Re: LaTeX Keybindings for Math Symbols

["Ryan Krauss" <ryanlists@gmail.com>]

Thanks.  I had stumbled across that.

Is there a reason that the auctex menu doesn't have a \begin{equation}
option?  What is \begin{math}?

Thanks,

Ryan

On 4/27/06, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27 2006, Ryan Krauss wrote:
>
> > I would like to create Latex keybindings for math symbols (or find out
> > what they are if they already exist).  For example, in Vim I used to
> > have mappings for `t -> \tau so that typing ` and then a english
> > character would insert the Latex math code for the corresponding greek
> > symbol (`a would insert \alpha and `b would insert \beta ...).
>
> In case you use AUCTeX:
>
> ,----[ (info "(auctex)Mathematics") ]
> | 5.1 Entering Mathematics
> | ========================
> |
> | TeX is written by a mathematician, and has always contained good
> | support for formatting mathematical text.  AUCTeX supports this
> | tradition, by offering a special minor mode for entering text with many
> | mathematical symbols.  You can enter this mode by typing `C-c ~'.
> |
> |  -- Command: LaTeX-math-mode
> |      (`C-c ~') Toggle LaTeX-math-mode.  This is a minor mode rebinding
> |      the key `LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix' to allow easy typing of
> |      mathematical symbols.  ``' will read a character from the keyboard,
> |      and insert the symbol as specified in `LaTeX-math-list'.  If given
> |      a prefix argument, the symbol will be surrounded by dollar signs.
> |
> |    You can use another prefix key (instead of ``') by  setting the
> | variable `LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix'.
> |
> |    To enable LaTeX-math-mode by default, add the following in your
> | `.emacs' file:
> |      (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'LaTeX-math-mode)
> `----
>
> Bye, Reiner.
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