Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX indentation does not work

[Kurt Gibson]

Dirk and Ralf:

Thanks for the help.  I am getting it ... sort of.  I like the  
indentation features of Textwrangler (macos) (GUI) and I want the  
features of outline mode AUCTeX.  Perhaps I do not need the  
indentation features because the outline-collapsing features of  
AUCTeX with outline-minor-mode lets me easily see my document structure.

Two questions.

First:  In normal outline mode, you can issue the command to collapse  
to a certain levels, eg collapse all headers except for the top 2  
levels.  Can this be done in AUCTeX with outline minor mode?  In  
outline mode, I thought it was c-u 2 c-c c-q for the top two levels.   
In AUCTeX with outline minor mode, c-c c-q is undefined.  c-c @ c-t  
(hide-body) apparently does not accept arguments.

Second:  M-x hide-body produces:

\begin{document}...
\section{section1}...
\subsection{subsection1.1}...
\section{section2}...
\subsection{subsection2.1}...
\section{section3}...
\subsection{subsection3.1}...
\end{document}...

The following is easier to read.

begin{document}...
  \section{section1}...
    \subsection{subsection1.1}...
  \section{section2}...
    \subsection{subsection2.1}...
  \section{section3}...
    \subsection{subsection3.1}...
\end{document}

Can this be done easily without writing a lisp program (which I  
cannot do)?

Kurt


On 2010 Jan 03, at 18:25:59, Gibson Kurt wrote:

> Ralf:
>
> BTW, emacs C-h v LaTeX-indent-level reports the following:
>
>
> LaTeX-indent-level is a variable defined in `/sw/share/emacs22/site- 
> lisp/auctex/latex.elc'.
> Its value is 2
>
>
> Documentation:
> *Indentation of begin-end blocks in LaTeX.
>
> You can customize this variable.
>
>
>
> --------
>
> Therefore, it appears to be set to the default.
>
>
>
> Kurt
>
>
> On 2010 Jan 03, at 16:20:00, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
> > * Gibson Kurt (2010-01-03) writes:
> >
> > > I am new to AUCTeX and after several hours of research cannot get it
> > > to indent paragraphs on my system.  It is worthless if it will not
> > > indent for me.  What purpose does it serve if it will not even allow
> > > someone to indent code manually?  TAB does not even work so I could
> > > not even use it to indent manually.
> >
> > Your understanding of "indentation" likely differs from the semantics
> > associated with it in the context of Emacs (especially programming
> > modes) and therefore also AUCTeX.  Here it refers to the insertion of
> > whitespace at the beginning of one or more lines and (now comes the
> > important part) the amount of whitespace is determined according to
> > syntactic structures.  So typing <TAB> will indent according to those
> > structures and not just insert a tab character.
> >
> > Here is the respective information from the AUCTeX manual:
> >
> > ,----[ (info "(auctex)Indenting") ]
> > |    Indentation is done by LaTeX environments and by TeX groups,  
> > that is
> > | the body of an environment is indented by the value of
> > | `LaTeX-indent-level' (default 2).
> > `----
> >
> > So it will only add whitespace if your text is in a TeX group,
> > i.e. {...}, or an environment, i.e. \begin{<env>}...\end{<env>} (with
> > the exception of the document environment).
> >
> > If you want to add a literal tab character, you can use `C-q <TAB>'.
> >
> > More info on indentation can also be found in the Emacs manual. (See
> > (info "(emacs)Indentation") <-- Type `C-x C-e' here)
> >
> > --
> > Ralf