Questions tagged [auctex]
is for AUCTeX package that extends basic `tex-mode` Emacs provides for editing TeX files. AUCTeX integrates many built-in and external macro packages for creating, editing, printing, publishing, and managing multilingual TeX documents. AUCTeX works with several TeX compilers, extensions, and dialects of TeX and LaTeX. AUCTeX supports customizable bibliographies, indexes, and tables of content.
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pdf-tools Emacs with auctex
I have setup Emacs pdf-tools with auctex on ubuntu and the forward and reverse search work fine. But in the forward search (latex file to corresponding position in pdf document), it is difficult to ...
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Change buffer background color on LaTeX compile error, or highlight errors more prominently?
I am using Emacs+Auctex to write LaTeX code.
When compiling a document that contains an error, Emacs writes
LaTeX errors in ‘*~/doc output*’. Use C-c ` to display.
to the Messages buffer (and ...
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AUCTeX does not compile if the local variable is already set
I'm basically want to ask the question that was asked in Tex Stackexchange but was considered off-topic there (this is the link to the question).
When I am trying to compile (using the command C-c C-...
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Indenting LaTeX code for \if \else \fi statements
This is related to this Emacs.SE question.
I use the code from the answer:
(setq LaTeX-begin-regexp "\\(?:begin\\|if@\\)\\b")
(setq LaTeX-end-regexp "\\(?:end\\|else\\|fi\\)\\b")
(defun LaTeX-indent-...
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Omit ~ before the \ref command (with RefTeX+AUCTeX)
The default behaviour of C-c ) is to insert \ref and prefix it with~. I don't need the tilde after \S (i.e. I need the output to look like \S\ref{label}, rather than \S~\ref{label}). Is there a short ...
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make AucTeX structure aware?
TeXStudio seems to be aware of the interdependencies of files and internal structure (e.g., blocks for beamer posters shown in example below).
For instance, the left column panel in TeXStudio shows ...
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Text and backround colour with auctex has the same colour, how to change
In LaTeX mode with Auctex, I have a problem with \textbf and that is that the text inside the {} has the same colour as the background of the textbf field, as illustrated here:
This is only a problem ...
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Automatic preview generation with AUCTeX
Right now, when using AUCTeX's preview feature, I have to manually refresh the previews after I change existing sources or write new text. I have to run preview-document every time, which is both ...
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AUCTeX fontification for any command: overkill?
Reading the AUCTeX manual I see that it is possible to add expressions to those one wants to highlight in a .tex file. There are also many specific suggestions around for how to add specific commands ...
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Semantic linefeeds (one sentence per line) in Emacs
I'm trying to get Emacs to insert a line break at the end of each sentence as I type. (Why? Makes for easier version control of tex files.)
Looking around I found a few places with some suggestions ...
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Is it possible to use AUCTeX preview-latex in emacs terminal?
I was wondering if it is possible to have latex preview working in emacs terminal. This is somehow related to this question. But 3 years have passed and I'm wondering if anything has changed? For ...
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Flyspell Not Working in AucTeX
A while back flyspell stopped working for me in AucTeX. I've been cleaning out my init.el file to see if I could fix the problem. I can still do M-x flyspell-mode when in a .tex file. But, I still ...
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Automatic detection of master files not working in AUCTeX
I have the following two questions:
1) Is it still recommended these days to use the guess-TeX-master snippet from AUCTeX wiki?
2) If yes, could someone provide some hints on why it doesn't work in ...
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What is causing this AUCTeX preview fatal error, or how can I find that out?
This is a minimal test file:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[1+1=2\]
\end{document}
The content of texput.log is the following:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live ...
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Change color of preview expressions in Auctex
In the customize group "Preview Appearance", I click on "Preview Face" and set "Foreground" to "red". To the right, I see the word "sample" displayed in red. Then I select "Save for Future Sessions." ...
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Change AUCTeX behavior inside an environment
I am using the LaTeX markdown package to insert quick notes in my document. I would like Emacs to switch to markdown mode inside the markdown environment so it for example won't automatically re-...
