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There + is also a fallback method for gs 9.27 users which displays plain + "black on white" images. For successful function of preview-latex, + the users are encouraged to set up the new user option + 'preview-pdf-color-adjust-method' to choose appropriate option + among the three: new, traditional and fallback method. + + * AUCTeX has support for the Flymake package in Emacs 26 or newer. + To enable, call 'M-x flymake-mode RET' or add this to your '.emacs' + file: + (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook #'flymake-mode) + + * The way the option 'TeX-record-buffer' is used was corrected. It + was used in just the opposite way as the document says. Erase the + customization if you have customized this option since it now acts + in reverse to your expectation. + + * A former customize option 'japanese-TeX-command-list' is removed. + Use 'japanese-TeX-engine-default', or if it's really necessary, + customize 'TeX-command-list' directly if the task which the option + used to carry is required. + + * Support for standard LaTeX without e-TeX extension is now very + limited. It doesn't work if raw TeX code is put on the command + line to invoke latex command. It also fails for region compilation + ('C-c C-r' and so on) with documents of non-ascii file name. In + addition, it no longer works with preview-latex. We consider this + incompatibility is permissible because e-TeX extension is enabled + for standard LaTeX by default long ago. LaTeX variants such as + XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX are not affected. + + * Key binds in Texinfo mode are improved. Typing '$', '^', '_' and + '\' now just self-inserts without pointless side effects in Texinfo + mode. + + In addition, the option 'TeX-electric-escape' is now effective in + Texinfo mode. When it is enabled, typing '@' will invoke + 'TeX-electric-macro' offering completion in similar style with + other TeX modes of AUCTeX. + + * Fontification support for 'biblatex' package is improved and + updated to macros provided by package version 3.12. For qualified + lists, at least 2 mandatory arguments are fontified. + + * Support for column specifiers 'w' and 'W' provided by 'array' + package is added to 'array.el'. The correct counting of columns + only works when the 'align' parameter is enclosed in braces, e.g., + 'w{l}{3cm}'. The short version 'wl{3cm}' is not supported. + + * Entries for 'PDF Tools' are added in + 'TeX-view-program-list-builtin' for Windows and macOS. This viewer + can be configured under these operating systems with an entry like + this in an init file: + (setq TeX-view-program-selection '((output-pdf "PDF Tools"))) + + * Several other bugs were fixed, many minor features were added. + +News in 12.1 +============ + + * AUCTeX now requires GNU Emacs 24 or higher. Support for XEmacs has + been dropped. + + * Besides the change in the supported version of Emacs, there has + been no functional change in this release, which is equivalent to + version 11.92. + +News in 11.92 +============= + + * preview-latex is compatible with Ghostscript 9.22 where the + operator '.runandhide' is removed. All occurrences of + '.runandhide' in preview-latex are replaced by alternative code + making it work with Ghostscript 9.22 again. + + * AUCTeX has a new customize option + 'TeX-math-input-method-off-regexp'. When you begin to input a math + formula, the current input method is turned off if its name matches + this regular expression. + + In fact this variable was introduced long before, but has not been + documented in info files nor turned into a customize option with + 'defcustom' until this release. + + * The window system focus is pulled back to Emacs when viewing with + evince-compatible viewers if a new customize option + 'TeX-view-evince-keep-focus' is non-nil. + + * The usual dose of bug fixes was administered. + +News in 11.91 +============= + + * Now AUCTeX has a logo. The LaTeX code to create it is available in + the 'etc/' directory of the package. + + * Add support for 'upmendex', an extension of 'makeindex' capable of + sorting indexes by unicode based ICU. + + * Fix preview-latex to interact correctly with Japanese LaTeX. The + parsing routine was made robust not to be confused by the 7-bit + encoding of Japanese text and the necessary option to LaTeX command + is kept even when preamble caching is enabled. + + * The new "Glossaries" entry in 'TeX-command-list' runs the command + 'makeglossaries'. + + * Fontification of control symbols has been improved. Characters + defined in 'font-latex-match-simple-exclude-list' do not