AUCTeX

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.88 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. ... [More] Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- 'TeX-PDF-mode' is now enabled by default. Now 'TeX-previous-error' works with TeX commands if the new option 'TeX-parse-all-errors' is non-nil, which is the default. When this option is non-nil, an overview of errors and warnings reported by the TeX compiler can be opened with 'M-x TeX-error-overview <RET>'. Style file authors are encouraged to distinguish common from expert macros and environments, and mark the latter using 'TeX-declare-expert-macros' and 'LaTeX-declare-expert-environments'. Users can then restrict completion using 'TeX-complete-expert-commands'. Management of LaTeX package options in the parser was improved. You might need to reparse your documents, especially if you loaded the 'babel' package with language options. Now you can insert '$...$' or '\(...\)' by typing a single '$'. To do this, customize the new option 'TeX-electric-math'. 'TeX-math-close-double-dollar' was removed. 'C-c <RET> documentclass <RET>' completes with all available LaTeX classes, if the 'TeX-arg-input-file-search' variable is non-nil. Completion for class options of the standard LaTeX classes is provided as well. New user options 'LaTeX-default-author', 'LaTeX-fontspec-arg-font-search', 'LaTeX-fontspec-font-list-default', 'TeX-date-format', and 'TeX-insert-braces-alist'. A new possible value ('show-all-optional-args') for 'TeX-insert-macro-default-style' was added. The default value of 'TeX-source-correlate-method' has been changed. 'biblatex' support was greatly expanded. If parsing is enabled, AUCTeX looks at 'backend' option to decide whether to use Biber or BibTeX. The 'LaTeX-biblatex-use-Biber' variable was changed to be file local only and is no more customizable. With some LaTeX classes, the default environment suggested by 'LaTeX-environment' ('C-c C-e') when the current environment is 'document' was changed. With 'beamer' class the default environment is 'frame', with 'letter' it is 'letter', with 'slides' it is 'slide'. Brace pairing feature was enhanced in LaTeX documents. Support for '\bigl', '\Bigl', '\biggl' and '\Biggl', the same as the one for '\left', was added to 'TeX-insert-macro'. For example, 'C-c <RET> bigl <RET> ( <RET>' inserts '\bigl(\bigr)'. You can insert brace pair '()', '{}' and '[]' by typing a single left brace if the new user option 'LaTeX-electric-left-right-brace' is enabled. Macros '\langle', '\lfloor' and '\lceil', which produce the left part of the paired braces, are treated similarly as '(', '{' and '[' during the course of 'TeX-insert-macro'. Support for dozens of LaTeX packages was added. Tabular-like environments (tabular, tabular*, tabularx, tabulary, array, align, ...) are indented in a nicer and more informative way when the column values of a table line are written across multiple lines in the tex file. The suitable number of ampersands are inserted when you insert array, tabular and tabular* environments with 'C-c C-e'. Similar experience is obtained if you terminate rows in these environments with 'C-c <LFD>'. It supplies line break macro '\\' and inserts the suitable number of ampersands on the next line. Similar supports are provided for various amsmath environments. Commands for narrowing to a group ('TeX-narrow-to-group') and to LaTeX environments ('LaTeX-narrow-to-environment') were added. Now arbitrary options can be passed to the TeX processor on a per file basis using the 'TeX-command-extra-options' option. Now 'C-c C-e document <RET>', in an empty document, prompts for '\usepackage' macros in addition to '\documentclass'. 'TeX-add-style-hook' has now a third argument to tell AUCTeX for which dialect (LaTeX, Texinfo or BibTeX) the style hook is registers. Labelling style hook by dialect will avoid applying them not in the right context. There have been lots of bug fixes and feature additions. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], Mac OS X (Carbon, Cocoa)[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support, at least version 22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 and later is the recommended platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later), a very fast DVI converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the source tarball, a precompiled version for Emacs on Windows, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX or a software package management system for your operating system which provides you with the latest release. The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to <URL:mailto:auctex< at >gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ivan Andrus, Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Fabrice Ben Hamouda, Thomas Baumann, Vincent Belaïche, Berend de Boer, Ken Brown, Joshua Buhl, Patrice Dumas, Werner Fink, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Mosè Giordano, Patrick Gundlach, Jobst Hoffmann, Tassilo Horn, Yvon Hevel, Mads Jensen, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Philip Kime, Oleh Krehel, Joost Kremers, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Matthew Leach, Antoine Levitt, Leo Liu, Vladimir Lomov, Stefan Monnier, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Nicolas Richard, Augusto Ritter Stoffel, Florent Rougon, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Rüdiger Sonderfeld, Holger Sparr, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> [2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs for Windows at <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/>. [3] See e.g. <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForMacOS> for a list of precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X. [4] dvipng is available via its project page <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. -- Mosè Giordano, on behalf of the AUCTeX team _______________________________________________ info-auctex mailing list info-auctex< at >gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-auctex [Less]

