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Release notes for AUCTeX 11.89 with preview-latex
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AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated
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environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with
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Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and
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others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring
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solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX
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distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax
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highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in
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the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent
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indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of
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graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source
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buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component.
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One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty'
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file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is
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available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1]
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AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks:
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documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material,
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sleuth work, testing.
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New features and fixed bugs in this release
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You can now run all commands needed to compile a document and then
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open the viewer with a single command: 'TeX-command-run-all', bound
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to 'C-c C-a'.
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Commands such as LaTeX and View can now be executed conveniently on
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the current section (or part, chapter, subsection, etc). See
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'LaTeX-command-section' and 'LaTeX-command-section-change-level'.
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Forward and backward search with Evince now also work when only a
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region of the document is compiled/viewed.
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To open the PDF output file you can now use also PDF Tools, a
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document viewer for Emacs. With it, as a plus, forward and
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backward search is accurate at word level.
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With new option 'TeX-PDF-via-dvips-ps2pdf' it is possible to
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compile a document to DVI and then convert it to PDF using
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'dvips'-'ps2pdf' before viewing it.
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New option 'TeX-file-line-error' allows to select file:line:error
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style for error messages.
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Indent '\[...\]' math mode as a regular environment by default.
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Now AUCTeX suggests to run 'makeindex' when appropriate.
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'TeX-view-program-list' can contain, as third optional element of
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each item, the name of the executable(s) needed to open the viewer.
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'TeX-expand-list' variable has been split into 'TeX-expand-list'
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and 'TeX-expand-list-builtin'. Only the former is intended to be
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customized by the user, the latter contains built-in expanders.
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You might want to keep in 'TeX-expand-list' only new expansion
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strings.
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When new option 'TeX-check-engine' is non-nil, before running LaTeX
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commands AUCTeX will check whether the correct engine has been set,
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based upon known restrictions posed by LaTeX packages.
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Basic support to ConTeXt Mark IV has been added. Users can now
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select the Mark version to be used with new option
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'ConTeXt-Mark-version', and AUCTeX is able to catch error messages
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in the output log of a Mark IV document.
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Support for tons of LaTeX packages has been addedd.
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Numbers of bugs have been fixed, many minor features have been
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addedd.
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Requirements
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It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4.
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XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package
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(released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer
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for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for
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upgrading if necessary.
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The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available
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with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], Mac OS
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X (Carbon, Cocoa)[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support, at least version
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22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 and later is the recommended
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platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in
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version 21.4.10 or later.
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You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript.
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dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later), a very fast DVI converter, can be
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used to speed up the conversion.
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Availability
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AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from
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<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the
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source tarball, a precompiled version for Emacs on Windows, and a
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platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install
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yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing
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the previous version of AUCTeX). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of
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course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX or a
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software package management system for your operating system which
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provides you with the latest release.
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The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is
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usually more recent than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and
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as part of the Sumo tarball.
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A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the
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tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet.
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The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN.
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AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX
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<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list
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addresses.
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Future development and additional information
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AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of
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merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to
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assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual
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procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past
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contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done
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so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find
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and ask the rest.
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Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to
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<URL:mailto:auctex@gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to
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compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX
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at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the
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developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks
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remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development.
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The following people contributed to this release series (in
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alphabetical order): Ivan Andrus, Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Fabrice
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Ben Hamouda, Thomas Baumann, Vincent Bela<6C>che, Berend de Boer, Ken
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Brown, Joshua Buhl, Patrice Dumas, Arash Esbati, Werner Fink, Miguel
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Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Mos<6F> Giordano, Patrick Gundlach, Jobst
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Hoffmann, Tassilo Horn, Yvon Hevel, Orlando Iovino, Mads Jensen, Arne
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J<EFBFBD>rgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Philip Kime, Oleh Krehel, Joost
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Kremers, Frank K<>ster, Jan-<2D>ke Larsson, Matthew Leach, Antoine Levitt,
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Leo Liu, Vladimir Lomov, Stefan Monnier, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van
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Oostrum, Nicolas Richard, Augusto Ritter Stoffel, Florent Rougon,
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Santiago Saavedra, Davide G. M. Salvetti, R<>diger Sonderfeld, Holger
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Sparr, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda,
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Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.)
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Footnotes:
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[1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/>
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[2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs for Windows at
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<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/>.
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[3] See e.g. <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForMacOS>
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for a list of precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X.
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[4] dvipng is available via its project page
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<URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN.
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