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The most powerful features of AUCTeX may be those allowing you to run
TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt and other external commands like BibTeX
and makeindex
from within Emacs, viewing and printing the
results, and moreover allowing you to debug your documents.
AUCTeX comes with a special tool bar for TeX and LaTeX which
provides buttons for the most important commands. You can enable or
disable it by customizing the options plain-TeX-enable-toolbar
and LaTeX-enable-toolbar
in the TeX-tool-bar
customization
group.
• Commands: | Invoking external commands. | |
• Viewing: | Invoking external viewers. | |
• Debugging: | Debugging TeX and LaTeX output. | |
• Checking: | Checking the document. | |
• Control: | Controlling the processes. | |
• Cleaning: | Cleaning intermediate and output files. | |
• Documentation: | Documentation about macros and packages. |
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Formatting the document with TeX, LaTeX or ConTeXt, viewing
with a previewer, printing the document, running BibTeX, making an
index, or checking the document with lacheck
or
chktex
all require running an external command.
• Starting a Command: | Starting a Command on a Document or Region | |
• Selecting a Command: | Selecting and Executing a Command | |
• Processor Options: | Options for TeX Processors |
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There are two ways to run an external command, you can either run it on
the current document with TeX-command-master
, or on the current
region with TeX-command-region
. A special case of running TeX
on a region is TeX-command-buffer
which differs from
TeX-command-master
if the current buffer is not its own master
file.
(C-c C-c) Query the user for a command, and run it on the master
file associated with the current buffer. The name of the master file is
controlled by the variable TeX-master
. The available commands are
controlled by the variable TeX-command-list
.
(C-c C-r) Query the user for a command, and run it on the contents
of the selected region. The region contents are written into the region
file, after extracting the header and trailer from the master file. If
mark is inactive (which can happen with Transient Mark mode), use the
old region. See also the command TeX-pin-region
about how to fix
a region.
The name of the region file is controlled by the variable
TeX-region
. The name of the master file is controlled by the
variable TeX-master
. The header is all text up to the line
matching the regular expression TeX-header-end
. The trailer is
all text from the line matching the regular expression
TeX-trailer-start
. The available commands are controlled by the
variable TeX-command-list
.
(C-c C-b) Query the user for a command, and apply it to the contents of the current buffer. The buffer contents are written into the region file, after extracting the header and trailer from the master file. The command is then actually run on the region file. See above for details.
(C-c C-z) Query the user for a command, and apply it to the
current section (or part, chapter, subsection, paragraph, or
subparagraph). What makes the current section is determined by
LaTeX-command-section-level
which can be enlarged/shrunken using
LaTeX-command-section-change-level
(C-c M-z). The given
numeric prefix arg is added to the current value of
LaTeX-command-section-level
. By default,
LaTeX-command-section-level
is initialized with the current
document’s LaTeX-largest-level
. The buffer contents are written
into the region file, after extracting the header and trailer from the
master file. The command is then actually run on the region file. See
TeX-command-region
for details.
It is also possible to compile automatically the whole document until it
is ready with a single command: TeX-command-run-all
.
(C-c C-a) Compile the current document until an error occurs or it is finished. If compilation finishes successfully, run the viewer at the end.
Here are some relevant variables.
The name of the file for temporarily storing the text when formatting the current region.
A regular expression matching the end of the header. By default, this is ‘\begin{document}’ in LaTeX mode and ‘%**end of header’ in TeX mode.
A regular expression matching the start of the trailer. By default, this is ‘\end{document}’ in LaTeX mode and ‘\bye’ in TeX mode.
If you want to change the values of TeX-header-end
and
TeX-trailer-start
you can do this for all files by setting the
variables in a mode hook or per file by specifying them as file
variables (see File Variables in The Emacs Editor).
