Re: [AUCTeX] Formatting and syntax highlighting

[David Kastrup]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a couple of questions regarding syntax highlighting and
> formatting in AUCTeX.
>
> 1. I sometimes use a math environment defined with \newenvironment
> that just opens an eqnarray and changes the spacing. I'd like AUCTeX
> to recognize this as a math environment and change the syntax
> highlighting accordingly. How can I do this? I couldn't find any
> information in the documentation.

Probably not worth the trouble.  For most of mathematics, you are much
better off using the amsmath package (which AUCTeX supports): use

texdoc amsldoc

to learn about it.

> 2. Is there any way to enhance syntax highlighting in math mode? I'd
> like to have normal text and greek character macros in one color and
> other macros (like \sqrt, etc.) as well as maybe symbols (as "+") in
> another color because I think that would make it easier to read.
>
> 3. Is there any way to have a better way of formatting formulas with
> LaTeX-fill-environment? For example if I have a multiline
> align-environment I'd like to have a line break after each "\\" and
> if a line break needs to be inserted anywhere else I'd like to have
> some indentation like this:
>
> &= [some terms]
>       [some more terms] \\
> &= [next term]
>
> 4. Can I fold blocks of comments? This would be handy because sometimes
> I comment out large blocks that I might want to activate again later.
> But for the moment it would make reading the document easier if I could
> comment them out.

Maybe someone else has an idea about those.

> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 on Windows XP
> AUCTeX 11.82


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