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.87 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. ... [More] Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- AUCTeX now supports Biber in conjunction with biblatex in addition to BibTeX. Each AUCTeX mode now has its own abbrev table. On Emacsen which provide the possibility to inherit abbrevs from other tables, the abbrevs from the Text mode abbrev table are available as well. Newly defined abbrevs are written to the mode-specific tables, though. The file tex-fptex.el was removed. Forward/backward search for Evince has been improved. If Emacs is compiled with DBUS support and a recent Evince version (3.x) is installed, the communication goes over the desktop bus instead of the command line, resulting in more accurate positioning of point in Emacs and highlighting of the target paragraph in Evince. A problem where Ghostscript threw an /invalidfileaccess error when running preview-latex was fixed. A lot of smaller fixes and additions have been made. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], Mac OS X (Carbon, Cocoa)[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support, at least version 22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 and later is the recommended platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later), a very fast DVI converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the source tarball, a precompiled version for Emacs on Windows, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX or a software package management system for your operating system which provides you with the latest release. The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to <URL:mailto:auctex< at >gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Vincent Belaïche, Berend de Boer, Ken Brown, Joshua Buhl, Patrice Dumas, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Tassilo Horn, Yvon Hevel, Mads Jensen, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Philip Kime, Joost Kremers, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Antoine Levitt, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Augusto Ritter Stoffel, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Holger Sparr, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> [2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs for Windows at <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/>. [3] See e.g. <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForMacOS> for a list of precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X. [4] dvipng is available via its project page <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. [Less]

Release Notes for RefTeX 4.34 (2009-08-09) ========================================== RefTeX is a specialized package for support of labels, references, citations, and the index in LaTeX. RefTeX wraps itself around four LaTeX macros: \label, \ref ... [More] , \cite, and \index. Using these macros usually requires looking up different parts of the document and searching through BibTeX database files. RefTeX automates these time-consuming tasks almost entirely. It also provides functions to display the structure of a document and to move around in this structure quickly. New Features and Bug Fixes -------------------------- Reference styles make it easier to use special referencing macros as provided by the `varioref', `fancyref' or `hyperref' LaTeX packages. The creation of BibTeX files with `reftex-create-bibtex-file' now recognizes cross-referenced entries and < at >string definitions. See also the CHANGES file for a description of other changes. Availability ------------ RefTeX can be downloaded from <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/reftex/>. For installation instructions please refer to the INSTALL file. You will find more information about RefTeX including an online version of the manual and links to mailing lists on its home page at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/reftex.html>. [Less]

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.85 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. ... [More] Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be preferred. AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- Font locking has been improved significantly. It is now less prone to color bleeding which could lead to high resource usage. In addition it now includes information about LaTeX macro syntax and can indicate syntactically incorrect macros in LaTeX mode. The license was updated to GPLv3. Support for the nomencl, flashcards and comment LaTeX packages as well as the Icelandic language option of babel were added. Support for folding of math macros was added. Lots of minor bugs in features and documentation were fixed. IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and re-adding your changes afterwards. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support, at least version 22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 (and later) is the recommended platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from . At release time, we provide the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested SUSE and Fedora, though.) The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX , including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Berend de Boer, Joshua Buhl, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] [2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs 22 for Windows at . [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at (includes AUCTeX). [4] dvipng is available via its project page and from CTAN. [Less]

