Robert Knighten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > The above line is _not_ correct. If that does not _immediately_ break > > AUCTeX, it is likely that you have an old tex-site.el from a previous > > installation in your path. Please use > > > > M-x list-load-path-shadows RET > > > > to make sure that this is not the case. > > That did not indicate an old tex-site.el as the problem, but in > looking at my setup it was sufficiently untidy that I simply removed > all of the AUCTeX code and reinstalled. That appears to have solved > the problem so I expect I had an old version masquerading as the > current version.
Ah, ok. > Thank you very much for your help. > > > > I am not using preview-latex. > > > > Incidentally, preview-latex does not affect editing performance > > at all since it does not require processor power between explicit > > invocations by key or menu. If you are creating a mathematics > > text book, you should really give it a whirl. That's pretty much > > the application it has been created for. > > That was my understanding and I'm glad to hear it verified. I tried > preview-latex once long ago and found it unsatisfying for reasons I > cannot even remember. So I settled into a satisfactory mode and > simply haven't tried it since. I will try it again. There probably have been quite a few improvements since "long ago", mostly in the performance area, but it also can now deal with PDFLaTeX and make judicious use of dvipng if available (mostly a performance thing). We also made a number of changes to AUCTeX's filling code that tend to keep linebreaks out of preview material: this leads to considerable improvements in the resulting buffer display in particular with inline math. Apart from that, I don't think the user interface changed much, though. Still, trying it does not require any commitment (like working with LyX would): you can use it on any document or parts without any net change on the document itself. > This somehow reminds me of another niggling question I have. Is there any > convenience function in AUCTex to insert a displaymath abbreviation pair? > By this I mean > \[ > > \] > > Right now I have a trivial function that does that, but I would > really like some of the capability available with LaTeX-environment > using the displaymath argument. Most especially I would like to be > able to use the function on a region and get the brackets > automatically surrounding the region. Personally, I don't use those shorthands but the equation* environment from amsmath instead. Perhaps we should have the environment insertion commands also accept matched stuff like \[ \], \left...\right, or revert to C-c C-e-like behavior for TeX-insert-macro on such matched constructs. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
