user-keyword-classes’. The customization
options can be found in the customization group
‘font-latex-keywords’.
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Verbatim content is now displayed with the ‘fixed-pitch’ face. (GNU
Emacs only)
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Syntax highlighting should not spill out of verbatim content
anymore. (GNU Emacs only)
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Verbatim commands like ‘\verb|...|’ will not be broken anymore
during filling.
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You can customize the completion for graphic files with
LaTeX-includegraphics-read-file
.
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Support for the LaTeX packages ‘url’, ‘listings’,
‘jurabib’ and ‘csquotes’ was added with regard to command
completion and syntax highlighting.
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Performance of fontification and filling was improved.
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Insertion of nodes in Texinfo mode now supports completion of existing
node names.
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Setting the variable
LaTeX-float
to nil
now means that you
will not be prompted for the float position of figures and tables. You
can get the old behaviour of nil
by setting the variable to
""
, i.e. an empty string. See also Floats.
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The XEmacs-specific bug concerning
overlays-at
was fixed.
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Lots of bug fixes.
News in 11.53
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The LaTeX math menu can include Unicode characters if your Emacs
built supports it. See the variable
LaTeX-math-menu-unicode
,
Entering Mathematics.
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Bug fixes for XEmacs.
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Completion for graphic files in the TeX search path has been added.
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start
is used for the viewer for MikTeX and fpTeX.
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The variable
TeX-fold-preserve-comments
can now be customized to
deactivate folding in comments.
News in 11.52
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Installation and menus under XEmacs work again (maybe for the first
time).
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Fontification of subscripts and superscripts is now disabled when the
fontification engine is not able to support it properly.
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Bug fixes in the build process.
News in 11.51
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PDFTeX and Source Special support did not work with ConTeXt,
this has been fixed. Similar for Source Special support under Windows.
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Omega support has been added.
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Bug fixes in the build process.
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TeX-fold
now supports folding of environments in Texinfo mode.
News in 11.50
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The use of source specials when processing or viewing the document can
now be controlled with the new
TeX-source-specials
minor mode
which can be toggled via an entry in the Command menu or the key binding
C-c C-t C-s. If you have customized the variable
TeX-command-list
, you have to re-initialize it for this to work.
This means to open a customization buffer for the variable by typing
M-x customize-variable RET TeX-command-list RET
, selecting
“Erase Customization” and do your customization again with the new
default.
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The content of the command menu now depends on the mode (plain TeX,
LaTeX, ConTeXt etc.). Any former customization of the variable
TeX-command-list
has to be erased. Otherwise the command menu
and the customization will not work correctly.
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Support for hiding and auto-revealing macros, e.g. footnotes or
citations, and environments in a buffer was added, Folding Macros and Environments.
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You can now control if indentation is done upon typing <RET> by
customizing the variable
TeX-newline-function
, Indenting.
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Limited support for
doc.sty
and ltxdoc.cls
(‘dtx’
files) was added. The new docTeX mode provides functionality for
editing documentation parts. This includes formatting (indenting and
filling), adding and completion of macros and environments while staying
in comments as well as syntax highlighting. (Please note that the mode
is not finished yet. For example syntax highlighting does not work yet
in XEmacs.)
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For macro completion in docTeX mode the AUCTeX style files
‘doc.el’, ‘ltxdoc.el’ and ‘ltx-base.el’ were included.
The latter provides general support for low-level LaTeX macros and
may be used with LaTeX class and style files as well. It is
currently not loaded automatically for those files.
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Support for ConTeXt with a separate ConTeXt mode is now included.
Macro definitions for completion are available in Dutch and English.
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The filling and indentation code was overhauled and is now able to
format commented parts of the source syntactically correct. Newly
available functionality and customization options are explained in the
manual.
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Filling and indentation in XEmacs with preview-latex and activated
previews lead to the insertion of whitespace before multi-line previews.
