Table of Contents

• Copying

• 1. Introduction

  • 1.1 Overview of AUCTeX

  • 1.2 Installing AUCTeX

    • 1.2.1 Prerequisites
    • 1.2.2 Configure
    • 1.2.3 Build/install and uninstall
    • 1.2.4 Loading the package
    • 1.2.5 Providing AUCTeX as a package
    • 1.2.6 Installation for non-privileged users
    • 1.2.7 Installation under MS Windows
    • 1.2.8 Customizing

  • 1.3 Quick Start

    • 1.3.1 Functions for editing TeX files

      • 1.3.1.1 Making your TeX code more readable
      • 1.3.1.2 Entering sectioning commands
      • 1.3.1.3 Inserting environments
      • 1.3.1.4 Inserting macros
      • 1.3.1.5 Changing the font
      • 1.3.1.6 Other useful features

    • 1.3.2 Creating and viewing output, debugging

      • 1.3.2.1 One Command for LaTeX, helpers, viewers, and printing
      • 1.3.2.2 Choosing an output format
      • 1.3.2.3 Debugging LaTeX
      • 1.3.2.4 Running LaTeX on parts of your document

• 2. Editing the Document Source

  • 2.1 Insertion of Quotes, Dollars, and Braces

  • 2.2 Inserting Font Specifiers

  • 2.3 Inserting chapters, sections, etc.

  • 2.4 Inserting Environment Templates

    • 2.4.1 Equations
    • 2.4.2 Floats
    • 2.4.3 Itemize-like Environments
    • 2.4.4 Tabular-like Environments
    • 2.4.5 Customizing Environments

  • 2.5 Entering Mathematics

  • 2.6 Completion

  • 2.7 Marking Environments, Sections, or Texinfo Nodes

    • 2.7.1 LaTeX Commands for Marking Environments and Sections
    • 2.7.2 Texinfo Commands for Marking Environments and Sections

  • 2.8 Commenting

  • 2.9 Indenting

  • 2.10 Filling

• 3. Controlling Screen Display

  • 3.1 Font Locking

    • 3.1.1 Fontification of macros
    • 3.1.2 Fontification of quotes
    • 3.1.3 Fontification of mathematical constructs
    • 3.1.4 Verbatim macros and environments
    • 3.1.5 Faces used by font-latex
    • 3.1.6 Known fontification problems

  • 3.2 Folding Macros and Environments

  • 3.3 Outlining the Document

  • 3.4 Narrowing

  • 3.5 Prettifying

• 4. Starting Processors, Viewers and Other Programs

  • 4.1 Executing Commands

    • 4.1.1 Starting a Command on a Document or Region
    • 4.1.2 Selecting and Executing a Command
    • 4.1.3 Options for TeX Processors

  • 4.2 Viewing the Formatted Output

    • 4.2.1 Starting Viewers
    • 4.2.2 Forward and Inverse Search

  • 4.3 Catching the errors

    • 4.3.1 Controlling warnings to be reported
    • 4.3.2 List of all errors and warnings

  • 4.4 Checking for problems

  • 4.5 Controlling the output

  • 4.6 Cleaning intermediate and output files

  • 4.7 Documentation about macros and packages

• 5. Customization and Extension

  • 5.1 Modes and Hooks

  • 5.2 Multifile Documents

  • 5.3 Automatic Parsing of TeX Files

  • 5.4 Language Support

    • 5.4.1 Using AUCTeX with European Languages

      • 5.4.1.1 Typing and Displaying Non-ASCII Characters
      • 5.4.1.2 Style Files for Different Languages

    • 5.4.2 Using AUCTeX with Japanese TeX

  • 5.5 Automatic Customization

    • 5.5.1 Automatic Customization for the Site
    • 5.5.2 Automatic Customization for a User
    • 5.5.3 Automatic Customization for a Directory

  • 5.6 Writing Your Own Style Support

    • 5.6.1 A Simple Style File
    • 5.6.2 Adding Support for Macros
    • 5.6.3 Adding Support for Environments
    • 5.6.4 Adding Other Information
    • 5.6.5 Automatic Extraction of New Things

• A. Copying, Changes, Development, FAQ, Texinfo Mode

  • A.1 Copying this Manual

    • A.1.1 GNU Free Documentation License

  • A.2 Changes and New Features

  • A.3 Future Development

    • A.3.1 Mid-term Goals
    • A.3.2 Wishlist
    • A.3.3 Bugs

  • A.4 Frequently Asked Questions

  • A.5 Features specific to AUCTeX’s Texinfo major mode

    • A.5.1 How AUCTeX and the native mode work together
    • A.5.2 Where the native mode is superseded
    • A.5.3 Where key bindings are mapped to the native mode
    • A.5.4 Which native mode key bindings are missing

• Indices

  • Key Index
  • Function Index
  • Variable Index
  • Concept Index