From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: m_mommer@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: x-symbol? Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:00:53 +0200 Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <87mxumi3ey.fsf@padme.localdomain> References: <87pqzka40a.fsf@padme.localdomain> <87mxun8nwr.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291944855 4748 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 01:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:34:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 02:34:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQrsA-0002Sl-Hw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:34:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55835 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQrs9-0001BU-UZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:34:10 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: e179054043.adsl.alicedsl.de Original-X-Trace: news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de 1277280053 27913 85.179.54.43 (23 Jun 2010 08:00:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jun 2010 08:00:53 GMT Smtp: iwr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hi5e32eVfG/fQvBNz+5udWHXIDg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179201 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:05 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77138 Archived-At: Hi, Eric S Fraga writes: > I believe that CDlatex mode does everything that x-symbol did and much > more in fact. That might well be. I didn't know about it, although i did search for alternatives. Thanks. > for the sugar, I don't know what to suggest for direct latex/tex code > but I can recommend you use org-mode for composing your text instead > and export to latex when required... org-mode provides the display > sugar you wish (and much more). Do you have any pointers? In particular regarding the display sugar. Can you preview the formulas to some extent? I have been somewhat reluctant to try to write an article in org mode, because it seems to me that the setups end up being very hairy and brittle. I have not tried it, though. Regards, and thanks, Mario