slj@mtung.ATT.COM (S. Luke Jones) (10/10/89)
I just started using LaTeX, and I really like the LaTeX mode on GNU-Emacs. (How does it know whether I'm using LaTeX or plain TeX, anyhow?) I have a slight minor neglible problem, though, which is that when I auto-fill in either TeX or LaTeX mode, the \ (space) that I use in places like "Learning \LaTeX\ is neat" is not protected if it ends a line. Is there a simple hack to LaTeX mode to make that terminal \ (space) construct safe from being auto-filled away? Yes, I realize this is precisely what you don't want in 95% of the times a UNIX user has a \ at the end of a line. But in TeX it appears to be what I want. Luke Jones -- S. Luke Jones | slj@mtung.att.com | "System Test? That's for idiots!" AT&T Bell Labs | ...!att!mtung!slj | -- me, misquoting Insp. H. Calahan Room MT 2E-337 | 200 Laurel Ave. | Disclaimer: the opinions presented (201) 957-2733 | Middletown, NJ 07748 | herein are soley my own, NOT AT&T's.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (10/15/89)
TeX already does what you want. From plain.tex (or lplain.tex for
LaTeX):
\def\^^M{\ } % control <return> = control <space>
\def\^^I{\ } % same for <tab>
So "\" followed by a newline or tab is the same as "\" followed by
space. (Also don't worry that newline is ^J on Unix; it is translated
to ^M before the rest of TeX sees it, so that TeX behaves the same on
all systems.)
--
Joe Weening Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford Universitylupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton) (10/15/89)
Another (better?) solution is to write "\TeX{}", instead of writing "\TeX\ "
as you haven't put an absolute, unstretchable, piece of white space into
your document.
Robert
des@yatton.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) (10/16/89)
In article <1109@inmos.co.uk (S. Luke Jones) writes: >I just started using LaTeX, and I really like the LaTeX mode on >GNU-Emacs. (How does it know whether I'm using LaTeX or plain >TeX, anyhow?) I think it assumes the file is TeX unless it sees a \documentstyle (or perhaps a \begin{document}) at which it asssumes its LateX >I have a slight minor neglible problem, though, which is that when >I auto-fill in either TeX or LaTeX mode, the \ (space) that I use >in places like "Learning \LaTeX\ is neat" is not protected if it >ends a line. Is there a simple hack to LaTeX mode to make that >terminal \ (space) construct safe from being auto-filled away? There's actually no problem -- TeX translates <NL> into <SPACE> so to the innards of TeX Learning \LaTeX\ is neat appears as Learning<SPACE>\LaTeX<SPACE>is<neat> The real pain comes if the auto-fill routine splits on `-`s on the assumtion that they're hyphens -- but Emacs LaTeX mode doesn't do this so you're ok. david shepherd INMOS ltd