AucTeX: shortcut for a font-specifier

AucTeX: shortcut for a font-specifier

[Dani Martí]

Hi everybody,

I would like to define a shortcut to insert a '\textcolor{color}{text}'
in my LaTeX document with 'color' package, in the same we can easily
insert standard font specifiers like '\emph{text}' just by typing `C-c
C-f C-e'. In other words, how to implement this?

        `C-c C-f C-a'  should insert \textcolor{}{} and ask you the
                       color and text with which to fill the two
                       arguments. 
                       [Of course, the shortcut `C-c C-f C-a' may be
                       different, as long as it is not already defined] 
           
The only difference is that \textcolor has two arguments instead of two,
but I think this may be easy to implement by a lisp expert.

Bells & Whistles: it would be nice to have auto-completion when you are
being asked for a color (1st argument). The colors could be the standard
68 colors known to dvips: GreenYellow, Yellow, Goldenrod, Dandelion...


Thanks a lot in advance,


Dani Marti

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Re: AucTeX: shortcut for a font-specifier

[Kai Großjohann]

Dani Martí <dmarti@NOSPAMifae.es> writes:

> I would like to define a shortcut to insert a '\textcolor{color}{text}'
> in my LaTeX document with 'color' package, in the same we can easily
> insert standard font specifiers like '\emph{text}' just by typing `C-c
> C-f C-e'. In other words, how to implement this?

See the variable TeX-font-list.  But that doesn't support prompts out
of the box.  Dunno how to do that.  Maybe you have to use the macro
insertion support for that.  (C-c C-m textcolor RET will insert that
macro, if AUC-TeX knows about it.  You can use completion to enter
the macro name.  Maybe that's sufficient?)

kai
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Re: AucTeX: shortcut for a font-specifier

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Sep 10 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Dani Martí <dmarti@NOSPAMifae.es> writes:
>
>> I would like to define a shortcut to insert a '\textcolor{color}{text}'
>> in my LaTeX document with 'color' package, in the same we can easily
>> insert standard font specifiers like '\emph{text}' just by typing `C-c
>> C-f C-e'. In other words, how to implement this?
>
> See the variable TeX-font-list.  

Isn't it LaTeX-font-list from `latex.el'?

(eval-after-load "latex"
  '(add-to-list 'LaTeX-font-list
		(quote (15 "\\textcolor{" "}{}"))))

`C-c C-f C-o' inserts "\textcolor{}{}" (cursor in the first pair of
brackets). But no completion for the colors.

It would be nice to update the menus too (LaTeX / Insert Font, LaTeX /
Change Font, ...). I don't know what is the best way to achieve this.

Bye, Reiner.
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