(C-c C-t C-r) If you don’t have a mode like Transient Mark mode
active, where marks get disabled automatically, the region would need to
get properly set before each call to TeX-command-region
. If you
fix the current region with C-c C-t C-r, then it will get used for
more commands even though mark and point may change. An explicitly
activated mark, however, will always define a new region when calling
TeX-command-region
.
AUCTeX will allow one process for each document, plus one process for the region file to be active at the same time. Thus, if you are editing n different documents, you can have n plus one processes running at the same time. If the last process you started was on the region, the commands described in Debugging and Control will work on that process, otherwise they will work on the process associated with the current document.
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Once you started the command selection with C-c C-c, C-c C-r or C-c C-b you will be prompted for the type of command. AUCTeX will try to guess which command is appropriate in the given situation and propose it as default. Usually this is a processor like ‘TeX’ or ‘LaTeX’ if the document was changed or a viewer if the document was just typeset. Other commands can be selected in the minibuffer with completion support by typing TAB.
The available commands are defined by the variable
TeX-command-list
. Per default it includes commands for
typesetting the document (e.g. ‘LaTeX’), for viewing the output
(‘View’), for printing (‘Print’), for generating an index
(‘Index’) or for spell checking (‘Spell’) to name but a few.
You can also add your own commands by adding entries to
TeX-command-list
. Refer to its doc string for information about
its syntax. You might also want to look at TeX-expand-list
to
learn about the expanders you can use in TeX-command-list
.
Note that the default of the variable occasionally changes. Therefore
it is advisable to add to the list rather than overwriting it. You can
do this with a call to add-to-list
in your init file. For
example, if you wanted to add a command for running a program called
‘foo’ on the master or region file, you could do this with the
following form.
(eval-after-load "tex" '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list '("Foo" "foo %s" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run foo") t))
As mentioned before, AUCTeX will try to guess what command you want
to invoke. If you want to use another command than ‘TeX’,
‘LaTeX’ or whatever processor AUCTeX thinks is appropriate for
the current mode, set the variable TeX-command-default
. You can
do this for all files by setting it in a mode hook or per file by
specifying it as a file variable (see File Variables in The
Emacs Editor).
The default command to run in this buffer. Must be an entry in
TeX-command-list
.
In case you use biblatex in a document, when automatic parsing is
enabled AUCTeX checks the value of ‘backend’ option given to
biblatex at load time to decide whether to use BibTeX or Biber for
bibliography processing. Should AUCTeX fail to detect the right
backend, you can use the file local LaTeX-biblatex-use-Biber
variable.
If this boolean variable is set as file local, it tells to AUCTeX whether to use Biber with biblatex. In this case, the autodetection of the biblatex backend will be overridden. You may want to set locally this variable if automatic parsing is not enabled.
After confirming a command to execute, AUCTeX will try to save any
buffers related to the document, and check if the document needs to be
reformatted. If the variable TeX-save-query
is non-nil,
AUCTeX will query before saving each file. By default AUCTeX will
check emacs buffers associated with files in the current directory, in
one of the TeX-macro-private
directories, and in the
TeX-macro-global
directories. You can change this by setting the
variable TeX-check-path
.
Directory path to search for dependencies.
If nil, just check the current file. Used when checking if any files have changed.
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There are some options you can customize affecting which processors are invoked or the way this is done and which output they produce as a result. These options control if DVI or PDF output should be produced, if TeX should be started in interactive or nonstop mode, if source specials or a SyncTeX file should be produced for making inverse and forward search possible or which TeX engine should be used instead of regular TeX, like PDFTeX, Omega or XeTeX, and the style error messages are printed with.
(C-c C-t C-p)
This command toggles the PDF mode of AUCTeX, a buffer-local
minor mode which is enabled by default. You can customize
TeX-PDF-mode
to give it a different default or set it as a file
local variable on a per-document basis. This option usually results in
calling either PDFTeX or ordinary TeX.