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Why does emacs not apply some config settings when editing tex files?
I'm facing a rather peculiar situation where my emacs settings seem to be lost every time that I open a .tex file. That's doesn't happen when I'm editing .el or .py files. Heres some examples with ...
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What is the meaning of the entry `(“%T” file t t nil t)` defined in the AucTeX variable `TeX-expand-list-builtin`
AucTeX uses the two variables TeX-expand-list and TeX-expand-list-builtin when processing (La)TeX buffers.
According to the documentation of the variable TeX-expand-list
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Each entry is a ...
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How can I get Tex-latex-mode style inline math fontification in Org mode?
I enjoy the inline math fontification that the AucTeX TeX-latex-mode provides – both the theme-responsive coloring and visual indication for sub- and super-scripted math. I have worked in plain ...
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Cannot generate previews with latex-preview
I am trying to use preview-latex but, when I generate previews, these are not loaded in Emacs gtk buffer, even though previews are correctly produced in the .pdf output file.
The error produced is ...
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company-mode doesn't work on latex environment
I've installed the company package in order to get an auto-completion functionality. It works well in my ESS environment, but no in latex. In fact, no completions are showed in latex buffers when I ...
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How to perform query-replace inside mathematical expressions in latex
Inspired by this answer, I have written the following function to perform a query-replace inside a math environment, but it does not work.
Edit. If you execute the function, the query-search tries to ...
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Proper way to use use-package and hooks on Auctex package
I'm learning how to use use-package, and I've some troubles to make it work with the Auctex packages (all the other packages are fine). I made my own function configure-viewer that basically adds a ...
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AucTeX not loading beamer class
When trying to use the LaTeX document class beamer with AucTeX it does not load the template. Emacs reports Symbol’s value as variable is void: LaTeX-hyperref-package-options-list after loading ...
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TeX-view replaces current buffer
I am encountering an issue since I switched to dev-branch: when I run the TeX-view command with only one active buffer (my .tex file), instead of opening a new side-window and displaying the PDF there,...
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Trying to install auctex via package-install
I am trying to install auctex via M-x package-install RET auctex.
Unfortunately after a brief splash of
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443,
I end up with the message
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/...
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AucTeX'sTeX-next-error not catching any errors in ConTeXt
AucTeX's TeX-next-error doesn't display any of the errors listed in the output buffer, only "No more errors".
MWE:
\starttext
\Hello
\stoptext
% Local Variables:
% ConTeXt-Mark-version: "IV"
% End:
...
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running pytontex script in auctex
When using the pythonTeX package I need to compile my latex files in three steps:
run latex <mylatexfile>
run pytontex <mylatexfile>
run again latex <mylatexfile>
How to ...
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AUCTeX no longer using pdf-tools after using :bind and :map from use-package to define keybindings for PDFView mode
I'd like to define a Hydra for PDFView mode and bind a key for it in pdf-view-mode-map. However, it seems that if I try to bind any keys for pdf-view-mode-map using :bind and :map of use-package, ...
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AUCTeX command for Make and View
I sometimes use Makefiles with LaTeX documents, and so I'd like to define a command that does something similar to AUCTeX's C-c C-a (TeX-command-run-all) but using make.
I tried creating a function ...
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What is “override advice”?
When I execute describe-mode from within a .texi file, I see:
Texinfo/P mode defined in `texinfo.el' (`texinfo-mode'):
:override advice: ‘TeX-texinfo-mode’
What happens is that AUCTeX takes over the ...
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use-package do not bind in latex-mode-map
this is a part of my init file
(use-package tex-site
:ensure auctex
:mode
("\\.tex\\'" . latex-mode)
:bind
(:map LaTeX-mode-map
("<f5> <f5>" . TeX-command-save-buffer-and-...
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Why AUCTeX/pdflatex show me help in Japanese?
I had this error message displayed to me by AUCTeX (already corrected using \ddot{\boldsymbol x})
ERROR: Extra }, or forgotten $.
--- TeX said ---
<recently read> }
l.51 \[ \boldsymbol M\ddot\...