AUCTeX now contains facilities to prevent this problem.
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If
TeX-master
is set to t
, AUCTeX will now query for a
master file only when a new file is opened. Existing files will be left
alone. The new function TeX-master-file-ask
(bound to C-c
_ is provided for adding the variable manually.
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Sectioning commands are now shown in a larger font on display devices
which support such fontification. The variable
font-latex-title-fontify
can be customized to restore the old
appearance, i.e. the usage of a different color instead of a change in
size.
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Support for
alphanum.sty
, beamer.cls
, booktabs.sty
,
captcont.sty
, emp.sty
, paralist.sty
,
subfigure.sty
and units.sty
/nicefrac.sty
was added.
Credits go to the authors mentioned in the respective AUCTeX style
files.
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Inserting graphics with C-c RET \includegraphics RET was improved.
See the variable
LaTeX-includegraphics-options-alist
.
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If
LaTeX-default-position
is nil
, don’t prompt for
position arguments in Tabular-like environments, see Tabular-like.
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Completion for available packages when using C-c RET \usepackage
RET was improved on systems using the kpathsea library.
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The commenting functionality was fixed. The separate functions for
commenting and uncommenting were unified in one function for paragraphs
and regions respectively which do both.
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Syntax highlighting can be customized to fontify quotes delimited by
either >>German<< or <<French>> quotation marks by changing the variable
font-latex-quotes
.
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Certain TeX/LaTeX keywords for functions, references, variables
and warnings will now be fontified specially. You may add your own
keywords by customizing the variables
font-latex-match-function-keywords
,
font-latex-match-reference-keywords
,
font-latex-match-variable-keywords
and
font-latex-match-warning-keywords
.
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If you include the style files ‘german’ or ‘ngerman’ in a
document (directly or via the ‘babel’ package), you should now
customize
LaTeX-german-open-quote
,
LaTeX-german-close-quote
and
LaTeX-german-quote-after-quote
instead of TeX-open-quote
,
TeX-close-quote
and TeX-quote-after-quote
if you want to
influence the type of quote insertion.
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Upon viewing an output file, the right viewer and command line options
for it are now determined automatically by looking at the extension of
the output file and certain options used in the source file. The
behavior can be adapted or extended respectively by customizing the
variable
TeX-output-view-style
.
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You can control whether
TeX-insert-macro
(C-c RET) ask for
all optional arguments by customizing the variable
TeX-insert-macro-default-style
, Completion.
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TeX-run-discard
is now able to completely detach a process that
it started.
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The build process was enhanced and is now based on
autoconf
making installing AUCTeX a mostly automatic process. See
Installing AUCTeX and Installation under MS Windows for details.
News in 11.14
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Many more LaTeX and LaTeX2e commands are supported.
Done by Masayuki Ataka <ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp>
News in 11.12
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Support for the KOMA-Script classes.
Contributed by Mark Trettin <Mark.Trettin@gmx.de>.
News in 11.11
News in 11.10
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comment-region
now inserts %% by default.
Suggested by "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org>.
News in 11.06
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You can now switch between using the ‘font-latex’ (all emacsen),
the ‘tex-font’ (Emacs 21 only) or no special package for font
locking. Customize
TeX-install-font-lock
for this.
News in 11.04
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Now use -t landscape by default when landscape option appears.
Suggested by Erik Frisk <frisk@isy.liu.se>.
News in 11.03
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Use ‘tex-fptex.el’ for fpTeX support.
Contributed by Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr>.
News in 11.02
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New user option
LaTeX-top-caption-list
specifies environments
where the caption should go at top.
Contributed by ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka).
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Allow explicit dimensions in ‘graphicx.sty’.
Contributed by ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka).
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Limited support for ‘verbatim.sty’.
Contributed by ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka).
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Better support for asmmath items.
Patch by ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka).
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More accurate error parsing.
Added by David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>.
News in 11.01
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