receive + any fontification. In DocTeX mode, the character '_' is removed + from 'font-latex-match-simple-exclude-list' in order to fontify + macros like '\__module_foo:nnn' correctly. + + * Fontification of math environments has been improved. Optional + and/or mandatory argument(s) to environments are not fontified. + + * 'preview.sty' loads 'luatex85.sty' if possible and should be + compatible with newer luaTeX versions. + + * AUCTeX has a new customize option 'TeX-ispell-verb-delimiters'. + This string contains usual characters used as delimiters for + in-line verbatim macros like '\verb'. Text between delimiters + after an in-line verbatim macro will be skipped during spell + checking. + + * Fontification of in-line verbatim macros has been improved. + 'font-latex.el' recognizes an optional or a mandatory argument for + macros like '\Verb' from 'fancyvrb.sty', '\mint' and '\mintinline' + from 'minted.sty' and fontifies verbatim content correctly. + + * AUCTeX can put and parse labels in optional argument of + environments. Inserting labels is done by new function + 'LaTeX-env-label-as-keyval'. A new customize option + 'LaTeX-listing-label' is available as prefix to labels in code + typesetting environments, e.g. 'lstlisting' environment provided + by 'listings' package. 'LaTeX-listing-label' defaults to 'lst:'. + Parsing of labels for later referencing relies on two requirements: + 1. Label should come as last key-value argument, and + 2. label must be enclosed in braces, e.g. + \begin{lstlisting}[caption=Some Caption,label={lst:foo}] + ... + \end{lstlisting} + + * The function 'LaTeX-label' now takes a second optional argument + 'NO-INSERT'. When non-'nil', 'LaTeX-label' reads a label and + returns it as a string. This argument is also passed to any + function bound to 'LaTeX-label-function' (see next item). + + * *Incompatible change:* The signature for the function passed with + the customize option 'LaTeX-label-function' has changed. The + function bound to this variable is now expected to take an optional + second argument 'NO-INSERT'. When this argument is non-'nil', the + function should read and only return a label as a string; insertion + is done by another function. + + * Directory local variables were ineffective for + 'japanese-latex-mode' and 'japanese-plain-tex-mode'. This bug was + fixed. (This was actually done in AUCTeX 11.90, but not + advertised) + + * The output of Japanese text from Japanese TeX engines is decoded + correctly for most cases, according to the encoding of the TeX + documents and the locale. The difference between MS Windows, macOS + and unix-like OS is taken into account. (This was actually done in + AUCTeX 11.90, but not advertised) + + * Quite a few new LaTeX packages are supported. + + * As usual, many bugs were fixed. + +News in 11.90 +============= + + * 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. + +News in 11.89 +============= + + * You can now run all commands needed to compile a document and then + open the viewer with a single command: 'TeX-command-run-all', bound + to 'C-c C-a'. + + * Commands such as LaTeX and View can now be executed conveniently on + the current section (or part, chapter, subsection, etc). See + 'LaTeX-command-section' and 'LaTeX-command-section-change-level'. + + * Forward and backward search with Evince now also work when only a + region of the document is compiled/viewed. + + * To open the PDF output file you can now use also PDF Tools, a + document viewer for Emacs. With it, as a plus, forward and + backward search is accurate at word level. + + * With new option 'TeX-PDF-via-dvips-ps2pdf' it is possible to + compile a document to DVI and then convert it to PDF using + 'dvips'-'ps2pdf' before viewing it. + + * New option 'TeX-file-line-error' allows to select file:line:error + style for error messages. + + * Indent '\[...\]' math mode as a regular environment by default. + + * Now AUCTeX suggests to run 'makeindex' when appropriate. + + * 'TeX-view-program-list' can contain, as third optional element of + each item, the name of the executable(s) needed to open the viewer. + + * 'TeX-expand-list' variable has been split into 'TeX-expand-list' + and 'TeX-expand-list-builtin'. Only the former is intended to be + customized by the user, the latter contains built-in expanders. + You might want to keep in 'TeX-expand-list' only new expansion + strings. + + * Before running commands like TeX and LaTeX, now AUCTeX performs + some checks. If 'TeX-check-TeX' is non-nil, it will test whether a + working TeX distribution is actually present in the system and + available to Emacs. Instead, when 'TeX-check-engine' is