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When I have text inside \begin{equation} ... \end{equation}, font-latex-math-face face is applied.
If I have atikzpicture block inside equation, font-latex-math-face face is applied to it as well:
\begin{equation}
\begin{tikzpicture}
... % font-latex-math-face is applied, which I don't want
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{equation}
Is it possible to prevent font-latex-math-face from being applied to the tikzpicture block even though it's inside the equation block?
Sample demo.tex file that has tikzpicture within a equation
% Created 2022-10-14 Fri 14:48
% Intended LaTeX compiler: pdflatex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{tikz}
\date{\today}
\title{}
\hypersetup{
pdftitle={},
pdfkeywords={},
pdfsubject={},
pdfcreator={Emacs 29.0.50 (Org mode 9.5.5)},
pdflang={English}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\begin{equation}
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(current bounding box.center)]
\node {sqrt} % root
child { node {sqrt-iter}
child[sibling distance=5cm] { node{ good-enough }
child[sibling distance=2cm] { node { square } }
child[sibling distance=2cm] { node { abs } } }
child { node{ improve }
child { node { average } } } };
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
x=\sqrt{b}
\end{equation}
If \(a^2=b\) and \(b=2\), then the solution must be
either $$ a=+\sqrt{2} $$ or \[ a=-\sqrt{2} \].
\end{document}
How the above tex file is rendered
How the buffer looks like in emacs -Q
tikzpicture within equation environment gets a font-latex-math-face
Copy the following snippet to *scratch*, and do M-x eval-buffer.
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook
(defun my-LaTeX-mode-hook ()
(hi-lock-mode 1)
(highlight-regexp
(rx (seq
"\\begin{tikzpicture}"
"[" (group (one-or-more any)) "]"
(group (minimal-match (one-or-more (or any "\n"))))
"\\end{tikzpicture}"))
'hi-yellow 2)
(font-lock-flush))
t)
Visit the above demo.tex and do M-x revert-buffer. This is how it looks
tikzpicture gets its own face (which is hi-yellow)
To highlight tikzpicture in default face, change 'hi-yellow in the snippet to 'default.
When I open the .tex file, and I do C-h m I get
The major mode is LaTeX/P mode defined in tex-mode.el:
This function has :override advice: TeX-latex-mode.
This is an :override advice, which means that latex-mode isn’t
run at all, and the documentation below may be irrelevant.
I also see
TeX-latex-mode is an autoloaded interactive byte-compiled Lisp
function in latex.el.
(TeX-latex-mode)
Major mode in AUCTeX for editing LaTeX files. See info under AUCTeX for full documentation.
I had trouble finding the relevant hook. You may have to find what hook is run in your case. See https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/latex.el?h=b91f15b3a375445985143ed1d6e41490ea62780a#n7161. As the screenshots, there is no problem with the snippet. May be our running environments are different. May be try putting it on TeX-mode-hook.
To test the snippet, you don't have to have to put it on a hook. Just add an interactive spec to my-LaTeX-mode-hook, and call the function with M-x ....
(I am not a tex user, auctex is one of the big old packages which was outside of Emacs for a long time. So, it has plenty of "hacks")
TeX-latex-mode-hook-79i7rxb01mj ? like where did 79i7rxb01mj0 come from?
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "‘TeX-latex-mode-hook-79i7rxb01mj0’ is not a valid ...") signal(error ("‘TeX-latex-mode-hook-79i7rxb01mj0’ is not a valid ..."))
font-latex-sedate-face is assigned for the \node (makes it bold and different color) to obtain this instead of 'default do you have an idea what should be used?
The suggestion here is good enough.
By default, the font-latex-verbatim-face and font-latex-math-face pick up the same color on X.
(With the same color assigned to math and verbatim environment, it is easy to mistake that the verbatim environment is not working)
Similarly, in my earlier screenshot sedate face is left unconfigured. Once you configure it, it is possible to distinguish between the equation, tikzpicture and sedate environments by carefull choosing the face properties.
(For example, in the config below, the sedate face has a bold property; even thought its :foreground property is overridden by verbatim face, the extra bold property makes it standout.)
Here is the screenshot
tikzpicture in math environment
taken with
(TeX-load-hack)
(custom-set-variables
'(LaTeX-verbatim-environments
'("verbatim" "verbatim*" "filecontents" "filecontents*" "tikzpicture")))
(custom-set-faces
'(font-latex-sedate-face ((t (:foreground "DarkOrange" :weight bold))))
'(font-latex-verbatim-face ((t (:inherit fixed-pitch :foreground "turquoise"))))
'(my-tikzpicture-face ((t (:foreground "ForestGreen"))) t))
My earlier suggestion is superior to the verbatim environment because you can the tikzpicture can have its own color different from verbatim environments.
To get this
tikzpicture gets its own face---that is tikzpicture is not using verbatim environment here
do this
(TeX-load-hack)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook
(defun TeX-latex-mode-hook-79i7rxb01mj0 ()
(message "coming hree")
(hi-lock-mode 1)
(highlight-regexp
(rx (seq
"\\begin{tikzpicture}"
(group (optional "[" (one-or-more any) "]"))
(group (minimal-match (zero-or-more (or any "\n"))))
"\\end{tikzpicture}"))
'my-tikzpicture-face 2)
(font-lock-flush))
t)
(defface my-tikzpicture-face nil
"Face for tikzpicture environment."
