Re: [AUCTeX] Meaning of AUCTeX and Master file

[Ralf Angeli]

* Giancarlo Bassi (2006-04-23) writes:

> 1) what's the meaning of the short AUCTeX

The "AUC" part stands for Aalborg Universitetscenter and the "TeX"
part, well, for TeX.

> 2) what's the Master file which should be handled with installation LISP
>     statement, as follows:
>
>     If  you  want  to  make  AUCTeX  aware  of  style files and multi-file
>     documents right away, insert the following in your .emacs file.
>       (setq TeX-auto-save t)
>       (setq TeX-parse-self t)
>       (setq-default TeX-master nil)

That's the top-level file of a multi-file LaTeX document.  It's the
file one would supply as an argument to the latex executable when
compiling from the command line.  If your LaTeX document consists of
only a single file then it is this very file.

See also (info "(auctex)Multifile") <-- Type `C-x C-e' here.

-- 
Ralf