non-nil, + before running LaTeX commands AUCTeX will check whether the correct + engine has been set, based upon known restrictions posed by LaTeX + packages. + + * Basic support to ConTeXt Mark IV has been added. Users can now + select the Mark version to be used with new option + 'ConTeXt-Mark-version', and AUCTeX is able to catch error messages + in the output log of a Mark IV document. + + * Support for tons of LaTeX packages has been added. + + * Numbers of bugs have been fixed, many minor features have been + added. + +News in 11.88 +============= + + * 'TeX-PDF-mode' is now enabled by default. + + * Now 'TeX-previous-error' works with TeX commands if the new option + 'TeX-parse-all-errors' is non-nil, which is the default. When this + option is non-nil, an overview of errors and warnings reported by + the TeX compiler can be opened with 'M-x TeX-error-overview <RET>'. + + * Style file authors are encouraged to distinguish common from expert + macros and environments, and mark the latter using + 'TeX-declare-expert-macros' and + 'LaTeX-declare-expert-environments'. + + Users can then restrict completion using + 'TeX-complete-expert-commands'. + + * Management of LaTeX package options in the parser was improved. + You might need to reparse your documents, especially if you loaded + the 'babel' package with language options. + + * Now you can insert '$...$' or '\(...\)' by typing a single '$'. To + do this, customize the new option 'TeX-electric-math'. + 'TeX-math-close-double-dollar' was removed. + + * 'C-c <RET> documentclass <RET>' completes with all available LaTeX + classes, if the 'TeX-arg-input-file-search' variable is non-nil. + Completion for class options of the standard LaTeX classes is + provided as well. + + * New user options 'LaTeX-default-author', + 'LaTeX-fontspec-arg-font-search', + 'LaTeX-fontspec-font-list-default', 'TeX-date-format', and + 'TeX-insert-braces-alist'. A new possible value + ('show-all-optional-args') for 'TeX-insert-macro-default-style' was + added. The default value of 'TeX-source-correlate-method' has been + changed. + + * 'biblatex' support was greatly expanded. If parsing is enabled, + AUCTeX looks at 'backend' option to decide whether to use Biber or + BibTeX. The 'LaTeX-biblatex-use-Biber' variable was changed to be + file local only and is no more customizable. + + * With some LaTeX classes, the default environment suggested by + 'LaTeX-environment' ('C-c C-e') when the current environment is + 'document' was changed. With 'beamer' class the default + environment is 'frame', with 'letter' it is 'letter', with 'slides' + it is 'slide'. + + * Brace pairing feature was enhanced in LaTeX documents. Support for + '\bigl', '\Bigl', '\biggl' and '\Biggl', the same as the one for + '\left', was added to 'TeX-insert-macro'. For example, 'C-c <RET> + bigl <RET> ( <RET>' inserts '\bigl(\bigr)'. + + You can insert brace pair '()', '{}' and '[]' by typing a single + left brace if the new user option 'LaTeX-electric-left-right-brace' + is enabled. + + Macros '\langle', '\lfloor' and '\lceil', which produce the left + part of the paired braces, are treated similarly as '(', '{' and + '[' during the course of 'TeX-insert-macro'. + + * Support for dozens of LaTeX packages was added. + + * Tabular-like environments (tabular, tabular*, tabularx, tabulary, + array, align, ...) are indented in a nicer and more informative + way when the column values of a table line are written across + multiple lines in the tex file. + + * The suitable number of ampersands are inserted when you insert + array, tabular and tabular* environments with 'C-c C-e'. Similar + experience is obtained if you terminate rows in these environments + with 'C-c <LFD>'. It supplies line break macro '\\' and inserts + the suitable number of ampersands on the next line. + + Similar supports are provided for various amsmath environments. + + * Commands for narrowing to a group ('TeX-narrow-to-group') and to + LaTeX environments ('LaTeX-narrow-to-environment') were added. + + * Now arbitrary options can be passed to the TeX processor on a per + file basis using the 'TeX-command-extra-options' option. + + * Now 'C-c C-e document <RET>', in an empty document, prompts for + '\usepackage' macros in addition to '\documentclass'. + + * 'TeX-add-style-hook' has now a third argument to tell AUCTeX for + which dialect (LaTeX, Texinfo or BibTeX) the style hook is + registers. Labelling style hook by dialect will avoid applying + them not in the right context. + + * There have been lots of bug fixes and feature additions. + +News in 11.87 +============= + + * AUCTeX now supports Biber in