Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2018-02-12, at 05:34, N. Raghavendra <nyraghu27132@gmail.com> wrote:

> At 2018-02-10T20:47:48+01:00, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> I was asked by one of the editors of TUGboat (the journal of the TeX
>> Users' Group) to write an article about using Emacs for TeX.  I am now
>> in the process of writing this paper.  My idea is to first explain the
>> basic concepts of Emacs, and then proceed to AUCTeX and various ways of
>> customizing Emacs.
>
> In my experience AUCTeX is best suited for editing LaTeX documents, and
> less so for documents using other TeX macros such as plain TeX, or
> ConTeXt, although it has some support for them.  Perhaps this could be
> pointed out as a caveat when you mention AUCTeX, especially since
> TUGboat is widely read by users of such TeX macros.

Very good point, thanks!  I am aware of it, but I probably wouldn't
remember to put that info in.

> You may also want to mention RefTeX as another remarkably useful Emacs
> package, which plugs into AUCTeX seamlessly.  It handles multi-file
> LaTeX documents that use the `xr' package.  It can also be used with
> other TeX macros such as ConTeXt.

I'll mention it, though I'm not using it myself.  (It doesn't work with
amsrefs.  Some day I'll fix that...)

> Many people seem to use CDLaTeX too for inserting LaTeX environments and
> such.  Simlarly, Yasnippet.  More such Emacs packages are described at
> EmacsWiki, https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaTeX
>
> Another very nice tool is the Emacs BibTeX mode, which is described in
> an article by Stefan Schoef,
> http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html

Thanks for all your inputs!

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Marcin Borkowski