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annotate docs/qanda.eng @ 75:7e361fb5401d

Stable version(hope to be)
author yuuji
date Wed, 22 May 2002 05:01:18 +0000
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yuuji@54 1 %%
yuuji@54 2 %% Q and A on YaTeX
yuuji@54 3 %%
yuuji@56 4 %% C-u C-x $ shows only questions. C-x $ shows all.
yuuji@54 5 %%
yuuji@60 6 (New Item
yuuji@60 7 *It is bothering for me to determine I should call bibtex or latex...
yuuji@60 8 *Filling a paragraph doesn't work as I expected.
yuuji@54 9
yuuji@54 10 [Installation]
yuuji@56 11 ==============
yuuji@54 12 *Installing the manual
yuuji@56 13
yuuji@56 14 Copy yatexe to the info directory where your Emacs is installed,
yuuji@56 15 and add the next line to the dir file of the same directory.
yuuji@54 16
yuuji@72 17 * YaTeX-e: (yatexe). Yet Another tex-mode for Emacs. (English).
yuuji@54 18
yuuji@56 19 (After that, M-x info [RET] m yatex [RET] will give you Wild
yuuji@56 20 Bird's manual. Hitting ? will show how to use info)
yuuji@54 21
yuuji@70 22 *I'm a Meadow(Emacs on Win32) user. I don't have `make' utility
yuuji@70 23
yuuji@70 24 Make program is needed only for byte-compiling. So if you do
yuuji@70 25 not care the subtle speed difference, you don't have to
yuuji@70 26 byte-compile. You don't have to look for `make' utility. The
yuuji@70 27 simplest way to install yatex without `make'.
yuuji@70 28
yuuji@70 29 1 Extract this yatex*tar.gz to your Meadow's site-lisp dir.
yuuji@70 30 2 Add the yatex installed path to your load-path according to
yuuji@70 31 `install' file in this package.
yuuji@70 32
yuuji@54 33 *I ain't got the privilege to write in the Info directory...
yuuji@56 34
yuuji@56 35 Get yourself made root. If you can't, have them install Mule2
yuuji@56 36 and add
yuuji@54 37
yuuji@54 38 (setq Info-default-directory-list
yuuji@54 39 (cons "YOUR INFO DIRECTORY"
yuuji@54 40 Info-default-directory-list))
yuuji@54 41
yuuji@56 42 to your ~/.emacs. Now your personal files will be added to the
yuuji@56 43 menu when you invoke info. By the way, Mule1 will not release
yuuji@56 44 memories, so processes will pile up and be heavier on the system
yuuji@56 45 compared to Mule2. Nemacs has already become obsolete by the
yuuji@56 46 developers, so no further comments for usage of Nemacs. Get
yuuji@56 47 yourself Mule2 with flying colors :-)
yuuji@54 48
yuuji@54 49 *Emacs can't find the help file.
yuuji@56 50
yuuji@56 51 The help file is set to be placed in $EMACS/etc/ for Nemacs,
yuuji@56 52 Mule1 and $EMACS/site-lisp/ for Mule2. If you don't have the
yuuji@56 53 privilege to put them in a public location, copy it to your home
yuuji@56 54 directory and set YaTeX-help-file to that file name.
yuuji@54 55
yuuji@54 56 *I can't read info on Nemacs
yuuji@54 57
yuuji@56 58 The info file was formatted on Mule, so it can't be read
yuuji@56 59 correctly on Nemacs (or Demacs based on Nemacs) because the
yuuji@56 60 internal Japanese processing is different. Read it on Mule.
yuuji@56 61 Use the Emacs-Lisp package in texinfo-3.1.tar.gz to format the
yuuji@56 62 Texinfo file.
yuuji@54 63
yuuji@54 64
yuuji@54 65 [Operations]
yuuji@56 66 ============
yuuji@54 67 *I accidentally learned in a wrong LaTeX command.
yuuji@54 68
yuuji@58 69 There should be a line with the wrong command in the .yatexrc
yuuji@58 70 file in your home or current directory. Erase or fix that line,
yuuji@58 71 and save the results with C-x C-s, then kill buffer with C-x k.
