Re: cdlatex-mode in emacs

[uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>]

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On Thursday, August 25th, 2022 at 3:58 PM, <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:


> 
> On 25/08/2022 17:03, uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me wrote:
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> > ------- Original Message -------
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> > > The file seems well organized to me, the code is grouped according to
> > > the provided features. That's a lot easier to use and manage than having
> > > to modify n files at exactly the right place anytime one wants to add a
> > > new feature.
> > > 
> > > Most of the contents is common concepts, with little bits of
> > > instantiation here and there. And a lot of the language-specific content
> > > (in terms of lines of code) is documentation rather than code. Again,
> > > that's because tex- and latex- mode do not attempt to implement more
> > > than basic support for latex files.
> > > 
> > > In any case it is a concern for developers, not users. Do you have
> > > changes that you would like to include in tex-mode.el, but can't because
> > > of the current file structure?
> > 
> > One feature I did include in my implementation for tex-mode is to highlight
> > tex commands such as "\sqrt", "\omega" and the rest. But the starting "\"
> > is not highlighted in order to distinguish different components such as in
> > "\alpha\beta" and "\sin\omega_k".
> 
> 
> This sounds like a feature which would be common to all tex flavours, and therefore be easy to integrate in the current code base, no?

Correct.  It can be done as follows

(defface texmark-colour

  '( (default :inherit bold)

     ( ((class color) (background light)) :foreground "#00FF00" )

     ( ((class color) (background dark))  :foreground "#00FF00" )

     (t :inherit font-lock-builtin-face) )

  "User defined colour typeface for tex command keywords.")

(defconst texmark-cluster

  `(
    
    (,(rx "\\" word-start (group (or "alpha" "beta" "chi" "delta"

          "Delta" "epsilon" "varepsilon" "eta" "gamma" "Gamma" "iota"))

	  word-end)

     (1 'texmark-colour))

and so on
 
Finally doing

(defun texmark-typeface-enable ()

  "Sets the highlight colour for tex commands."

  (font-lock-add-keywords nil texmark-cluster t)

  (font-lock-flush))



> > cdlatex would also be useful for use with texinfo-mode, particularly now that
> > texinfo uses mathjax.
> 
> 
> cdlatex is a minor mode, so you can activate it in texinfo-mode buffers. Do you run into problems when you do that?
> (Some languages do expect different markup than latex, leading to wrapper packages like org-cdlatex. I don't know texinfo, but I seem to remember that cdlatex supports \( \) as math delimiters, which should be useful for mathjax.)

There can be certain instances where cdlatex might not work for certain environments.  I think that cdlatex
looks at the math context, and if it not as expected, the commands do nothing.  Se really it is not so general
as it ought to be.