If this is set, DVI will also be produced by calling
PDFTeX, setting \pdfoutput=0
. This makes it possible to use
PDFTeX features like character protrusion even when producing
DVI files. Contemporary TeX distributions do this anyway,
so that you need not enable the option within AUCTeX.
(C-c C-t C-i) This command toggles the interactive mode of
AUCTeX, a global minor mode. You can customize
TeX-interactive-mode
to give it a different default. In
interactive mode, TeX will pause with an error prompt when errors are
encountered and wait for the user to type something.
(C-c C-t C-s) Toggles support for forward and inverse search. Forward search refers to jumping to the place in the previewed document corresponding to where point is located in the document source and inverse search to the other way round. See I/O Correlation.
You can permanently activate TeX-source-correlate-mode
by
customizing the variable TeX-source-correlate-mode
. There is a
bunch of customization options for the mode, use M-x
customize-group RET TeX-view RET to find out more.
AUCTeX is aware of three different means to do I/O correlation:
source specials (only DVI output), the pdfsync LaTeX package (only
PDF output) and SyncTeX. The choice between source specials and
SyncTeX can be controlled with the variable
TeX-source-correlate-method
.
Should you use source specials it has to be stressed very strongly however, that source specials can cause differences in page breaks and spacing, can seriously interfere with various packages and should thus never be used for the final version of a document. In particular, fine-tuning the page breaks should be done with source specials switched off.
Sometimes you are requested, by journal rules or packages, to compile
the document into DVI output. Thus, if you want a
PDF document in the end you can either use XeTeX engine,
see below for information about how to set engines, or compile the
document with tex
and then convert to PDF with
dvips
–ps2pdf
before viewing it. The latter can be
done automatically in AUCTeX by setting the
TeX-PDF-via-dvips-ps2pdf
variable to a non-nil value.
With TeX-PDF-mode
set to non-nil, if
TeX-PDF-via-dvips-ps2pdf
is non-nil too, the document is compiled
with tex
(or latex
) instead of pdftex
(or
pdflatex
). When the document is ready, C-c C-c will
suggest to run dvips
and then ps2pdf
in order to
convert the DVI file to PDF. When the PDF
file is finally ready, the next suggested command will be to open the
viewer.
This option can also be set as a file local variable, in order to use
the sequence tex
–dvips
–ps2pdf
on a
per-document basis.
Recall the whole sequence of C-c C-c commands can be replace by the single C-c C-a.
AUCTeX also allows you to easily select different TeX engines for
processing, either by using the entries in the ‘TeXing Options’
submenu below the ‘Command’ menu or by calling the function
TeX-engine-set
. These eventually set the variable
TeX-engine
which you can also modify directly.
This variable allows you to choose which TeX engine should be used
for typesetting the document, i.e. the executables which will be used
when you invoke the ‘TeX’ or ‘LaTeX’ commands. The value
should be one of the symbols defined in TeX-engine-alist-builtin
or TeX-engine-alist
. The symbols ‘default’, ‘xetex’,
‘luatex’ and ‘omega’ are available from the built-in list.
Note that TeX-engine
is buffer-local, so setting the variable
directly or via the above mentioned menu or function will not take
effect in other buffers. If you want to activate an engine for all
AUCTeX modes, set TeX-engine
in your init file, e.g. by using
M-x customize-variable <RET>. If you want to activate it for a
certain AUCTeX mode only, set the variable in the respective mode
hook. If you want to activate it for certain files, set it through file
variables (see File Variables in The Emacs Editor).
Should you need to change the executable names related to the different
engine settings, there are some variables you can tweak. Those are
TeX-command
, LaTeX-command
, TeX-Omega-command
,
LaTeX-Omega-command
, ConTeXt-engine
and
ConTeXt-Omega-engine
. The rest of the executables is defined
directly in TeX-engine-alist-builtin
. If you want to override an
entry from that, add an entry to TeX-engine-alist
that starts
with the same symbol as that the entry in the built-in list and specify
the executables you want to use instead. You can also add entries to
TeX-engine-alist
in order to add support for engines not covered
per default.