conjunction with biblatex in addition + to BibTeX. + + * Each AUCTeX mode now has its own abbrev table. On Emacsen which + provide the possibility to inherit abbrevs from other tables, the + abbrevs from the Text mode abbrev table are available as well. + Newly defined abbrevs are written to the mode-specific tables, + though. + + * The file 'tex-fptex.el' was removed. + + * Forward/backward search for Evince has been improved. If Emacs is + compiled with DBUS support and a recent Evince version (3.x) is + installed, the communication goes over the desktop bus instead of + the command line, resulting in more accurate positioning of point + in Emacs and highlighting of the target paragraph in Evince. + + * A problem where Ghostscript threw an /invalidfileaccess error when + running preview-latex was fixed. + + * A lot of smaller fixes and additions have been made. + +News in 11.86 +============= + + * Parsing of LaTeX output was improved. It is now less likely that + AUCTeX opens a non-existent file upon calling 'TeX-next-error'; a + problem for example encountered when using MiKTeX 2.8. In addition + quoted file names as emitted by MiKTeX are now supported. + + * A new framework for the definition and selection of viewers was + implemented. If you have customizations regarding viewers you will + have to redo them in this new framework or reenable the old one. + See the section on viewers in the manual for details. + + * Comprehensive editing support for PSTricks was added. + + * Support for various LaTeX packages was added, e.g. 'tabularx', + 'CJK', and 'hyperref'. + + * An easy way to switch between TeX engines (PDFTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX, + Omega) was added. + + * Support for SyncTeX was added. This involves the command line + options for LaTeX and the viewer. + + * Folding can now be customized to use macro arguments as replacement + text. + + * 'preview.sty' now works with XeTeX. + + * A lot of smaller and larger bugs have been squashed. + +News in 11.85 +============= + + * Font locking has been improved significantly. It is now less prone + to color bleeding which could lead to high resource usage. In + addition it now includes information about LaTeX macro syntax and + can indicate syntactically incorrect macros in LaTeX mode. + + * The license was updated to GPLv3. + + * Support for the nomencl, flashcards and comment LaTeX packages as + well as the Icelandic language option of babel were added. + + * Support for folding of math macros was added. + + * Lots of minor bugs in features and documentation fixed. + +News in 11.84 +============= + + * There have been problems with the '-without-texmf-dir' option to + 'configure' when the value of '-with-kpathsea-sep' was set or + determined for an installation system with a default different from + that of the runtime system. 'with-kpathsea-sep' has been removed; + the setting is now usually determined at runtime. + + Due to this and other problems, preview-latex in the released + XEmacs package failed under Windows or with anything except recent + 21.5 XEmacsen. + + * AUCTeX and preview-latex have been changed in order to accommodate + file names containing spaces. preview-latex now tolerates bad + PostScript code polluting the stack (like some Omega fonts). + + * 'preview.sty' had in some cases failed to emit PostScript header + specials. + + * Support for folding of comments was added. + + * The 'polish' language option of the babel LaTeX package as well as + the polski LaTeX package are now supported. Most notably this + means that AUCTeX will help to insert quotation marks as defined by + polish.sty ('"`..."'') and polski.sty (',,...'''). + + * The TeX tool bar is now available and enabled by default in plain + TeX mode. + + * Bug fix in the display of math subscripts and superscripts. + + * Bug fix 'TeX-doc' for Emacs 21. + + * There has been quite a number of other bug fixes to various + features and documentation across the board. + +News in 11.83 +============= + + * The new function 'TeX-doc' provides easy access to documentation + about commands and packages or information related to TeX and + friends in general. It is accessible with the key binding 'C-c ?' + or the 'Find Documentation...' entry in the mode menus. + + * You can now get rid of generated intermediate and output files by + means of the new 'Clean' and 'Clean All' entries in + 'TeX-command-list' accessible with 'C-c C-c' or the Command menu. + + * Support for forward search with PDF files was added. That means + you can jump to a place in the output file corresponding to the + position in the source file. Currently this