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AUCTeX, caching document classes over an Emacs restart
The first time I create a new LaTeX document* in a new instance of Emacs AUCTeX scans my TeXLive installation to find all the available document classes .
This scanning, due to the complexity and ...
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Preview LaTeX doesn't work when I delete the _region_.prv folder
Suppose I create a latex document in ~/junk/text.tex with the following conent:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$x$
\end{document}
%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% ...
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How to setup Emacs for live editing of ConTeXt documents?
I haven't found anything on how to set this up, such that latex-preview-pane works as expected, and I also couldn't find how to get the preview-latex working. It's mentioned in online docs but there's ...
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Surprisingly persistent local variable
A local variable keeps coming back, and I know not whence.
In a certain buffer,
TeX-command-extra-options is "--synctex=1", even after I have removed
this from my init.el and restarted Emacs.
I tried ...
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Preventing `TeX-command-run-all` from shifting focus
It seems that TeX-command-run-all shifts focus to the pdf window, which is quite annoying. Is there a way to prevent that?
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AUCTeX: 'reftex-cleveref-cref' inserts '\eqref' instead of '\cref' for equations
When I run 'reftex-cleveref-cref', which is supposed to insert a '\cref' command in my LaTeX file, I get the expected behaviour for figures and sections, but not for equations: I get the '\eqref' ...
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AucTeX - Previewing Errors
I'm using Ubuntu 19.04 and Emacs 26.1. Whenever I try to use inline preview (with any region, section, or environment that has inline math), I get the following error:
...
TeX Output exited as ...
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AUCTeX: Command 'reftex-cleveref-cref' not recognized before 'reftex-reference' is run
I have a strange behavior in AUCTeX with RefTeX: the command 'reftex-reference' (C-c )) needs to be run before the command 'reftex-cleveref-cref' gets recognized, on a newly-started emacs session.
In ...
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Auctex doesn't show the preview pictures, while no error output
When using the preview command in the auctex editor on a latex file, no pictures are actually displayed, and no error output in the log.
I checked that there does exists the "_region_.pdf" file, ...
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Auctex preview reportes to run as excepted but shows error preview pictures
The auctex in emacs has worked well before, but recently whenever I run a preview command such as C-c C-p C-b, it shows "Preview-Ghostscript finished at XXX" without any error notice in the log, but ...
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Automatically replace “$” by “\(” in latex-mode
In latex mode, using \( ... \) is preferred over $ ... $, so in my configuration I have the following
(sp-local-pair modes "$" nil :actions :rem)
(sp-local-pair modes "\\(" "\\)" :trigger "$")
This ...
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Why does AucTeX say I need to run LaTeX again, when in fact I don't need to do so?
I've used the solution suggested in this answer to automize the compilation of my LaTeX document using Arara upon entering C-c C-a. The resulting output is perfect, but the following erroneous message ...
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Shortcut to put the selected region in an ordinary LaTeX environment (not with begin-end style) using auctex
In auctex if one has a selected region and then apply the command c-c c-e (LaTeX-environment) then by selecting an environment, the selected region will be folded between that environment.
Is there a ...
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How to prevent preview-latex to manipulate and delete the pdf created by latex
Running latex-preview manipulates and then deletes the pdf created by latex. If skim is open as pdf-viewer the pdf gets sliced into the images created by latex-preview. Running latex again doesn't ...
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How to enable company-mode for some buffers only?
I would like company mode to lead automatically for some buffers like AucTex for example but not on other buffers like Org-mode
global-company-mode
Enables comapny mode everywhere and I only want ...
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Auctex autocomplete and physics.sty
I have autocomplete successfully working in auctex. It also works for included packages, so if I, for example, have \usepackage{url} in my preamble, I will get autocompletion while typing \url.
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TeX-evince-sync-view locking up with this file
This file when I compile it with AUCTeX, and then try to view it, using TeX-evince-sync-view, shows that one page has been compiled, but then shows a blank view. After I kill it, TeX-evince-sync-view ...