yuuji@58 72 Once you make sure the current buffer is your LaTeX source, type
yuuji@58 73 M-x YaTeX-reload-dictionary.
yuuji@54 74
yuuji@54 75 *I can't comment out the region.
yuuji@54 76
yuuji@56 77 Probably the point is on a line withe \begin{} or \end{}. Go up
yuuji@56 78 or down a line and do C-c >.
yuuji@54 79
yuuji@54 80 *I was asked for a parent file when typesetting, and answered the wrong file.
yuuji@54 81
yuuji@56 82 Re-read the child file with C-x C-v RET or re-type the parent
yuuji@56 83 file with C-u C-c ^.
yuuji@54 84
yuuji@54 85 *The typeset buffer is not shown when I get a typeset buffer on Demacs.
yuuji@54 86
yuuji@56 87 This happens on Demacs 1.2.0, when the child process returns an
yuuji@56 88 error level of 1 or more. If you are calling jlatex from a
yuuji@56 89 batch file, call a dummy command that always returns errorlevel
yuuji@56 90 0 at the end.
yuuji@54 91
yuuji@54 92 *How can I enter "\underline{\makebox[4em][l]{x y}{\tt z}}" more easily?
yuuji@54 93
yuuji@56 94 Recursive completion can be used for inputting arguments in the
yuuji@56 95 mini-buffer of a section type completion. Following is an
yuuji@56 96 example showing the command in question.
yuuji@54 97
yuuji@56 98 PROMPT KEYs ENTERED
yuuji@56 99 C-c s und SPC RET
yuuji@56 100 \underline{???}: C-c s makeb SPC RET
yuuji@56 101 Width: 4em RET
yuuji@56 102 makebox position (`lr'): - l RET
yuuji@56 103 \makebox{???}: x y RET
yuuji@56 104 \underline{???}: \makebox[4em][l]{x y} C-c l tt RET
yuuji@56 105 \underline{???}: \makebox[4em][l]{x y}{\tt } z RET
yuuji@54 106
yuuji@54 107 *How can I kill \footnote{} from \footnote{HOGE}
yuuji@54 108
yuuji@56 109 Put the point to \footnote and do C-c k. This will kill the
yuuji@56 110 \footnote{}. If you want to kill the whole thing including
yuuji@56 111 HOGE, do C-u C-c k.
yuuji@54 112
yuuji@54 113 *I want to make HONYARA into a footnote.
yuuji@54 114
yuuji@54 115 Mark HONYARA and do C-c S footnote RET. (S in uppercase)
yuuji@54 116
yuuji@54 117 *I want to make the verbatim environment I have now into verbatim*.
yuuji@54 118
yuuji@54 119 Do C-c c on the line with \begin{verbatim} or \end{verbatim}.
yuuji@54 120
yuuji@54 121 *I want to enclose a region with \verb.
yuuji@54 122
yuuji@54 123 \verb isn't a maketitle-type, so there aren't any quick commands.
yuuji@54 124 But you can use C-c $ to do the same thing.
yuuji@56 125 v v
yuuji@54 126 WHAT YOU NEED to make \verb
yuuji@56 127 \verbWHAT YOU NEED to make \verb (insert \verb)
yuuji@56 128 ^(C-@) (mark W)
yuuji@56 129 \verbWHAT YOU NEED to make \verb
yuuji@56 130 ^C-c $ (move point to end enclose with $)
yuuji@56 131 \verb$WHAT YOU NEED$ to make \verb (done!)
yuuji@54 132
yuuji@54 133 *I want to have commands defined on a upper level file to be read in
yuuji@54 134 when doing a typeset-region on a child file.
yuuji@54 135
yuuji@56 136 When you are editing child files broken into sections and some
yuuji@56 137 macros to be used are defined in upper level files, you'll need
yuuji@56 138 them to do typeset-region. The macros needed will be copied to
yuuji@56 139 the temporary file if you add %#REQUIRE to the end of the
yuuji@56 140 macro's definition.