:group 'font-latex-highlighting-faces)
(custom-set-faces
'(font-latex-sedate-face ((t (:foreground "DarkOrange" :weight bold))))
'(font-latex-verbatim-face ((t (:inherit fixed-pitch :foreground "turquoise"))))
'(my-tikzpicture-face ((t (:foreground "ForestGreen"))) t))
This is an experimental code ... Please don't use it in an Emacs session in which you are editing important documents like dissertation. If there are bugs in the font-lock matcher, it will lock up your Emacs, and you need to essentially restart Emacs, and lose all the edits.
What you want here is fontification of tikzpicture environment apart from its parent environment, equation in this case.
This scenario occurs in org-mode. For example, the src-blocks are fontified using their own environment, apart from the surrounding org-mode environment.
IOW, conceptually
tikzpicture env => #+begin_src ... #+end_srcequation env => org-modeSo, in the snippet below, the tikzpicture environment is copied over to temporary buffer in latex-mode, fontified there, and its face properties transferred over to the original tex buffer. This is exactly what the org-mode does while fontifying src-blocks natively.
IOW, the snippet is a verbatim copy of org-mode src-block fontification code, but to cater to the current requirements.
org-mode and auctex aren't same, and their fontification defaults are different ... So, for some reasons while using this code there will be partial fontification of tikzpicture blocks, which will go away as soon as you issue a command.
(My font-lock-fu is not good enough to address this "partial fontification" issue.)
That said, here is the real meat ...
To get this
Fontify tikzpicture environment independently of its surrrounding math environment
(Its worth comparing the screenshot here with screenshots provided in earlier answers. Note specifically the order of faces in tikzpicture environment)
do this
(require 'tex-site)
(defface my-tikzpicture-face nil
"Face for tikzpicture environment."
:group 'font-latex-highlighting-faces)
(custom-set-faces
'(font-latex-sedate-face ((t (:foreground "DarkOrange" :weight bold))))
'(font-latex-verbatim-face ((t (:inherit fixed-pitch :foreground "turquoise"))))
'(my-tikzpicture-face ((t (:foreground "ForestGreen"))) t))
(defvar-local suppress-my-tikzpicture-matcher nil)
(defun my-tikzpicture-matcher (limit)
;; (message "tikzpicture-matcher: %S" limit)
(unless suppress-my-tikzpicture-matcher
(let ((case-fold-search t))
(while (re-search-forward
(rx (seq
"\\begin{tikzpicture}"
(optional "[" (minimal-match (one-or-more any)) "]")
(group (minimal-match (zero-or-more (or any "\n"))))
"\\end{tikzpicture}"))
limit t)
(let ((start (match-beginning 0))
(end (match-end 0))
(lang 'latex-mode))
(add-text-properties start end
'(font-lock-fontified t font-lock-multiline t))
(let ((lang-mode 'latex-mode))
(when (fboundp lang-mode)
(let ((string (buffer-substring-no-properties start end))
(modified (buffer-modified-p))
(tex-buffer (current-buffer)))
(remove-text-properties start end '(face nil))
(font-lock-prepend-text-property start end 'face 'my-tikzpicture-face tex-buffer)
(with-current-buffer
(get-buffer-create
(format " *tikzpicture fontification:%s [%s %s]*" lang-mode start end))
(setq suppress-my-tikzpicture-matcher t)
(let ((inhibit-modification-hooks nil))
(erase-buffer)
;; Add string and a final space to ensure property change.
(insert string " "))
(unless (eq major-mode lang-mode) (funcall lang-mode))
(font-lock-ensure)
(let ((pos (point-min)) next)
(while (setq next (next-property-change pos))
;; Handle additional properties from font-lock, so as to
;; preserve, e.g., composition.
(dolist (prop (cons 'face font-lock-extra-managed-props))
(let ((new-prop (get-text-property pos prop)))
(font-lock-prepend-text-property
(+ start (1- pos)) (1- (+ start next)) prop new-prop
tex-buffer)
;; (put-text-property
;; (+ start (1- pos)) (1- (+ start next)) prop new-prop
;; tex-buffer)
))
(setq pos next))))
(add-text-properties start end
'(
font-lock-fontified t
fontified t
font-lock-multiline t))
(set-buffer-modified-p modified))))))
(force-window-update (current-buffer))
nil)))
;; (run-mode-hooks 'text-mode-hook 'TeX-mode-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook
(defun my-LaTeX-mode-hook ()
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
(list '(my-tikzpicture-matcher))
'append)
(font-lock-flush)))
my-tikzpicture-face inherit from default face, you will no longer notice that tikzpicture is within the math environment (custom-set-faces '(my-tikzpicture-face ((t (:inherit default))) t)). This is experimental code---but most of it is derived from well-worn org-mode code---so use it with some caution.
highlight-regexp (Solution 1). Amount of custom code is minimal. Use custom fontifier (Solution 3): Lots of custom code, and there are some delays in fontification.