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*It is bothering for me to determine I should call bibtex or latex...
*Filling a paragraph doesn't work as I expected.
[Installation]
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*Installing the manual
Copy yatexe to the info directory where your Emacs is installed,
and add the next line to the dir file of the same directory.
* YaTeX-e: (yatexe). Yet Another tex-mode for Emacs. (English).
(After that, M-x info [RET] m yatex [RET] will give you Wild
Bird's manual. Hitting ? will show how to use info)
*I'm a Meadow(Emacs on Win32) user. I don't have `make' utility
Make program is needed only for byte-compiling. So if you do
not care the subtle speed difference, you don't have to
byte-compile. You don't have to look for `make' utility. The
simplest way to install yatex without `make'.
1 Extract this yatex*tar.gz to your Meadow's site-lisp dir.
2 Add the yatex installed path to your load-path according to
`install' file in this package.
*I ain't got the privilege to write in the Info directory...
Get yourself made root. If you can't, have them install Mule2
and add
(setq Info-default-directory-list
(cons "YOUR INFO DIRECTORY"
Info-default-directory-list))
to your ~/.emacs. Now your personal files will be added to the
menu when you invoke info. By the way, Mule1 will not release
memories, so processes will pile up and be heavier on the system
compared to Mule2. Nemacs has already become obsolete by the
developers, so no further comments for usage of Nemacs. Get
yourself Mule2 with flying colors :-)
*Emacs can't find the help file.
The help file is set to be placed in $EMACS/etc/ for Nemacs,
Mule1 and $EMACS/site-lisp/ for Mule2. If you don't have the
privilege to put them in a public location, copy it to your home
directory and set YaTeX-help-file to that file name.
*I can't read info on Nemacs
The info file was formatted on Mule, so it can't be read
correctly on Nemacs (or Demacs based on Nemacs) because the
internal Japanese processing is different. Read it on Mule.
Use the Emacs-Lisp package in texinfo-3.1.tar.gz to format the
Texinfo file.
[Operations]
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*I accidentally learned in a wrong LaTeX command.
There should be a line with the wrong command in the .yatexrc
file in your home or current directory. Erase or fix that line,
and save the results with C-x C-s, then kill buffer with C-x k.
Once you make sure the current buffer is your LaTeX source, type
M-x YaTeX-reload-dictionary.
*I can't comment out the region.
Probably the point is on a line withe \begin{} or \end{}. Go up
or down a line and do C-c >.
*I was asked for a parent file when typesetting, and answered the wrong file.
Re-read the child file with C-x C-v RET or re-type the parent
file with C-u C-c ^.
*The typeset buffer is not shown when I get a typeset buffer on Demacs.
This happens on Demacs 1.2.0, when the child process returns an
error level of 1 or more. If you are calling jlatex from a
batch file, call a dummy command that always returns errorlevel
0 at the end.
*How can I enter "\underline{\makebox[4em][l]{x y}{\tt z}}" more easily?
Recursive completion can be used for inputting arguments in the
mini-buffer of a section type completion. Following is an
example showing the command in question.
PROMPT KEYs ENTERED
C-c s und SPC RET
\underline{???}: C-c s makeb SPC RET
Width: 4em RET
makebox position (`lr'): - l RET
\makebox{???}: x y RET
\underline{???}: \makebox[4em][l]{x y} C-c l tt RET
\underline{???}: \makebox[4em][l]{x y}{\tt } z RET
*How can I kill \footnote{} from \footnote{HOGE}
Put the point to \footnote and do C-c k. This will kill the
\footnote{}. If you want to kill the whole thing including
HOGE, do C-u C-c k.
*I want to make HONYARA into a footnote.
Mark HONYARA and do C-c S footnote RET. (S in uppercase)
*I want to make the verbatim environment I have now into verbatim*.
Do C-c c on the line with \begin{verbatim} or \end{verbatim}.
*I want to enclose a region with \verb.
\verb isn't a maketitle-type, so there aren't any quick commands.
But you can use C-c $ to do the same thing.
v v
WHAT YOU NEED to make \verb
\verbWHAT YOU NEED to make \verb (insert \verb)
^(C-@) (mark W)
\verbWHAT YOU NEED to make \verb
^C-c $ (move point to end enclose with $)
\verb$WHAT YOU NEED$ to make \verb (done!)
