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Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:06:06 +0100 |
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On 2018-02-12, at 05:34, N. Raghavendra <nyraghu27132@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 2018-02-10T20:47:48+01:00, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> I was asked by one of the editors of TUGboat (the journal of the TeX
>> Users' Group) to write an article about using Emacs for TeX. I am now
>> in the process of writing this paper. My idea is to first explain the
>> basic concepts of Emacs, and then proceed to AUCTeX and various ways of
>> customizing Emacs.
>
> In my experience AUCTeX is best suited for editing LaTeX documents, and
> less so for documents using other TeX macros such as plain TeX, or
> ConTeXt, although it has some support for them. Perhaps this could be
> pointed out as a caveat when you mention AUCTeX, especially since
> TUGboat is widely read by users of such TeX macros.
Very good point, thanks! I am aware of it, but I probably wouldn't
remember to put that info in.
> You may also want to mention RefTeX as another remarkably useful Emacs
> package, which plugs into AUCTeX seamlessly. It handles multi-file
> LaTeX documents that use the `xr' package. It can also be used with
> other TeX macros such as ConTeXt.
I'll mention it, though I'm not using it myself. (It doesn't work with
amsrefs. Some day I'll fix that...)
> Many people seem to use CDLaTeX too for inserting LaTeX environments and
> such. Simlarly, Yasnippet. More such Emacs packages are described at
> EmacsWiki, https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaTeX
>
> Another very nice tool is the Emacs BibTeX mode, which is described in
> an article by Stefan Schoef,
> http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html
Thanks for all your inputs!
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Marcin Borkowski
Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat, N. Raghavendra, 2018/02/11
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