yuuji@54 141
yuuji@54 142 Say you had a grand-child file
yuuji@54 143 +-- main.tex --+ +---- sub.tex ----+ +-- subsub.tex --+
yuuji@54 144 | : | |%#jlatex main | |%#jlatex main |
yuuji@54 145 |\include{sub} | |\include{macros} | |..... |
yuuji@54 146 | : |<-| : |<-|%#BEGIN |
yuuji@54 147 | : | | : | |TEXT YOU WANT |
yuuji@54 148 | : | +-----------------+ |TYPESET IS |
yuuji@54 149 +--------------+ ^ |HERE |
yuuji@54 150 +-- macros.tex ---+ |%#END |
yuuji@56 151 |\def\foo{bar} | |: |
yuuji@56 152 |\def\hoge{hero} | +----------------+
yuuji@56 153 +-----------------+
yuuji@54 154
yuuji@54 155 In this case you change the \include{macros} line in sub.tex to
yuuji@54 156
yuuji@54 157 \include{macros} %#REQUIRE
yuuji@54 158
yuuji@54 159 and add to subsub.tex
yuuji@54 160
yuuji@54 161 %#REQUIRE \include{macros}
yuuji@54 162
yuuji@56 163 If %#REQUIRE is at the top of the line, the following will be
yuuji@56 164 copied to the temporary file. So, macros.tex will be included
yuuji@56 165 only once whether you are typesetting all the files, or doing a
yuuji@56 166 typeset-region on sub.tex or subsub.tex.
yuuji@54 167
yuuji@54 168 *I want to reuse ARGUMENTS I used in the last \foo{ARGUMENTS}
yuuji@54 169
yuuji@56 170 Use the gmhist package. YaTeX works fine with gmhist. When you
yuuji@56 171 are asked \foo{???}: in the mini-buffer, hitting M-p (ESC p)
yuuji@56 172 will get you a history of what you have inputted in reverse.
yuuji@56 173 M-n will go forward in the history. This input history can be
yuuji@56 174 used for begin-type completion, section-type completion, evoking
yuuji@56 175 the previewer, and print out commands.
yuuji@54 176
yuuji@56 177 gmhist can be found at many Emacs-Lisp archive sights. For
yuuji@56 178 example, ftp.ae.keio.ac.jp:pub/emacs-lisp/util/gmhist.tar.gz
yuuji@56 179
yuuji@56 180 Note that Emacs-19(Mule2) doesn't need gmhist for the feature of
yuuji@56 181 minibuffer history.
yuuji@54 182
yuuji@54 183 *ref<->label jump doesn't work.
yuuji@54 184
yuuji@56 185 C-c g will start a forward search of ref/label. C-u C-c g will
yuuji@56 186 start a backward search. If you want to continue searching for
yuuji@56 187 \ref, hit C-s (C-r) twice and use the repeated search feature of
yuuji@56 188 the incremental search. If the point to jump is in another
yuuji@56 189 file, that file must be already opened. YaTeX-display-hierarchy
yuuji@56 190 (C-c d) can be used to open all files at once.
yuuji@54 191
yuuji@54 192 *I get a % at the end of the line when I do a fill-paragraph or auto-fill.
yuuji@54 193
yuuji@56 194 NTT-jTeX will add an unnecessary space in the print out image if
yuuji@56 195 the japanese paragraph is written with an indent. To avoid
yuuji@56 196 this, you need to put a % at the end of the line. YaTeX will
yuuji@56 197 automatically put a % so you can input indented text for
yuuji@56 198 NTT-jTeX. But there may be a bug in the routine so please
yuuji@56 199 report if you find any %s otherwise than at the end of a line.
yuuji@54 200
yuuji@54 201 *Isn't the indentation too deep in itemize environments?
yuuji@54 202
yuuji@56 203 Think so too? An alias Mr. K thought this was better and he
yuuji@56 204 feels an ultimate ecstacy with hitting the TAB to indent a line.
yuuji@56 205 Wasn't my idea! (still have a bit of a grudge) If you also
yuuji@56 206 think it's too deep, hit TAB at the end of the line with
yuuji@56 207 \begin{itemize} within the environment. Now it's too shallow?
yuuji@56 208 Umm... time for me to take a break.
yuuji@54 209
yuuji@57 210 *Is it possible to include personal template file template.tex handily?
yuuji@57 211
yuuji@57 212 Try Emacs-19's standard package `autoinsert.el' please. Or its
yuuji@57 213 upper compatible package auto-insert-tkld might also be good.
yuuji@57 214 You can get auto-insert-tkld via anonymous ftp
yuuji@57 215 ftp://ftp.ae.keio.ac.jp/pub/emacs-lisp/util/
yuuji@57 216 ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/gnu/elisp-archive/
yuuji@57 217
yuuji@60 218 *It is bothering for me to determine I should call bibtex or latex...
yuuji@60 219
yuuji@60 220 Why don't you try `latexmk' perl script, which is a TeX specific
yuuji@60 221 tool as `make'? It detects the dependency among the TeX-related
yuuji@60 222 files such as .tex, .bib, and so on, and will execute suitable
yuuji@60 223 commands in a suitable sequence. You can find `latexmk' script
yuuji@60 224 in a directory of supports/latexmk in some CTAN ftp directory.
yuuji@60 225
yuuji@69 226 *Can I inhibit auto-filling against very long <a href="..."> line?
yuuji@69 227
yuuji@69 228 If you use Emacs-19 or later, Yes. The variable
yuuji@69 229 auto-fill-inhibit-regexp controls the filling behaviour. To set
yuuji@69 230 this, use yatex-mode-hook as below.
yuuji@69 231
yuuji@69 232 (add-hook 'yahtml-mode-hook
yuuji@69 233 '(lambda ()
yuuji@69 234 (setq auto-fill-inhibit-regexp
yuuji@69 235 "^[ ]*\\(<a href\\|<img src=\\)")))
yuuji@69 236
yuuji@60 237 *Filling a paragraph doesn't work as I expected.
yuuji@60 238
yuuji@60 239 It is because the indentation depth is different from default
yuuji@60 240 depth. Please keep turning on auto-fill to make filling
yuuji@60 241 function work well. If you bring some paragraph which has
yuuji@60 242 different indentation from other part of document, you have to
yuuji@60 243 re-indent it with the default indentation by typing TAB on each
yuuji@60 244 line. If the paragraph is large, try the next operation;
yuuji@60 245
yuuji@60 246 (1)Type C-x . on the beginning of line
yuuji@60 247 (2)Mark paragraph to be re-indented
yuuji@60 248 (3)Type M-C-\
yuuji@60 249
yuuji@60 250 then fill the paragraph. If you want fill that paragraph with
yuuji@60 251 current indentation depth, move the cursor on the first
yuuji@60 252 appearance of non-white-space character on the line before
yuuji@60 253 filling.
yuuji@60 254
yuuji@56 255 [About Emacs-19/Mule2]
yuuji@56 256 ======================
yuuji@56 257 *Equations are too dark to read when I use hilit19.
yuuji@54 258
yuuji@54 259 The default coloring of hilit19.el is too dark. Try putting the
yuuji@54 260 next code in ~/.emacs or yatexhks.el.
yuuji@54 261
yuuji@54 262 (if (and (featurep 'hilit19) (eq hilit-background-mode 'dark))
yuuji@54 263 (hilit-translate
yuuji@54 264 string 'mediumspringgreen
yuuji@54 265 formula 'khaki
yuuji@54 266 label 'yellow-underlined))
yuuji@54 267
yuuji@54 268 *Can't I use font-lock?
yuuji@54 269
yuuji@72 270 Since v1.69, YES on XEmacs-21, Emacs-21, Emacs-20.7.