*I want to have commands defined on a upper level file to be read in
when doing a typeset-region on a child file.
When you are editing child files broken into sections and some
macros to be used are defined in upper level files, you'll need
them to do typeset-region. The macros needed will be copied to
the temporary file if you add %#REQUIRE to the end of the
macro's definition.
Say you had a grand-child file
+-- main.tex --+ +---- sub.tex ----+ +-- subsub.tex --+
| : | |%#jlatex main | |%#jlatex main |
|\include{sub} | |\include{macros} | |..... |
| : |<-| : |<-|%#BEGIN |
| : | | : | |TEXT YOU WANT |
| : | +-----------------+ |TYPESET IS |
+--------------+ ^ |HERE |
+-- macros.tex ---+ |%#END |
|\def\foo{bar} | |: |
|\def\hoge{hero} | +----------------+
+-----------------+
In this case you change the \include{macros} line in sub.tex to
\include{macros} %#REQUIRE
and add to subsub.tex
%#REQUIRE \include{macros}
If %#REQUIRE is at the top of the line, the following will be
copied to the temporary file. So, macros.tex will be included
only once whether you are typesetting all the files, or doing a
typeset-region on sub.tex or subsub.tex.
*I want to reuse ARGUMENTS I used in the last \foo{ARGUMENTS}
Use the gmhist package. YaTeX works fine with gmhist. When you
are asked \foo{???}: in the mini-buffer, hitting M-p (ESC p)
will get you a history of what you have inputted in reverse.
M-n will go forward in the history. This input history can be
used for begin-type completion, section-type completion, evoking
the previewer, and print out commands.
gmhist can be found at many Emacs-Lisp archive sights. For
example, ftp.ae.keio.ac.jp:pub/emacs-lisp/util/gmhist.tar.gz
Note that Emacs-19(Mule2) doesn't need gmhist for the feature of
minibuffer history.
*ref<->label jump doesn't work.
C-c g will start a forward search of ref/label. C-u C-c g will
start a backward search. If you want to continue searching for
\ref, hit C-s (C-r) twice and use the repeated search feature of
the incremental search. If the point to jump is in another
file, that file must be already opened. YaTeX-display-hierarchy
(C-c d) can be used to open all files at once.
*I get a % at the end of the line when I do a fill-paragraph or auto-fill.
NTT-jTeX will add an unnecessary space in the print out image if
the japanese paragraph is written with an indent. To avoid
this, you need to put a % at the end of the line. YaTeX will
automatically put a % so you can input indented text for
NTT-jTeX. But there may be a bug in the routine so please
report if you find any %s otherwise than at the end of a line.
*Isn't the indentation too deep in itemize environments?
Think so too? An alias Mr. K thought this was better and he
feels an ultimate ecstacy with hitting the TAB to indent a line.
Wasn't my idea! (still have a bit of a grudge) If you also
think it's too deep, hit TAB at the end of the line with
\begin{itemize} within the environment. Now it's too shallow?
Umm... time for me to take a break.
*Is it possible to include personal template file template.tex handily?
Try Emacs-19's standard package `autoinsert.el' please. Or its
upper compatible package auto-insert-tkld might also be good.
You can get auto-insert-tkld via anonymous ftp
ftp://ftp.ae.keio.ac.jp/pub/emacs-lisp/util/
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/gnu/elisp-archive/
*It is bothering for me to determine I should call bibtex or latex...
Why don't you try `latexmk' perl script, which is a TeX specific
tool as `make'? It detects the dependency among the TeX-related
files such as .tex, .bib, and so on, and will execute suitable
commands in a suitable sequence. You can find `latexmk' script
in a directory of supports/latexmk in some CTAN ftp directory.
*Can I inhibit auto-filling against very long line?
If you use Emacs-19 or later, Yes. The variable
auto-fill-inhibit-regexp controls the filling behaviour. To set
this, use yatex-mode-hook as below.
(add-hook 'yahtml-mode-hook
'(lambda ()
(setq auto-fill-inhibit-regexp
"^[ ]*\\(