only works if you use + the pdfsync LaTeX package and xpdf as your PDF viewer. The + accuracy is in the range of +/-1 page. + + Adding support for this feature required the default value of the + variable 'TeX-output-view-style' to be changed. Please make sure + you either remove any customizations overriding the new default or + incorporate the changes into your customizations if you want to use + this feature. + + * TeX error messages of the '-file-line-error' kind are now + understood in AUCTeX and preview-latex (parsers are still + separate). + + * Bug fix in XyMTeX support. + + * The LaTeX tool bar is now enabled by default. + +News in 11.82 +============= + + * Support for the MinionPro LaTeX package was added. + + * Warnings and underfull/overfull boxes are now being indicated in + the echo area after a LaTeX run, if the respective debugging + options are activated with 'TeX-toggle-debug-warnings' ('C-c C-t + C-w') or 'TeX-toggle-debug-bad-boxes' ('C-c C-t C-b'). In this + case 'TeX-next-error' will find these warnings in addition to + normal errors. + + The key binding 'C-c C-w' for 'TeX-toggle-debug-bad-boxes' (which + was renamed from 'TeX-toggle-debug-boxes') now is deprecated. + + * AUCTeX now can automatically insert a pair of braces after typing + <_> or <^> in math constructs if the new variable + 'TeX-electric-sub-and-superscript' is set to a non-nil value. + + * Some language-specific support for French was added. There now is + completion support for the commands provided by the 'frenchb' (and + 'francais') options of the babel LaTeX package and easier input of + French quotation marks ('\\og ...\\fg') which can now be inserted + by typing <">. + + * Completion support for options of some LaTeX packages was added. + + * Already in version 11.81 the way to activate AUCTeX changed + substantially. This should now be done with '(load "auctex.el" nil + t t)' instead of the former '(require 'tex-site)'. Related to this + change 'tex-mik.el' does not load 'tex-site.el' anymore. That + means if you used only '(require 'tex-mik)' in order to activate + AUCTeX, you have to add '(load "auctex.el" nil t t)' before the + latter statement. More detailed information can be found in the + installation instructions (file INSTALL). + + * Handling of verbatim constructs was consolidated across AUCTeX. + This resulted in the font-latex-specific variables + 'font-latex-verb-like-commands', 'font-latex-verbatim-macros', and + 'font-latex-verbatim-environments' being removed and the more + general variables 'LaTeX-verbatim-macros-with-delims', + 'LaTeX-verbatim-macros-with-braces', and + 'LaTeX-verbatim-environments' being added. + + * The output of a BibTeX run is now checked for warnings and errors, + which are reported in the echo area. + + * The aliases for 'font-latex-title-fontify' were removed. Use + 'font-latex-fontify-sectioning' instead. + + * The problem that Japanese macros where broken across lines was + fixed. + + * Various bug fixes. + +News in 11.81 +============= + + * 'LaTeX-mark-section' now marks subsections of a given section as + well. The former behavior is available via the prefix argument. + + * preview-latex which was previously available separately became a + subsystem of AUCTeX. There is no documented provision for building + or installing preview-latex separately. It is still possible to + use and install AUCTeX without preview-latex, however. + + * The installation procedures have been overhauled and now also + install startup files as part of the process (those had to be + copied manually previously). You are advised to remove previous + installations of AUCTeX and preview-latex before starting the + installation procedure. A standard installation from an unmodified + tarball no longer requires Makeinfo or Perl. + + Also note that the way AUCTeX is supposed to be activated changed. + Instead of '(require 'tex-site)' you should now use '(load + "auctex.el" nil t t)'. While the former method may still work, the + new method has the advantage that you can deactivate a preactivated + AUCTeX with the statement '(unload-feature 'tex-site)' before any + of its modes have been used. This may be important especially for + site-wide installations. + + * Support for the babel LaTeX package was added. + + * Folding a buffer now ensures that the whole buffer is fontified + before the actual folding is carried out. If this results in + unbearably long execution times, you can fall back to the old + behavior of relying on stealth font locking to do this job in the + background by customizing the variable 'TeX-fold-force-fontify'. + + * Folded content now reveals