yuuji@72 271
yuuji@72 272 Before starting YaTeX, load font-lock to make it work. However,
yuuji@72 273 YaTeX makes tricky patterns to fontifying logical area
yuuji@72 274 independent from `line', changing of font-lock's specification
yuuji@72 275 in the future will possibly disable YaTeX from fontifying. If
yuuji@72 276 you are thinking of graduating from hilit19, it might be better
yuuji@72 277 to keep old setting about it...
yuuji@72 278
yuuji@54 279 *It's sooo slow when I click YaTeX on the menu bar.
yuuji@54 280
yuuji@56 281 I don't know why. Probably a problem with Emacs-19. You'll
yuuji@56 282 just have to bear with it. It won't be so slow the second time.
yuuji@56 283 Anyway, you probably won't use the menu at all, do you?
yuuji@56 284
yuuji@56 285 *Is there any way of displaying `\it' strings in the italic font?
yuuji@56 286
yuuji@56 287 First, you should find the available italic font on your
yuuji@56 288 system. In, *scratch* buffer,
yuuji@56 289 (set-face-font 'italic "-*-*-medium-i-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
yuuji@56 290 or
yuuji@56 291 (set-face-font 'italic "-*-*-medium-o-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
yuuji@56 292 and C-j (It takes very very long time!!).
yuuji@56 293 If you get `No matches found', no way. (;_;)/~
yuuji@56 294 If you get some font name,
yuuji@56 295 "-adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1"
yuuji@56 296 for example, write
yuuji@56 297 (set-face-font 'italic
yuuji@56 298 "-adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1")
yuuji@56 299 in your `yatexhks.el'.
yuuji@54 300
yuuji@54 301 [Customization]
yuuji@56 302 ===============
yuuji@54 303 *I don't use C-c b i much, so it would be better if I can start
yuuji@54 304 completion after hitting C-c b.
yuuji@54 305
yuuji@54 306 Put (setq YaTeX-no-begend-shortcut t) in your ~/.emacs.
yuuji@54 307
yuuji@54 308 *An open parenthesis always get entered in pairs.
yuuji@54 309
yuuji@56 310 This should be better, once you get used to it. If you still
yuuji@56 311 don't like it, turn on modify-mode using C-c w m. Setting
yuuji@56 312 YaTeX-close-paren-always to nil will give this feature from the
yuuji@56 313 start.
yuuji@54 314
yuuji@54 315 *Funny things happen when I hit ;.
yuuji@54 316
yuuji@56 317 YaTeX think you are in math mode and evokes math-mode-image
yuuji@56 318 completion. If you are writing a equation that TeX will not
yuuji@56 319 give an error and YaTeX mistakes what mode you are in, report it
yuuji@56 320 back to the author. For mistaken judgements or if you want to
yuuji@56 321 enter a literal ;, hit ; twice. C-u ; to use ; as a
yuuji@56 322 image-completion prefix.
yuuji@54 323
yuuji@54 324 *I want YaTeX to enter the option arguments for a newenvironment.
yuuji@54 325
yuuji@56 326 Read yatexadd.doc. If that's not enough, read yatexgen.doc and
yuuji@56 327 try M-x YaTeX-generate.
yuuji@54 328
yuuji@54 329 *I first defined \foo as a macro taking 3 arguments. Later I changed it
yuuji@54 330 to take 4 arguments, but the section-type completion will ask me for
yuuji@54 331 only 3 arguments.
yuuji@54 332
yuuji@56 333 Use C-u 4 C-c s and tell it will take 4 arguments. You can
yuuji@56 334 change the number of arguments anytime you want.
yuuji@54 335
yuuji@54 336 *I made a argument-type addin function, but can't do completion after
yuuji@54 337 the first two arguments.
yuuji@54 338
yuuji@56 339 If you made a addin function like \foo{x}{y}{z} that takes 3
yuuji@56 340 arguments, then you need to learn in the dictionary that \foo
yuuji@56 341 will take 3 arguments. This can be done by C-u 3 C-c s foo.
yuuji@56 342 You only need to do it once.
yuuji@54 343
yuuji@54 344 *My addin functions are overwritten by yatexadd.
