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+Release notes for AUCTeX 11.90 with preview-latex
+=================================================
+
+AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated
+environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with
+Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and
+others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring
+solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX
+distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax
+highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in
+the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent
+indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of
+graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source
+buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component.
+
+One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty'
+file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is
+available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1]
+
+AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks:
+documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material,
+sleuth work, testing.
+
+New features and fixed bugs in this release
+-------------------------------------------
+
+In addition to the completion performed by 'TeX-complete-symbol',
+AUCTeX now also supports the new Emacs standard completion-at-point
+facility (see the Emacs command 'completion-at-point'). This also
+means that modern completion UIs like company-mode work out of the
+box in TeX and LaTeX buffers.
+
+Completion is now aware of being inside a math environment and then
+completes math macros.
+
+AUCTeX is able to display several levels of super- and subscripts,
+each one raised above and a bit smaller than its basis. For this
+feature, have a look at the customize options
+'font-latex-fontify-script' (especially the new values 'multi-level'
+and 'invisible') and 'font-latex-fontify-script-max-level'. Also, the
+script characters '^' and '_' are also fontified with a special face
+named 'font-latex-script-char-face'.
+
+Parsing of format specification in various tabular environments has
+been improved. The function 'LaTeX-insert-item' ('C-c <LFD>') inserts
+suitable number of ampersands for '*{num}{cols}' constructs. Style
+files for LaTeX packages 'tabularx', 'tabulary', 'longtable',
+'dcolumn' and 'siunitx' are adapted to take advantage of this
+improvement.
+
+AUCTeX has a new Ispell dictionary 'tex-ispell.el' for macros and
+environments which will be skipped during spell checking. The
+activiation of this feature is controlled by a new customize option
+'TeX-ispell-extend-skip-list', which is set to 't' and activated by
+default.
+
+AUCTeX has a new customize option 'TeX-raise-frame-function' that is
+currently only used by Evince and Atril inverse search to raise the
+Emacs frame.
+
+When inserting a new float, AUCTeX will now prompt for a short-caption
+if the length of the caption provided is greater than a certain size.
+This size is controlled via a new user option
+'LaTeX-short-caption-prompt-length'.
+
+Parsing of the compilation log has been reworked. You should
+encounter fewer mistaken files while navigating through errors and
+warnings.
+
+Two new user options, 'TeX-ignore-warnings' and
+'TeX-suppress-ignored-warnings', allow ignoring certain warnings
+after compilation of the document.
+
+A new option, 'TeX-PDF-from-DVI', controls if and how to produce a PDF
+file by converting a DVI file. This supersedes
+'TeX-PDF-via-dvips-ps2pdf' which is still recognized but marked as
+obsolete and may be removed in future releases.
+
+Support for a number of external viewers has been added:
+ * Atril viewer. Forward and inverse search requires version
+ 1.9.1 or later to work.
+
+ * dviout viewer on Windows. Note that this setup works when
+ 'TeX-source-correlate-method' is set to use 'source-specials'
+ for DVI, e.g.:
+ (setq TeX-source-correlate-method
+ '((dvi . source-specials)
+ (pdf . synctex)))
+ which is the default.
+
+ * SumatraPDF viewer on Windows.
+
+ * Zathura viewer. Forward and inverse search requires a recent
+ version of the program to work (3.4 or later).
+
+A new function, 'TeX-documentation-texdoc', for reading
+documentation with 'texdoc' has been added. 'TeX-doc' is still
+available but now 'C-c ?' runs 'TeX-documentation-texdoc'.
+
+AUCTeX has a new custom option
+'LaTeX-reftex-cite-format-auto-activate' which controls the automatic
+activation of citation formats provided by RefTeX when a style file is
+loaded and RefTeX is enabled. Currently, 'biblatex.el', 'harvard.el',
+'jurabib.el' and 'natbib.el' use this feature. If you have customized
+'reftex-cite-format' and want to use your settings, you should set
+this variable to 'nil'.
+
+AUCTeX now has limited support for the TikZ package. For the moment,
+this includes some basic support for prompting the user of arguments
+to the '\draw' macro.
+
+The style 'graphicx.el' went through a bigger overhaul. The optional
+argument of command '\includegraphics' now supports key-val query;
+keys can independently be chosen anytime by pressing the <,> key. As
+a side effect, the variable 'LaTeX-includegraphics-options-alist' is
+now no-op and is removed from 'tex-style.el'. You can safely remove
+any customization of it from your init file. The mandatory argument
+of '\includegraphics' knows about image file extensions supported by
+the used engine and offers them for inclusion.
+
+Support for other LaTeX packages was improved, and style files for
+several new packages were added.
+
+Many bugs were crushed along the way.
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4.
+XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package
+(released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer
+for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for
+upgrading if necessary.
+
+The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available
+with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], Mac OS
+X (Carbon, Cocoa)[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support, at least version
+22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 and later is the recommended
+platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in
+version 21.4.10 or later.
+
+You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript.
+dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later), a very fast DVI converter, can be
+used to speed up the conversion.
+
+Availability
+------------
+
+The easiest way for getting AUCTeX, for users running Emacs 24.1 or
+higher, is installing it with GNU ELPA, see
+<URL:https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/auctex.html> for more information.
+Other download options are available at
+<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the
+source tarball, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which
+you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after
+using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). You can also
+use versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX or a software
+package management system for your operating system which provides you
+with the latest release.
+
+The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is
+usually more recent than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and
+as part of the Sumo tarball.
+
+A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the
+tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet.
+The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN.
+AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
+
+You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX
+<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list
+addresses.
+
+Future development and additional information
+---------------------------------------------
+
+AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of
+merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to
+assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual
+procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past
+contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done
+so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find
+and ask the rest.
+
+Current AUCTeX managers are Arash Esbati, Mosè Giordano, and Tassilo
+Horn. Everybody is welcome to contribute to the project by reporting
+bugs and suggesting improvements, but the most effective way of
+helping AUCTeX development remains volunteering for tasks.
+
+The following people contributed to this release series (in
+alphabetical order): Ivan Andrus, Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Fabrice
+Ben Hamouda, Thomas Baumann, Vincent Belaïche, Berend de Boer, Uwe
+Brauer, Ken Brown, Joshua Buhl, Patrice Dumas, Arash Esbati, Werner
+Fink, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Mosè Giordano, Patrick
+Gundlach, Jobst Hoffmann, Tassilo Horn, Yvon Hevel, Orlando Iovino,
+Mads Jensen, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Philip Kime,
+Oleh Krehel, Joost Kremers, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Matthew
+Leach, Antoine Levitt, Leo Liu, Vladimir Lomov, Stefan Monnier, Dan
+Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Nicolas Richard, Augusto Ritter Stoffel,
+Florent Rougon, Santiago Saavedra, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Rüdiger
+Sonderfeld, Holger Sparr, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian
+Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if
+we forgot somebody.)
+
+Footnotes:
+
+[1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/>
+
+[2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs for Windows at
+<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/>.
+
+[3] See e.g. <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForMacOS>
+for a list of precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X.
+
+[4] dvipng is available via its project page
+<URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN.