Hi, This problem sorted itself out when I cleaned out all the auxiliary files....:) Sorry for the noise
--George Nurser On 5 August 2010 22:39, George Nurser <[email protected]> wrote: > I've reposted this from the help gnu-emacs list. > > Hi, > I'm running Aquamacs 2.1. I have a directory > /Users/agn/Library/texmf/tex/latex that contains my personal style files. > > In particular /Users/agn/Library/texmf/tex/latex/my > styles/math_abbrev.sty contains some macros to simplify inputting > maths > > I was hoping to get AucTeX to recognize these macros so command > completion with M-TAB and C-c RET works on them. > > Section 11.2 of the AucTeX manual (v11.86) seems to explain how to do > this, but I must be missing something. > It suggests I do > M-x TeX-auto-generate > > When I do this, it suggests various directories; first > ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/ then (after uparrow) it offers individual > style files > ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/my styles/head_bolus.sty > I truncated this to > ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/ > and then Emacs created a whole load of .el files (one for each .sty > files) in the directory > /Users/agn/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/auctex/auto > > Autocompletion now works perfectly for self-sufficient files…:) > > However, my problem is that the files I want to use macros in are > chapters, [chapter1.tex ..2,tex etc..] > and are included in a file master.tex. It is master.tex that does > \usepackage{mystyle}, so there is no explicit mention of mystyle in > the chapter file chaptern.tex. > > From my reading of the AucTeX manual, I added > % Local Variables: > % TeX-master: "../../master.tex" > % End: > > in my file chaptern.tex > > This seems to have worked so far as > (i) C-h v TeX-master in chaptern.tex gives > TeX-master is a variable defined in `tex.el'. > Its value is > "../../master.tex" > Local in buffer Chap_NEU.tex; global value is t > > (ii) C-c C-c in chaptern.tex now applies commands to ../../master.tex > I hadn't previously realized that this was possible:) > > However, macro completion in chaptern.tex still does not know about > the commands defined in /Users/agn/Library/texmf/tex/latex/my > styles/mystyle.sty. > Nor are the AMSmath environments like align, usepackaged in > ../../master.tex, available from AucTeX in chaptern.tex.... > > Clearly I'm still missing something. Or is there something I can do to > debug the problem? > > Many thanks for your help, George Nurser. > _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