Alist of TeX engines and associated commands. Each entry is a list with a maximum of five elements. The first element is a symbol used to identify the engine. The second is a string describing the engine. The third is the command to be used for plain TeX. The fourth is the command to be used for LaTeX. The fifth is the command to be used for the ‘--engine’ parameter of ConTeXt’s ‘texexec’ program. Each command can either be a variable or a string. An empty string or nil means there is no command available.
In some systems, Emacs cannot inherit the PATH environment variable from
the shell and thus AUCTeX may not be able to run TeX commands.
Before running them, AUCTeX checks if it able to find those commands
and will warn you in case it fails. You can skip this test by changing
the option TeX-check-TeX
.
If non-nil, AUCTeX will check if it is able to find a working TeX
distribution before running TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc. It
actually checks if can run TeX-command
command or the shell
returns a command not found error. The error code returned by the shell
in this case can be set in TeX-check-TeX-command-not-found
option.
Some LaTeX packages requires the document to be compiled with a
specific engine. Notable examples are fontspec and polyglossia
packages, which require LuaTeX and XeTeX engines. If you try to
compile a document which loads one of such packages and the set engine
is not one of those allowed you will be asked to select a different
engine before running the LaTeX command. If you do not want to be
warned by AUCTeX in these cases, customize the option
TeX-check-engine
.
This boolean option controls whether AUCTeX should check the correct engine has been set before running LaTeX commands.
As shown above, AUCTeX handles in a special way most of the main
options that can be given to the TeX processors. When you need to
pass to the TeX processor arbitrary options not handled by AUCTeX,
you can use the file local variable TeX-command-extra-options
.
String with the extra options to be given to the TeX processor. For example, if you need to enable the shell escape feature to compile a document, add the following line to the list of local variables of the source file:
%%% TeX-command-extra-options: "-shell-escape"
By default this option is not safe as a file-local variable because a specially crafted document compiled with shell escape enabled can be used for malicious purposes.
You can customize AUCTeX to show the processor output as it is produced.
If non-nil, the output of TeX compilation is shown in another window.
You can instruct TeX to print error messages in the form file:line:error which is similar to the way many compilers format them.
If non-nil, TeX will produce file:line:error style error messages.
ConTeXt users can choose between Mark II and Mark IV versions. This
is controlled by ConTeXt-Mark-version
option.
This variables specifies which version of Mark should be used. Values
currently supported are "II"
, the default, and "IV"
. It
can be set globally using customization interface or on a per-file
basis, by specifying it as a file variable.
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AUCTeX allows you to start external programs for previewing the formatted output of your document.
• Starting Viewers: | Starting viewers | |
• I/O Correlation: | Forward and inverse search |
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Viewers are normally invoked by pressing C-c C-c once the document
is formatted, which will propose the View command, or by activating the
respective entry in the Command menu. Alternatively you can type
C-c C-v which calls the function TeX-view
.
(C-c C-v) Start a viewer without confirmation. The viewer is
started either on a region or the master file, depending on the last
command issued. This is especially useful for jumping to the location
corresponding to point in the viewer when using
TeX-source-correlate-mode
.
AUCTeX will try to guess which type of viewer (DVI, PostScript or PDF) has to be used and what options are to be passed over to it. This decision is based on the output files present in the working directory as well as the class and style options used in the document. For example, if there is a DVI file in your working directory, a DVI viewer will be invoked. In case of a PDF file it will be a PDF viewer. If you specified a special paper format like ‘a5paper’ or use the ‘landscape’ option, this will be passed to the viewer by the appropriate options. Especially some DVI viewers depend on this kind of information in order to display your document correctly. In case you are using ‘pstricks’ or ‘psfrag’ in your document, a DVI viewer cannot display the contents correctly and a PostScript viewer will be invoked instead.
The association between the tests for the conditions mentioned above and
the viewers is made in the variable TeX-view-program-selection
.
