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[David Kastrup]

Gary Hoffman <glhoffman at cox.net> writes:

> 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.

Sure.  Following the instructions in README.Windows, fetching MSYS by
clicking on the given link, installing it in that manner, starting it
as described, typing
./configure
make
make install
is certainly a hard task, and doing exactly the same for preview-latex
will prove even harder.

Using either a recent CVS Emacs (for which Windows snapshots are
available) or XEmacs for Windows, it takes about 15 minutes of
following instructions to set this up.  I don't quite remember whether
the procedure was already as robust with AUCTeX-11.14, the last
officially released version.

> 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.

I don't use Windows.  All major Linux and BSD distributions offer
already prepackaged versions of emacs, AUCTeX and preview-latex.  If
all of the Linux and BSD distributors manage to create a package from
instructions, some Windows user should be able to do the same.  In
particular since the installation instructions for Windows are much
more detailed.

If the Windows community find itself unable to organize packaging and
distributing things that are already explained well, there is not
much I can do to help, not being a Windows user myself.  I fix all
problems reported (and paths like "C:\My Program" are not trivial to
cater for using autoconf), and include the instructions given by
those that afflict themselves to Windows, but if no active developer
finds it worth the bother to build packages or test stuff between
releases for that platform, that's none of my business.

> And, while your at it, please give some consideration to including
> context.el.

The next version of AUCTeX will come with a ConTeXt mode of its own.
I expect to release the next preview-latex version next week, and an
AUCTeX snapshot shortly after that.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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