part of its original text in a tooltip + or the echo area when hovering with the mouse pointer over it. + + * The language-specific insertion of quotation marks was generalized. + The variables 'LaTeX-german-open-quote', + 'LaTeX-german-close-quote', 'LaTeX-german-quote-after-quote', + 'LaTeX-italian-open-quote', 'LaTeX-italian-close-quote', and + 'LaTeX-italian-quote-after-quote' are now obsolete. If you are not + satisfied with the default settings, you should customize + 'TeX-quote-language-alist' instead. + + * Similar to language-specific quote insertion, AUCTeX now helps you + with hyphens in different languages as well. + + * Fill problems in Japanese text introduced in AUCTeX 11.55 were + fixed. AUCTeX tries not to break lines between 1-byte and 2-byte + chars. These features will work in Chinese text, too. + + * The scaling factor of the fontification of sectioning commands can + now be customized using the variable + 'font-latex-fontify-sectioning'. This variable was previously + called 'font-latex-title-fontify'; In this release we provide an + alias but this will disappear in one of the the next releases. The + faces for the sectioning commands are now called + 'font-latex-sectioning-N-face' (N=0...5) instead of + 'font-latex-title-N-face' (N=1...4). Analogously the names of the + variables holding the related keyword lists were changed from + 'font-latex-title-N-keywords' to + 'font-latex-sectioning-N-keywords'. Make sure to adjust your + customizations. + + * Titles in beamer slides marked by the "\frametitle" command are + know displayed with the new face 'font-latex-slide-title-face'. + You can add macros to be highlighted with this face to + 'font-latex-match-slide-title-keywords'. + + * Of course a lot of bugs have been fixed. + +News in 11.55 +============= + + * A bug was fixed which lead to the insertion of trailing whitespace + during filling. In particular extra spaces were added to sentence + endings at the end of lines. You can make this whitespace visible + by setting the variable 'show-trailing-whitespace' to 't'. If you + want to delete all trailing whitespace in a buffer, type 'M-x + delete-trailing-whitespace RET'. + + * A bug was fixed which lead to a '*Compile-Log*' buffer popping up + when the first LaTeX file was loaded in an Emacs session. + + * On some systems the presence of an outdated Emacspeak package lead + to the error message 'File mode specification error: (error + "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")'. Precautions + were added which prevent this error from happening. But + nevertheless, it is advised to upgrade or uninstall the outdated + Emacspeak package. + + * The value of 'TeX-macro-global' is not determined during + configuration anymore but at load time of AUCTeX. Consequently the + associated configuration option '--with-tex-input-dirs' was + removed. + + * Support for the LaTeX Japanese classes 'jsarticle' and 'jsbook' was + added. + +News in 11.54 +============= + + * The parser (used e.g. for 'TeX-auto-generate-global') was extended + to recognize keywords common in LaTeX packages and classes, like + "\DeclareRobustCommand" or "\RequirePackage". Additionally a bug + was fixed which led to duplicate entries in AUCTeX style files. + + * Folding can now be done for paragraphs and regions besides single + constructs and the whole buffer. With the new 'TeX-fold-dwim' + command content can both be hidden and shown with a single key + binding. In course of these changes new key bindings for unfolding + commands where introduced. The old bindings are still present but + will be phased out in future releases. + + * Info files of the manual now have a .info extension. + + * There is an experimental tool bar support now. It is not activated + by default. If you want to use it, add + (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'LaTeX-install-toolbar) + to your init file. + + * The manual now contains a new chapter "Quick Start". It explains + the main features and how to use them, and should be enough for a + new user to start using AUCTeX. + + * A new section "Font Locking" was added to the manual which explains + syntax highlighting in AUCTeX and its customization. Together with + the sections related to folding and outlining, the section is part + of the new chapter "Display". + + * Keywords for syntax highlighting of LaTeX constructs to be typeset + in bold, italic or typewriter fonts may now be customized. Besides + the built-in classes, new keyword classes may be added by + customizing the variable 'font-latex-user-keyword-classes'. The + customization options can be found in the customization group + 'font-latex-keywords'. + + * Verbatim content is now displayed with the 'fixed-pitch' face. + (GNU Emacs only) + + * Syntax highlighting should not spill out of verbatim content + anymore. (GNU Emacs only) + + * Verbatim commands like '\verb|...