Therefore this variable is the starting point for customization if you
want to use other viewers than the ones suggested by default.
This is a list of predicates and viewers which is evaluated from front
to back in order to find out which viewer to call under the given
conditions. In the first element of each list item you can reference
one or more predicates defined in TeX-view-predicate-list
or
TeX-view-predicate-list-builtin
. In the second element you can
reference a viewer defined in TeX-view-program-list
or
TeX-view-program-list-builtin
. The viewer of the first item with
a positively evaluated predicate is selected.
So TeX-view-program-selection
only contains references to the
actual implementations of predicates and viewer commands respectively
which can be found elsewhere. AUCTeX comes with a set of
preconfigured predicates and viewer commands which are stored in the
variables TeX-view-predicate-list-builtin
and
TeX-view-program-list-builtin
respectively. If you are not
satisfied with those and want to overwrite one of them or add your own
definitions, you can do so via the variables
TeX-view-predicate-list
and TeX-view-program-list
.
This is a list of predicates for viewer selection and invocation. The first element of each list item is a symbol and the second element a Lisp form to be evaluated. The form should return nil if the predicate is not fulfilled.
A built-in predicate from TeX-view-predicate-list-builtin
can be
overwritten by defining a new predicate with the same symbol.
This is a list of viewer specifications each consisting of a symbolic
name and either a command line or a function to be invoked when the
viewer is called. If a command line is used, parts of it can be
conditionalized by prefixing them with predicates from
TeX-view-predicate-list
or
TeX-view-predicate-list-builtin
. (See the doc string for the
exact format to use.) The command line can also contain placeholders as
defined in TeX-expand-list
and TeX-expand-list-builtin
which are expanded before the viewer is called.
The third element of each item is a string, or a list of strings, with
the name of the executable, or executables, needed to open the output
file in the viewer. Placeholders defined in TeX-expand-list
and
TeX-expand-list-builtin
can be used here. This element is
optional and is used to check whether the viewer is actually available
on the system.
A built-in viewer spec from TeX-view-program-list-builtin
can be
overwritten by defining a new viewer spec with the same name.
Note that the viewer selection and invocation as described above will
only work if certain default settings in AUCTeX are intact. For one,
the whole viewer selection machinery will only be triggered if there is
no ‘%V’ expander in TeX-expand-list
. So if you have trouble
with the viewer invocation you might check if there is an older
customization of the variable in place. In addition, the use of a
function in TeX-view-program-list
only works if the View command
in TeX-command-list
makes use of the hook
TeX-run-discard-or-function
.
Note also that the implementation described above replaces an older one
which was less flexible. This old implementation works with the
variables TeX-output-view-style
and TeX-view-style
which
are used to associate file types and style options with viewers. If
desired you can reactivate it by using the placeholder ‘%vv’ for
the View command in TeX-command-list
. Note however, that it is
bound to be removed from AUCTeX once the new implementation proved to
be satisfactory. For the time being, find a short description of the
mentioned customization options below.
List of output file extensions, style options and view options. Each
item of the list consists of three elements. If the first element (a
regular expression) matches the output file extension, and the second
element (a regular expression) matches the name of one of the style
options, any occurrence of the string %V
in a command in
TeX-command-list
will be replaced with the third element.
List of style options and view options. This is the predecessor of
TeX-output-view-style
which does not provide the possibility to
specify output file extensions. It is used as a fallback in case none
of the alternatives specified in TeX-output-view-style
match. In
case none of the entries in TeX-view-style
match either, no
suggestion for a viewer is made.
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Forward and inverse search refer to the correlation between the document source in the editor and the typeset document in the viewer. Forward search allows you to jump to the place in the previewed document corresponding to a certain line in the document source and inverse search vice versa.
