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News in 9.0

Coordinater: Per Abrahamsen, 1994.

Alpha testers (in order of appearance): Volker Dobler `<dobler@etu.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de>', Piet van Oostrum `<piet@cs.ruu.nl>', Frederic Devernay `<Frederic.Devernay@sophia.inria.fr>', Robert Estes `<estes@ece.ucdavis.edu>', Berwin Turlach `<berwin@core.ucl.ac.be>', Tim Carlson `<imsgtcar@mathfs.math.montana.edu>', Peter Thiemann `<thiemann@provence.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>', Kevin Scott `<scottkj@prl.philips.co.uk>', Lawrence R. Dodd `<dodd@roebling.poly.edu>', Johan Van Biesen `<vbiesen@wins.uia.ac.be>', Marc Gemis `<makke@wins.uia.ac.be>', Michelangelo Grigni `<mic@cs.ucsd.edu>', Kevin Scott `<scottkj@prl.philips.co.uk>', Peter Paris `<pparis@bass.gmu.edu>', Peter Barth `<barth@mpi-sb.mpg.de>', Andy Piper `<ajp@eng.cam.ac.uk>', Richard Stanton `<stanton@haas.berkeley.edu>', Christoph Wedler `<wedler@fmi.uni-passau.de>', Graham Gough `<graham@cs.man.ac.uk>', and probably more.

• Fixed problem with `filladapt' defeating LaTeX mode's own indentation algorithm. Thanks to Piet van Oostrum `<piet@cs.ruu.nl>'.

• Made environments and sections selectable from the menu bar.

• Support Emacs comment conventions. Comments starting with a single `%' are indented at comment-column. Comments starting with `%%%' are indented at column 0. Comments starting with `%%' are indented like ordinary text. You can set the variables LaTeX-right-comment-regexp and LaTeX-left-comment-regexp to nil to disable this. See also LaTeX-ignore-comment-regexp. Rewrote it from Christoph Wedler `<wedler@fmi.uni-passau.de>' from original code.

• tab and lfd will not indent code in `verbatim' environment if you set LaTeX-indent-environment-check to non-nil. Thise was also first implemented by Christoph Wedler `<wedler@fmi.uni-passau.de>'.

• You can now get get custom indentation for various environments. See LaTeX-indent-environment-list.

• C-c C-m left ret new automatically inserts a matching `\right'. See variables TeX-left-right-braces, TeX-braces-default-association, and TeX-braces-user-association. This feature was suggested by Jesse `<jes@math.msu.edu>' and implemented by Berwin Turlach `<berwin@core.ucl.ac.be>'.

• Don't automatically display the compilation buffer unless TeX-show-compilation in non-nil. Suggested by Stefan Schoef `Stefan.Schoef@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de'.

• Bundled `ltx-help.el'. Press C-h C-l to get the documentation for a LaTeX command.

• Fixed indentation of `\left' and `\right'. Thanks to Christoph Wedler `<wedler@fmi.uni-passau.de>'.

• Installation procedure changed. `tex-site.el' is now intended to survive AUC TeX upgraded. The distribution version only contains autoloads (eliminating the need for `tex-load.el' , the customization variables are moved to `tex.el'. You should copy those variables you need to customize from `tex.el' to `tex-site.el'.

• Made it possible to use absolute paths when including bibliographies or style files.

• Fixed problem with parsing errors after running LaTeX on the region from the menu. Thanks to Peter Barth `<barth@mpi-sb.mpg.de>' for finding this one.

• The file `doc/ref-card.texi' has been renamed to `doc/tex-ref.texi' to avoid confusion with the reference card for GNU Emacs. Suggested by Michelangelo Grigni `<mic@cs.ucsd.edu>'.

• The `README', `CHANGES' and `INSTALLATION' files are now generated from chapters of this manual, to ensure they stay in sync.

• M-tab will now complete some macro arguments in addition to macro names. In particular, if you press M-tab after `\cite{' or `\ref{' you will get completion for bibitems and labels, respectively.

• Merged a number of files. The major files are now `tex.el' for plain TeX and common support, `tex-buf.el' for running external commands, and `latex.el' for LaTeX support.

• Unbundled `outln-18.el'. Users of Emacs 18 or Lucid Emacs 19.9 or earlier must get `outln-18.el' and install it as `outline.el' if they want the outline commands to work.

• No longer bind C-c tab to TeX-complete-symbol. Use M-tab instead.

• Cleaned up the parser and parametrizised it. Now you can add now types of information to be maintained by the parser simply by calling TeX-auto-add-type. You still need to install the regexps with TeX-auto-add-regexp.

• Disable the automatic insertion of empty braces after macros with no arguments in LaTeX-math-mode. Added a variable TeX-insert-braces to disable it everywhere.

• Now complete with existing labels when asking for a label in a LaTeX environment. Suggested by Berwin Turlach `<berwin@core.ucl.ac.be>'.
• The variables TeX-private-macro, TeX-private-auto, and TeX-private-style are now initialized from the `TEXINPUTS' and `BIBINPUTS' environment variables.
• C-c C-f and C-c C-e will now put the template around the region if the region is active.

• Fixed C-u C-c C-e to handle environments ending with a star (`*'). Reported by Berwin Turlach `<berwin@core.ucl.ac.be>'.

• Don't use with-output-to-temp-buffer for compilation buffer. Fixed by Frederic Devernay `<Frederic.Devernay@sophia.inria.fr>'.

• New function TeX-command-buffer (C-c C-b) to run a command on the (visible part of) the current buffer. Requested by several people.

• Bundled the latest `reporter.el', added TeX-submit-bug-report to menus.

• TeX-insert-braces now takes an argument like insert-parentheses. Thanks to Lawrence R. Dodd `<dodd@roebling.poly.edu>'.

• Fixed bug in `\put' and `\multiput' macros. Thanks to Kevin Scott `<scottkj@prl.philips.co.uk>'.

• Deleted ams-latex-mode, slitex-mode, and foiltex-mode. Instead, use LaTeX-command-style to determine the name of the external command to use.

• Deleted latex2e-mode. Instead set the LaTeX-version variable. This may be done automatically if you use `\documentclass' in the future.

• Fixed Lucid Emacs menu for TeXinfo mode. Thanks to Frederic Devernay `<Frederic.Devernay@sophia.inria.fr>',

• Added support for `harvard.sty' by Berwin Turlach `<berwin@core.ucl.ac.be>'.

• Filling will not let display math equations `\[ ... \]' be on a line by themselves. Reported by Matthew Morley `<Matthew.Morley@gmd.de>'.

• Made words-include-escapes default to nil.

• Made TeX-expand-list expansions case sensitive. Thanks to Havard Rue `<Havard.Rue@sima.sintef.no>'.

• Fixed error in calculating indentation for lines starting with a brace. Thanks to Piet van Oostrum `<piet@cs.ruu.nl>'.

• Fixed bug in the `addcontentsline', `newtheorem', and `pagenumbering' macros reported by Berwin Turlach `<berwin@core.ucl.ac.be>'.

• Doc fixes by Lawrence R. Dodd `<dodd@roebling.poly.edu>'.

• Indentation no longer fooled by `\\{', Thanks to Peter Thiemann `<thiemann@provence.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>'.

• Bind M-C-e and M-c-a to LaTeX-find-matching-end and LaTeX-find-matching-begin. Suggested by Lawrence R. Dodd `<dodd@roebling.poly.edu>'.

• Added variable TeX-quote-after-quote which causes TeX-insert-quote to insert literal `"' except when after another `"', in which case it will expand to TeX-open-quote or TeX-close-quote. This code was contributed by Piotr Filip Sawicki `<pfs@mimuw.edu.pl>'.

• Added support for Polish style files `plfonts.sty' and `plhb.sty', contributed by Piotr Filip Sawicki `<pfs@mimuw.edu.pl>'.

• Added section with suggestions for how to handle European character sets.

• Created workaround for bug in the regexp handler in some Emacs 18 versions and older versions of Lucid Emacs. The workaround means you cannot use space in the documentstyle command in Emacs and Lucid Emacs earlier than version 19.9.

• `powerkey.el' is removed since the functionality is integrated in GNU Emacs

• C-u " now inserts four literal `"', not just one. To insert a single `"' either press " twice or use C-q ".

• Allow non-string value for outline-minor-map-prefix. Reported by David Smith `<maa507@comp.lancs.ac.uk>'.

• Make the use of write-file-hooks more safe, and use local-write-file-hooks when possible. Suggested by David Smith `<maa507@comp.lancs.ac.uk>'.

• Don't indent `\begin{verbatim}' and `\end{verbatim}', since any space before `\end{verbatim}' is significant. Thanks to Peter Thiemann `<thiemann@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>' for the patch.

• Show available fonts when you try to insert an non-existing font. Suggested by David Smith `<maa507@comp.lancs.ac.uk>'.

• The member function in `tex-18.el' does not depend on TeX-member now. Thanks to Piet van Oostrum `<piet@cs.ruu.nl>'.

• Do not overwrite any global binding of M-ret. Suggested by Jens Petersen `<J.Petersen@qmw.ac.uk>'.

• Major modes for writing text are supposed to rebind M-tab to ispell-complete-word. Reported by Jens Petersen `<J.Petersen@qmw.ac.uk>'.

• Fixed problems with TeXinfo menus. Thanks to David Smith `<maa507@comp.lancs.ac.uk>' for reporting this.

• Code cleanup. Removed the `format' directory, as it did not make it easier to add new TeX modes, quite the contrary.

• Fixed name conflict in `auc-tex.el', reported by Rik Faith `<faith@cs.unc.edu>'.

• Fixed some spelling errors. Thanks to Lawrence R. Dodd `<dodd@roebling.poly.edu>'.

• Fixed bug prohibiting non-standard file extensions. Now recognize `.ltx' by default. Suggested by Lawrence R. Dodd `<dodd@roebling.poly.edu>'.

• Name of the AUC TeX info files changes once again to be useable under DOS. This time simply to `auctex'.

• Documented TeX-outline-extra.

• Could not select command on region from the menu before loading `tex-buf'. Reported by Uwe Bonnes `<bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>'.

• Make the hilit19 interface more robust. Thanks to William Dean Norris II `<wdn@dragonfly.cis.ufl.edu>'.

• More OS/2 Makefile fixes by Bodo Huckestein `<bodo@eu10.mpi-hd.mpg.de>'.

• Reimplemented comment support on top of comment-region, giving slightly different semantics.

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