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.85 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. ... [More] Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be preferred. AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- Font locking has been improved significantly. It is now less prone to color bleeding which could lead to high resource usage. In addition it now includes information about LaTeX macro syntax and can indicate syntactically incorrect macros in LaTeX mode. The license was updated to GPLv3. Support for the nomencl, flashcards and comment LaTeX packages as well as the Icelandic language option of babel were added. Support for folding of math macros was added. Lots of minor bugs in features and documentation were fixed. IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and re-adding your changes afterwards. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK toolkit support, at least version 22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 (and later) is the recommended platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from . At release time, we provide the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested SUSE and Fedora, though.) The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX , including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Berend de Boer, Joshua Buhl, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] [2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs 22 for Windows at . [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at (includes AUCTeX). [4] dvipng is available via its project page and from CTAN. [Less]

Release Notes for RefTeX 4.33 (2007-09-02) ========================================== RefTeX is a specialized package for support of labels, references, citations, and the index in LaTeX. RefTeX wraps itself round four LaTeX macros: \label, \ref ... [More] , \cite, and \index. Using these macros usually requires looking up different parts of the document and searching through BibTeX database files. RefTeX automates these time-consuming tasks almost entirely. It also provides functions to display the structure of a document and to move around in this structure quickly. New Features and Bug Fixes -------------------------- The principal change of this release is an update to GPLv3 (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). See the CHANGES file for a description of other changes. Availability ------------ RefTeX can be downloaded from . For installation instructions please refer to the INSTALL file. You will find more information about RefTeX including an online version of the manual and links to mailing lists on its home page at . [Less]

Release Notes for RefTeX 4.32 (2007-04-10) ========================================== RefTeX is a specialized package for support of labels, references, citations, and the index in LaTeX. RefTeX wraps itself round four LaTeX macros: \label, \ref ... [More] , \cite, and \index. Using these macros usually requires looking up different parts of the document and searching through BibTeX database files. RefTeX automates these time-consuming tasks almost entirely. It also provides functions to display the structure of a document and to move around in this structure quickly. New Features and Bug Fixes -------------------------- This is the first release of RefTeX after the AUCTeX project took over maintainership from Carsten Dominik which involved rearranging source code and putting it under version control. The installation procedure was reimplemented and the way to activate RefTeX changed. So be sure to check out the installation instructions in the INSTALL file when upgrading because you might have to remove or replace old commands related to RefTeX from your init file. Some minor bugs were fixed. Check the CHANGES file for details. Availability ------------ RefTeX can be downloaded from . For installation instructions please refer to the INSTALL file. You will find more information about RefTeX including an online version of the manual and links to mailing lists on its home page at . [Less]

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.84 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. ... [More] Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be preferred. AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- There have been problems with the `-without-texmf-dir' option to `configure' when the value of `-with-kpathsea-sep' was set or determined for an installation system with a default different from that of the runtime system. `with-kpathsea-sep' has been removed; the setting is now usually determined at runtime. Due to this and other problems, preview-latex in the released XEmacs package failed under Windows or with anything except recent 21.5 XEmacsen. AUCTeX and preview-latex have been changed in order to accommodate file names containing spaces. preview-latex now tolerates bad PostScript code polluting the stack (like some Omega fonts). `preview.sty' had in some cases failed to emit PostScript header specials. Support for folding of comments was added. The `polish' language option of the babel LaTeX package as well as the `polski' LaTeX package are now supported. Most notably this means that AUCTeX will help to insert quotation marks as defined by polish.sty ("`..."') and polski.sty (,,...''). There has been quite a number of bug fixes to various features and documentation across the board, most critical probably the tool bar. IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and re-adding your changes afterwards. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. Warning: release 21.4.16 of XEmacs is severely broken. This leads to crashes and hangs; don't use it. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK toolkit support[4], a developer version[5] of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required. A recent developer version of GNU Emacs appears like the best choice even on X11, however. If you prefer XEmacs-21, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[6] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from . At release time, we provide the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested SUSE and Fedora, though.) The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX , including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Berend de Boer, Joshua Buhl, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows e.g. at . A version with AUCTeX preinstalled can be found at . [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at (including AUCTeX) and . [4] Debian provides precompiled GTK Emacs packages in its `unstable' distribution (look for `emacs-snapshot-gtk'). Packages for Fedora can be found at . [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the GNU's mouth can be found at [6] dvipng is available via its project page and from CTAN. [Less]

