[Tugindia] TeXnic Center

[Gary Hoffman]

S. venkataraman wrote:

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>>From: David Kastrup [mailto:dak at gnu.org] 
>>Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:55 PM
>>To: TUGIndia Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [Tugindia] TeXnic Center
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>>Gary L Hoffman <glhoffman at cox.net> writes:
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>>>There is no doubt that Kile is the most advanced Latex 
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>>editor on any 
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>>>operating system.
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>>No doubt?  Cough, cough.
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>>Take a look at Emacs <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs> 
>>with RefTeX 
>><URL:http://zon.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/reftex/>, AUCTeX 
>><URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex>, preview-latex 
>><URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net> and x-symbol 
>><URL:http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net> and say that again, 
>>trying to keep a straight face.
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>I do agree that emacs+auctex+reftex+previewlatex is an unbeatable
>Combination provided one is comfortable with the fact that you have
> to give commands like C-x,C-s instead of just C-s in the case of Kile.
>Kile
> is closer to windows in terms of commands, and almost all the standard 
> windows keyboard shortcuts work on Kile. For a fresh migrant from
>Windows
> particularly Kile is something like texniccenter. I prefer  emacs and 
> friends. Incidentally, the files for emacs windows version and files 
> for auctex have disappeared from GNU mirror site. Does anyone have 
> any idea when will they be back?  It is nearly a couple of months or
>more now.
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> I would like to use some latex packages that need a preprocessor like
>devanagari
> package with emacs. Let us assume we want to use devanagari package. It
>would be nice 
> emacs and friends identify the .dn files and know what to do with them.
>For example, if I want to process the file misspaal.dn, I should be able
>to run the preprocessor from the auctex interface and produce
>misspaal.tex. (This will be possible only if emacs recognises that this
>file with .dn extension has something to with auctex, just as it
>recognises that a file with .tex extension is a (la)tex file and loads
>the menus. ) After this, one should be able to run latex on 
> misspaal.tex without opening that file in the emacs editor.
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> Has anybody managed it?
>With best regards,
>S. Venkataraman.
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Two comments.

First, Sebastian Rahtz has created a package that includes Emacs, AUCTeX 
and an nxml mode (for dealing with Relax NG schema).  It may be found at 
http://www.tei-c.org/Software/tei-emacs/.  It is available in both 
Windows and Linux/Unix versions.

Second, I wish to qualify my previous statement.  Kile is the most 
advanced "out of the box" Latex editor.  By "out of the box,"  I mean 
that it is easy to install and  ready  to use by anyone, especially the 
neophyte.  Having said that, David's combination of packages/programs 
appears intriguing; but it is no mean task to assemble them.  May I 
suggest, David, that you follow Sebastian's example and compile a 
package so that all of these packages/programs can be installed in a 
single execution. And, while your at it, please give some consideration 
to including context.el.

Regards,

Gary Hoffman