yuuji@54 345
yuuji@56 346 Formally, all private functions were written in your own
yuuji@56 347 yatexadd.el. Now, all private functions are put in yatexhks.el.
yuuji@56 348 yatexhks.el will be read in at the end of YaTeX's
yuuji@56 349 initialization, so you can overwrite definitions in yatexadd.el.
yuuji@54 350
yuuji@58 351 *Can I make intelligent newline work for my `mylist' environment?
yuuji@58 352
yuuji@58 353 Yes. See the section `Intelligent newline' in the info manual.
yuuji@58 354 But if you want the same as the intelligent newline for itemize
yuuji@58 355 environment which inserts simply `\item', the following code is
yuuji@58 356 efficient.
yuuji@58 357
yuuji@58 358 (fset 'YaTeX-intelligent-newline-mylist
yuuji@58 359 'YaTeX-intelligent-newline-itemize)
yuuji@58 360
yuuji@54 361 [ETC]
yuuji@56 362 =====
yuuji@54 363 *Mailing lists?
yuuji@54 364
yuuji@72 365 A question, so an answer. The mailing list for YaTeX (Wild Bird)
yuuji@72 366 and it's implementation to Vz Editor; LaiTeX (Thunder Bird, by
yuuji@72 367 KATSURAGAWA Naoki), implementation to Wz Editor; HackTeX (Swan,
yuuji@72 368 by TAKENAKA Hiroshi), implementation to Hidemaru Editor; HiTeX
yuuji@75 369 (Flying Bird, by YASUDA Haruyuki), implementation to xyzzy;
yuuji@75 370 KaTeX (by MAEDA Manabu) is "fj Wild Bird Society".
yuuji@72 371 Send a mail like
yuuji@54 372
yuuji@70 373 To: yatex@yatex.org
yuuji@75 374 Subject: subscribe
yuuji@54 375 -----
yuuji@70 376 Hi!
yuuji@70 377 My name is yuuji.
yuuji@69 378 See any birds fly by?
yuuji@56 379
yuuji@70 380 and you're in. Once you're in, you'll get a reply with lists of
yuuji@70 381 commands used in the mailing list. Join along and help adding
yuuji@70 382 new feathers to Wild Bird. BTW, if you haven't guessed it yet,
yuuji@70 383 yes, this mailing list is in Japanese. But give us a try
yuuji@70 384 anyway. You're always welcome.
yuuji@54 385
yuuji@58 386 *How to get the up-to-date information on YaTeX?
yuuji@58 387
yuuji@58 388 If you can access WWW, try to see;
yuuji@69 389 http://www.yatex.org/
yuuji@58 390 And if you trace the link of `yatex-current', you can get the
yuuji@58 391 really latest version of YaTeX. Since it collects the elisps in
yuuji@58 392 the author's source directory, what you'll get may contain some
yuuji@58 393 errors. The author cannot respond to your query about
yuuji@58 394 yatex-current.
yuuji@58 395
yuuji@54 396 *Help, help HELP!!
yuuji@54 397
yuuji@54 398 Ways of getting answers in fastest order.
yuuji@54 399
yuuji@54 400 *Look for someone near you who knows what's he/she's doing.
yuuji@54 401 *Post a question to the mailing list.
yuuji@70 402 *Send mail to yuuji@yatex.org
yuuji@54 403
yuuji@54 404 take a pick.
yuuji@54 405
yuuji@54 406 *Picking a question in this file with C-u C-x $ and hitting C-x $ takes
yuuji@54 407 me to a weird world.
yuuji@54 408
yuuji@56 409 You too? Try marking the question before C-x $ and to C-x C-x
yuuji@56 410 to take you back to it. (Mule2 doesn't seem to have the same
yuuji@56 411 problem)
yuuji@54 412
yuuji@54 413
yuuji@54 414 Local Variables:
yuuji@54 415 mode: indented-text
yuuji@54 416 fill-column: 72
yuuji@54 417 fill-prefix: " "
yuuji@54 418 End:
yuuji@54 419