Re: Updating CONSTANTS in LaTeX mode

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 11, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Seweryn wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to have locally defined CONSTANTS in .tex buffer?  
>> What is the
>> command to update the list of known CONSTANTS since $pi works but I  
>> cannot
>> insert $x to the list of CONSTANTS. See example below
>>
>> \begin{comment}
>> #+CONSTANTS: x=458.0
>> #+ORGTBL: SEND test1 orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :lend ""
>> | 3.1415927 | #ERROR |
>> #+TBLFM: @1$1=$pi::@1$2=$x
>> % $
>> \end{comment}
>>
>> I would appreciate a hint.
>
> This works for me.  Put you must do `C-c C-c' in the CONSTANTS line
> to make changes known to Org-mode.  Or kill the buffer and revisit  
> the file,
> that will also make CONSTANTS known.
>

I am sorry, I did not read this carefully.  No, this is currently
not possible in tex and other non-org-mode files.

- Carsten