AUCTeX supports three methods for forward and inverse search: source
specials (only DVI output), the pdfsync LaTeX package (only PDF
output) and SyncTeX (any type of output). If you want to make use of
forward and inverse searching with source specials or SyncTeX, switch
on TeX-source-correlate-mode
. See Processor Options, on how
to do that. The use of the pdfsync package is detected automatically if
document parsing is enabled. Customize the variable
TeX-source-correlate-method
to select the method to use.
Method to use for enabling forward and inverse search. This can be ‘source-specials’ if source specials should be used, ‘synctex’ if SyncTeX should be used, or ‘auto’ if AUCTeX should decide.
When the variable is set to ‘auto’, AUCTeX will always use
SyncTeX if your latex
processor supports it, source specials
otherwise. You must make sure your viewer supports the same method.
It is also possible to specify a different method depending on the output, either DVI or PDF, by setting the variable to an alist of the kind
((dvi . <source-specials or synctex>) (pdf . <source-specials or synctex>))
in which the CDR of each entry is a symbol specifying the method to be used in the corresponding mode. The default value of the variable is
((dvi . source-specials) (pdf . synctex))
which is compatible with the majority of viewers.
Forward search happens automatically upon calling the viewer, e.g. by
typing C-c C-v (TeX-view
). This will open the viewer or
bring it to front and display the output page corresponding to the
position of point in the source file. AUCTeX will automatically pass
the necessary command line options to the viewer for this to happen.
Upon opening the viewer you will be asked if you want to start a server
process (Gnuserv or Emacs server) which is necessary for inverse search.
This happens only if there is no server running already. You can
customize the variable TeX-source-correlate-start-server
to
inhibit the question and always or never start the server respectively.
If TeX-source-correlate-mode
is active and a viewer is invoked,
the default behavior is to ask if a server process should be started.
Set this variable to t
if the question should be inhibited and
the server should always be started. Set it to nil
if the server
should never be started. Inverse search will not be available in the
latter case.
Inverse search, i.e. jumping to the part of your document source in Emacs corresponding to a certain position in the viewer, is triggered from the viewer, typically by a mouse click. Refer to the documentation of your viewer to find out how it has to be configured and what you have to do exactly. In xdvi you normally have to use C-down-mouse-1.
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Once you’ve formatted your document you may ‘debug’ it, i.e. browse through the errors (La)TeX reported. If you have GNU Emacs 24 or later, you may also have a look at a nicely formatted list of all errors and warnings reported by the compiler.
(C-c `) Go to the next error reported by TeX. The view will be split in two, with the cursor placed as close as possible to the error in the top view. In the bottom view, the error message will be displayed along with some explanatory text.
An optional numeric arg, positive or negative, specifies how many
error messages to move. A negative arg means to move back to
previous error messages, see also TeX-previous-error
.
The optional reparse argument makes AUCTeX reparse the error message buffer and start the debugging from the first error. This can also be achieved by calling the function with a prefix argument (C-u).
(M-g p) Go to the previous error reported by TeX. An optional
numeric arg specifies how many error messages to move backward.
This is like calling TeX-next-error
with a negative argument.
The command TeX-previous-error
works only if AUCTeX can parse
the whole TeX log buffer. This is controlled by the
TeX-parse-all-errors
variable.
If t, AUCTeX automatically parses the whole output log buffer right
after running a TeX command, in order to collect all warnings and
errors. This makes it possible to navigate back and forth between the
error messages using TeX-next-error
and
TeX-previous-error
. This is the default. If nil, AUCTeX does
not parse the whole output log buffer and TeX-previous-error
cannot be used.
Normally AUCTeX will only report real errors, but you may as well ask it to report ‘bad boxes’ and warnings as well.
(C-c C-t C-b) Toggle whether AUCTeX should stop at bad boxes (i.e. overfull and underfull boxes) as well as normal errors.
(C-c C-t C-w) Toggle whether AUCTeX should stop at warnings as well as normal errors.
As default, AUCTeX will display a special help buffer containing the error reported by TeX along with the documentation. There is however an ‘expert’ option, which allows you to display the real TeX output.