|' will not be broken anymore + during filling. + + * You can customize the completion for graphic files with + 'LaTeX-includegraphics-read-file'. + + * Support for the LaTeX packages 'url', 'listings', 'jurabib' and + 'csquotes' was added with regard to command completion and syntax + highlighting. + + * Performance of fontification and filling was improved. + + * Insertion of nodes in Texinfo mode now supports completion of + existing node names. + + * Setting the variable 'LaTeX-float' to 'nil' now means that you will + not be prompted for the float position of figures and tables. You + can get the old behaviour of 'nil' by setting the variable to '""', + i.e. an empty string. + + * The XEmacs-specific bug concerning 'overlays-at' was fixed. + + * Lots of bug fixes. + +News in 11.53 +============= + + * The LaTeX math menu can include Unicode characters if your Emacs + built supports it. See the variable 'LaTeX-math-menu-unicode'. + + * Bug fixes for XEmacs. + + * Completion for graphic files in the TeX search path has been added. + + * 'start' is used for the viewer for MiKTeX and fpTeX. + + * The variable 'TeX-fold-preserve-comments' can now be customized to + deactivate folding in comments. + +News in 11.52 +============= + + * Installation and menus under XEmacs work again (maybe for the first + time). + + * Fontification of subscripts and superscripts is now disabled when + the fontification engine is not able to support it properly. + + * Bug fixes in the build process. + +News in 11.51 +============= + + * PDFTeX and Source Special support did not work with ConTeXt, this + has been fixed. Similar for Source Special support under Windows. + + * Omega support has been added. + + * Bug fixes in the build process. + + * 'TeX-fold' now supports folding of environments in Texinfo mode. + +News in 11.50 +============= + + * The use of source specials when processing or viewing the document + can now be controlled with the new 'TeX-source-specials' minor mode + which can be toggled via an entry in the Command menu or the key + binding 'C-c C-t C-s'. If you have customized the variable + 'TeX-command-list', you have to re-initialize it for this to work. + This means to open a customization buffer for the variable by + typing 'M-x customize-variable RET TeX-command-list RET', selecting + "Erase Customization" and do your customization again with the new + default. + + * The content of the command menu now depends on the mode (plain TeX, + LaTeX, ConTeXt etc.). Any former customization of the variable + 'TeX-command-list' has to be erased. Otherwise the command menu + and the customization will not work correctly. + + * Support for hiding and auto-revealing macros, e.g. footnotes or + citations, and environments in a buffer was added. + + * You can now control if indentation is done upon typing <RET> by + customizing the variable 'TeX-newline-function'. + + * Limited support for 'doc.sty' and 'ltxdoc.cls' ('dtx' files) was + added. The new docTeX mode provides functionality for editing + documentation parts. This includes formatting (indenting and + filling), adding and completion of macros and environments while + staying in comments as well as syntax highlighting. (Please note + that the mode is not finished yet. For example syntax highlighting + does not work yet in XEmacs.) + + * For macro completion in docTeX mode the AUCTeX style files + 'doc.el', 'ltxdoc.el' and 'ltx-base.el' were included. The latter + provides general support for low-level LaTeX macros and may be used + with LaTeX class and style files as well. It is currently not + loaded automatically for those files. + + * Support for ConTeXt with a separate ConTeXt mode is now included. + Macro definitions for completion are available in Dutch and + English. + + * The filling and indentation code was overhauled and is now able to + format commented parts of the source syntactically correct. Newly + available functionality and customization options are explained in + the manual. + + * Filling and indentation in XEmacs with preview-latex and activated + previews lead to the insertion of whitespace before multi-line + previews. AUCTeX now contains facilities to prevent this problem. + + * If 'TeX-master' is set to 't', AUCTeX will now query for a master + file only when a new file is opened. Existing files will be left + alone. The new function 'TeX-master-file-ask' (bound