From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:06:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87sha57zn5.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87tvuo4oez.fsf@mbork.pl> <87bmguakse.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518530798 910 195.159.176.226 (13 Feb 2018 14:06:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:06:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "N. Raghavendra" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 15:06:34 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1elbDn-00074X-9f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:06:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbFn-0000Xc-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:08:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53987) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbDs-00088g-CE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:06:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbDo-0001m6-Bx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:06:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:43788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbDo-0001lt-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:06:12 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF7AE68C5; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:06:11 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Kba1s7ZwQT30; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:06:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (apn-31-1-171-82.dynamic.gprs.plus.pl [31.1.171.82]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3FE5CE6870; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:06:08 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <87bmguakse.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115973 Archived-At: On 2018-02-12, at 05:34, N. Raghavendra 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! -- Marcin Borkowski