From: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: x-symbol?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:36:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxun8nwr.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqzka40a.fsf@padme.localdomain>
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:50:45 +0200, m_mommer@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the things I use emacs for is writing LaTeX documents, and
> besides auctex and reftex, there is one package that is very important
> and useful to me: x-symbol. The bad news is that the package has been
> orphaned some while ago, and is suffering from bitrot. This is really
> unfortunate, because x-symbol has two features that I have not found
> anywhere else: an input method based on shortcuts and modifiers for
> quite a few latex symbols, and optic sugar for many symbols, so that
> e.g. \alpha appear as the greek letter alpha on screen. For some reason,
> I find these two features really help a lot.
>
> My questions are:
>
> - does anyone have a version of x-symbol that runs on emacs 23 and is
> willing to share it here?
>
> - Does anyone know of an alternative?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mario
I believe that CDlatex mode does everything that x-symbol did and much
more in fact.
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).
HTH,
eric
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-21 13:50 x-symbol? Mario S. Mommer
2010-06-22 8:36 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2010-06-23 8:00 ` x-symbol? Mario S. Mommer
2010-06-22 9:06 ` x-symbol? David Kastrup
2010-06-23 7:49 ` x-symbol? Mario S. Mommer
2010-06-23 12:10 ` x-symbol? David Kastrup
[not found] ` <87bpb3idsr.fsf@fh-trier.de>
2010-06-23 7:54 ` x-symbol? Mario S. Mommer
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