to 'C-c _' is + provided for adding the variable manually. + + * Sectioning commands are now shown in a larger font on display + devices which support such fontification. The variable + 'font-latex-title-fontify' can be customized to restore the old + appearance, i.e. the usage of a different color instead of a + change in size. + + * Support for 'alphanum.sty', 'beamer.cls', 'booktabs.sty', + 'captcont.sty', 'emp.sty', 'paralist.sty', 'subfigure.sty' and + 'units.sty'/'nicefrac.sty' was added. Credits go to the authors + mentioned in the respective AUCTeX style files. + + * Inserting graphics with 'C-c RET \includegraphics RET' was + improved. See the variable 'LaTeX-includegraphics-options-alist'. + + * If 'LaTeX-default-position' is 'nil', don't prompt for position + arguments in Tabular-like environments. + + * Completion for available packages when using 'C-c RET \usepackage + RET' was improved on systems using the kpathsea library. + + * The commenting functionality was fixed. The separate functions for + commenting and uncommenting were unified in one function for + paragraphs and regions respectively which do both. + + * Syntax highlighting can be customized to fontify quotes delimited + by either >>German<< or <<French>> quotation marks by changing the + variable 'font-latex-quotes'. + + * Certain TeX/LaTeX keywords for functions, references, variables and + warnings will now be fontified specially. You may add your own + keywords by customizing the variables + 'font-latex-match-function-keywords', + 'font-latex-match-reference-keywords', + 'font-latex-match-variable-keywords' and + 'font-latex-match-warning-keywords'. + + * If you include the style files 'german' or 'ngerman' in a document + (directly or via the 'babel' package), you should now customize + 'LaTeX-german-open-quote', 'LaTeX-german-close-quote' and + 'LaTeX-german-quote-after-quote' instead of 'TeX-open-quote', + 'TeX-close-quote' and 'TeX-quote-after-quote' if you want to + influence the type of quote insertion. + + * Upon viewing an output file, the right viewer and command line + options for it are now determined automatically by looking at the + extension of the output file and certain options used in the source + file. The behavior can be adapted or extended respectively by + customizing the variable 'TeX-output-view-style'. + + * You can control whether 'TeX-insert-macro' ('C-c RET') ask for all + optional arguments by customizing the variable + 'TeX-insert-macro-default-style'. + + * 'TeX-run-discard' is now able to completely detach a process that + it started. + + * The build process was enhanced and is now based on 'autoconf' + making installing AUCTeX a mostly automatic process. See the files + 'INSTALL' and 'INSTALL.windows' for details. + +News in 11.14 +============= + + * Many more LaTeX and LaTeX2e commands are supported. Done by + Masayuki Ataka <ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp> + +News in 11.12 +============= + + * Support for the KOMA-Script classes. Contributed by Mark Trettin + <Mark.Trettin@gmx.de>. + +News in 11.11 +============= + + * Support for 'prosper.sty', see <http://prosper.sourceforge.net/>. + Contributed by Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>. + +News in 11.10 +============= + + * 'comment-region' now inserts %% by default. Suggested by "Davide + G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org>. + +News in 11.06 +============= + + * You can now switch between using the 'font-latex' (all emacsen), + the 'tex-font' (Emacs 21 only) or no special package for font + locking. Customize 'TeX-install-font-lock' for this. + +News in 11.04 +============= + + * Now use -t landscape by default when landscape option appears. + Suggested by Erik Frisk <frisk@isy.liu.se>. + +News in 11.03 +============= + + * Use 'tex-fptex.el' for fpTeX support. Contributed by Fabrice + Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr>. + +News in 11.02 +============= + + * New user option 'LaTeX-top-caption-list' specifies environments + where the caption should go at top. Contributed by + ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka). + + * Allow explicit dimensions in 'graphicx.sty'. Contributed by + ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka). + + * Limited support for 'verbatim.sty'. Contributed by + ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka). + + * Better support for asmmath items. Patch by + ataka@milk.freemail.ne.jp (Masayuki Ataka). + + * More accurate error parsing. Added by David Kastrup + <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>. + +News in 11.01 +============= + + * Bug fixes. + |