Now also the precompiled AUCTeX 11.88 package for Emacs 24.4 on Windows is available. I hope it'll work, there have been some changes into the Emacs package for Windows (starting from the name itself of the archive).
I remember AUCTeX 11.88 is also available via GNU ELPA, which may be easier to install and you'll also receive some bug fixes. Bye, Mosè 2014-10-31 21:13 GMT+01:00 Mosè Giordano <[email protected]>: > Release notes for AUCTeX 11.88 with preview-latex > ================================================= > > AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated > environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with > Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and > others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring > solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX > distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax > highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in > the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent > indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of > graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source > buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. > > One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' > file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is > available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] > > AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: > documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, > sleuth work, testing. > > > New features and fixed bugs in this release > ------------------------------------------- > > 'TeX-PDF-mode' is now enabled by default. > > Now 'TeX-previous-error' works with TeX commands if the new option > 'TeX-parse-all-errors' is non-nil, which is the default. When this > option is non-nil, an overview of errors and warnings reported by the > TeX compiler can be opened with 'M-x TeX-error-overview <RET>'. > > Style file authors are encouraged to distinguish common from expert > macros and environments, and mark the latter using > 'TeX-declare-expert-macros' and 'LaTeX-declare-expert-environments'. > Users can then restrict completion using > 'TeX-complete-expert-commands'. > > Management of LaTeX package options in the parser was improved. You > might need to reparse your documents, especially if you loaded the > 'babel' package with language options. > > Now you can insert '$...$' or '\(...\)' by typing a single '$'. To do > this, customize the new option 'TeX-electric-math'. > 'TeX-math-close-double-dollar' was removed. > > 'C-c <RET> documentclass <RET>' completes with all available LaTeX > classes, if the 'TeX-arg-input-file-search' variable is non-nil. > Completion for class options of the standard LaTeX classes is provided > as well. > > New user options 'LaTeX-default-author', > 'LaTeX-fontspec-arg-font-search', 'LaTeX-fontspec-font-list-default', > 'TeX-date-format', and 'TeX-insert-braces-alist'. A new possible value > ('show-all-optional-args') for 'TeX-insert-macro-default-style' was > added. The default value of 'TeX-source-correlate-method' has been > changed. > > 'biblatex' support was greatly expanded. If parsing is enabled, AUCTeX > looks at 'backend' option to decide whether to use Biber or BibTeX. The > 'LaTeX-biblatex-use-Biber' variable was changed to be file local only > and is no more customizable. > > With some LaTeX classes, the default environment suggested by > 'LaTeX-environment' ('C-c C-e') when the current environment is > 'document' was changed. With 'beamer' class the default environment is > 'frame', with 'letter' it is 'letter', with 'slides' it is 'slide'. > > Brace pairing feature was enhanced in LaTeX documents. Support for > '\bigl', '\Bigl', '\biggl' and '\Biggl', the same as the one for > '\left', was added to 'TeX-insert-macro'. For example, 'C-c <RET> bigl > <RET> ( <RET>' inserts '\bigl(\bigr)'. > > You can insert brace pair '()', '{}' and '[]' by typing a single left > brace if the new user option 'LaTeX-electric-left-right-brace' is > enabled. > > Macros '\langle', '\lfloor' and '\lceil', which produce the left part > of the paired braces, are treated similarly as '(', '{' and '[' during > the course of 'TeX-insert-macro'. > > Support for dozens of LaTeX packages was added. > > Tabular-like environments (tabular, tabular*, tabularx, tabulary, > array, align, ...) are indented in a nicer and more informative way > when the column values of a table line are written across multiple > lines in the tex file. > > The suitable number of ampersands are inserted when you insert array, > tabular and tabular* environments with 'C-c C-e'. Similar experience > is obtained if you terminate rows in these environments with 'C-c > <LFD>'. It supplies line break macro '\\' and inserts the suitable > number of ampersands on the next line. Similar supports are provided > for various amsmath environments. > > Commands for narrowing to a group ('TeX-narrow-to-group') and to LaTeX > environments ('LaTeX-narrow-to-environment') were added. > > Now arbitrary options can be passed to the TeX processor on a per file > basis using the 'TeX-command-extra-options' option. > > Now 'C-c C-e document <RET>', in an empty document, prompts for > '\usepackage' macros in addition to '\documentclass'. > > 'TeX-add-style-hook' has now a third argument to tell AUCTeX for which > dialect (LaTeX, Texinfo or BibTeX) the style hook is registers. > Labelling style hook by dialect will avoid applying them not in the > right context. > > There have been lots of bug fixes and feature additions. > > Requirements > ------------ > > It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. > XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package > (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer > for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for > upgrading if necessary. > > The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available > with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], Mac OS > X (Carbon, Cocoa)[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support, at least version > 22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 and later is the recommended > platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in > version 21.4.10 or later. > > You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. > dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later), a very fast DVI converter, can be > used to speed up the conversion. > > Availability > ------------ > > AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from > <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the > source tarball, a precompiled version for Emacs on Windows, and a > platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install > yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing > the previous version of AUCTeX). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of > course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX or a > software package management system for your operating system which > provides you with the latest release. > > The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is > usually more recent than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and > as part of the Sumo tarball. > > A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the > tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. > The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. > AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. > > You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX > <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list > addresses. > > > Future development and additional information > --------------------------------------------- > > AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of > merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to > assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual > procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past > contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done > so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find > and ask the rest. > > Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to > <URL:mailto:[email protected]> would be appreciated in order to > compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX > at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the > developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks > remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. > > The following people contributed to this release series (in > alphabetical order): Ivan Andrus, Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Fabrice > Ben Hamouda, Thomas Baumann, Vincent Belaïche, Berend de Boer, Ken > Brown, Joshua Buhl, Patrice Dumas, Werner Fink, Miguel Frasson, Peter > S. Galbraith, Mosè Giordano, Patrick Gundlach, Jobst Hoffmann, Tassilo > Horn, Yvon Hevel, Mads Jensen, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi > Keita, Philip Kime, Oleh Krehel, Joost Kremers, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke > Larsson, Matthew Leach, Antoine Levitt, Leo Liu, Vladimir Lomov, Stefan > Monnier, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Nicolas Richard, Augusto > Ritter Stoffel, Florent Rougon, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Rüdiger > Sonderfeld, Holger Sparr, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian > Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we > forgot somebody.) > > Footnotes: > > [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> > > [2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs for Windows at > <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/>. > > [3] See e.g. <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForMacOS> > for a list of precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X. > > [4] dvipng is available via its project page > <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. > > -- > Mosè Giordano, on behalf of the AUCTeX team > > _______________________________________________ > info-auctex mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-auctex _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