If t AUCTeX will automatically display a help text whenever an error
is encountered using TeX-next-error
(C-c `). If nil a
terse information about the error is displayed in the echo area. If
expert
AUCTeX will display the output buffer with the raw
TeX output.
• Error overview: | List of all errors and warnings |
When the option TeX-parse-all-errors
is non-nil, you will be also
able to open an overview of all errors and warnings reported by the TeX
compiler. This feature requires tabulated-list-mode
, shipped
with GNU Emacs 24 or later.
Show an overview of the errors and warnings occurred in the last TeX run.
In this window you can visit the error on which point is on by pressing RET, and visit the next or previous issue by pressing n or p respectively. A prefix argument to these keys specifies how many errors to move forward or backward. You can visit an error also by clicking on its message. Jump to error point in the source code with j, and use l see the error in the log buffer. Press q to quit the overview.
When this boolean variable is non-nil, the error overview will be automatically opened after running TeX if there are errors or warnings to show.
The error overview is opened in a new window of the current frame by
default, but you can change this behavior by customizing the option
TeX-error-overview-setup
.
Controls the frame setup of the error overview. The possible value is:
separate-frame
; with a nil value the current frame is used
instead.
The parameters of the separate frame can be set with the
TeX-error-overview-frame-parameters
option.
If the display does not support multi frame, the current frame will be used regardless of the value of this variable.
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Running TeX or LaTeX will only find regular errors in the
document, not examples of bad style. Furthermore, description of the
errors may often be confusing. The utilities lacheck
and
chktex
can be used to find style errors, such as forgetting to
escape the space after an abbreviation or using ‘...’ instead of
‘\ldots’ and other similar problems. You start lacheck
with
C-c C-c Check RET and chktex
with C-c C-c ChkTeX
RET. The result will be a list of errors in the
‘*compilation*’ buffer. You can go through the errors with
C-x ` (next-error
, see Compilation in The Emacs
Editor), which will move point to the location of the next error.
Each of the two utilities will find some errors the other doesn’t, but
chktex
is more configurable, allowing you to create your own
errors. You may need to install the programs before using them. You
can get lacheck
from
<URL:ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/lacheck/> and
chktex
from
<URL:ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/chktex/>.
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A number of commands are available for controlling the output of an application running under AUCTeX
(C-c C-k) Kill currently running external application. This may be either of TeX, LaTeX, previewer, BibTeX, etc.
(C-c C-l) Recenter the output buffer so that the bottom line is visible.
(C-c ^) Go to the ‘master’ file in the document associated with the current buffer, or if already there, to the file where the current process was started.
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Remove generated intermediate files. In case a prefix argument is given, remove output files as well.
Canonical access to the function is provided by the ‘Clean’ and
‘Clean All’ entries in TeX-command-list
, invokable with
C-c C-c or the Command menu.
The patterns governing which files to remove can be adapted separately
for each AUCTeX mode by means of the variables
plain-TeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes
,
plain-TeX-clean-output-suffixes
,
LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes
,
LaTeX-clean-output-suffixes
,
docTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes
,
docTeX-clean-output-suffixes
,
Texinfo-clean-intermediate-suffixes
,
Texinfo-clean-output-suffixes
,
ConTeXt-clean-intermediate-suffixes
and
ConTeXt-clean-output-suffixes
.
Control if deletion of intermediate and output files has to be confirmed before it is actually done. If non-nil, ask before deleting files.
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(C-c ?) Get documentation about macros, packages or TeX & Co. in general. The function will prompt for the name of a command or manual, providing a list of available keywords for completion. If point is on a command or word with available documentation, this will be suggested as default.
In case no documentation could be found, a prompt for querying the ‘texdoc’ program is shown, should the latter be available.
The command can be invoked by the key binding mentioned above as well as the ‘Find Documentation...’ entry in the mode menu.
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