From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: x-symbol? Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:36:04 +0100 Organization: University College London Message-ID: <87mxun8nwr.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87pqzka40a.fsf@padme.localdomain> Reply-To: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart_Tue_Jun_22_09:36:04_2010-1" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291845215 15295 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:53:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 22:53:31 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 1PQRx4-0006zC-Jr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:53:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQRx3-0004iZ-Kl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:53:29 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!ucl.ac.uk!lobo.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-86-73.eduroam.ucl.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: uns-a.ucl.ac.uk 1277198008 229404 144.82.86.73 (22 Jun 2010 09:13:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ucl.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:13:28 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87pqzka40a.fsf@padme.localdomain> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/23.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179161 X-Originally-To: m_mommer@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) 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:76084 Archived-At: --Multipart_Tue_Jun_22_09:36:04_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 --Multipart_Tue_Jun_22_09:36:04_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D --Multipart_Tue_Jun_22_09:36:04_2010-1--