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.84 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. ... [More] Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be preferred. AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- There have been problems with the `-without-texmf-dir' option to `configure' when the value of `-with-kpathsea-sep' was set or determined for an installation system with a default different from that of the runtime system. `with-kpathsea-sep' has been removed; the setting is now usually determined at runtime. Due to this and other problems, preview-latex in the released XEmacs package failed under Windows or with anything except recent 21.5 XEmacsen. AUCTeX and preview-latex have been changed in order to accommodate file names containing spaces. preview-latex now tolerates bad PostScript code polluting the stack (like some Omega fonts). `preview.sty' had in some cases failed to emit PostScript header specials. Support for folding of comments was added. The `polish' language option of the babel LaTeX package as well as the `polski' LaTeX package are now supported. Most notably this means that AUCTeX will help to insert quotation marks as defined by polish.sty ("`..."') and polski.sty (,,...''). There has been quite a number of bug fixes to various features and documentation across the board, most critical probably the tool bar. IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and re-adding your changes afterwards. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. Warning: release 21.4.16 of XEmacs is severely broken. This leads to crashes and hangs; don't use it. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support[4], a developer version[5] of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required. A recent developer version of GNU Emacs appears like the best choice even on X11, however. If you prefer XEmacs-21, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[6] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from . At release time, we provide the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested SUSE and Fedora, though.) The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX , including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Berend de Boer, Joshua Buhl, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows e.g. at . A version with AUCTeX preinstalled can be found at . [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at (including AUCTeX) and . [4] Debian provides precompiled GTK+ Emacs packages in its `unstable' distribution (look for `emacs-snapshot-gtk'). Packages for Fedora can be found at . [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the GNU's mouth can be found at [6] dvipng is available via its project page and from CTAN. [Less]

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.83 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. ... [More] Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be preferred. AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- The new function `TeX-doc' provides easy access to documentation about commands and packages or information related to TeX and friends in general. It is accessible with the key binding `C-c ?' or the `Find Documentation...' entry in the mode menus. You can now get rid of generated intermediate and output files by means of the new `Clean' and `Clean All' entries in `TeX-command-list' accessible with `C-c C-c' or the Command menu. Support for forward search with PDF files was added. That means you can jump to a place in the output file corresponding to the position in the source file. Currently this only works if you use the pdfsync LaTeX package and xpdf as your PDF viewer. The accuracy is in the range of /-1 page. Adding support for this feature required the default value of the variable `TeX-output-view-style' to be changed. Please make sure you either remove any customizations overriding the new default or incorporate the changes into your customizations if you want to use this feature. The error parsing of AUCTeX as well as preview-latex now deals with -file-line-error type messages from newer web2c versions (earlier versions would omit the traditional error context, which will not work). The LaTeX tool bar is now enabled by default. A problem in preview-latex in connection with XyMTeX has been fixed. IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and re-adding your changes afterwards. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. Warning: release 21.4.16 of XEmacs is severely broken. This leads to crashes and hangs; don't use it. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK toolkit support[4], a developer version[5] of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required. A recent developer version of GNU Emacs appears like the best choice even on X11, however. If you prefer XEmacs-21, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[6] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from . At release time, we provide the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested SUSE and Fedora, though.) The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX , including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Berend de Boer, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows e.g. at . A version with AUCTeX preinstalled can be found at . [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at (including AUCTeX) and . [4] Debian provides precompiled GTK Emacs packages in its `unstable' distribution (look for `emacs-snapshot-gtk'). Packages for Fedora can be found at . [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the GNU's mouth can be found at [6] dvipng is available via its project page and from CTAN. [Less]