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# + MicroEMACS LaTeX Interface.
MEWLaTeX Version 1.0, January 10,1993.
Michael F. Reid <mfreid@hkuxa.hku.hk>
From April 1993: <mfr@phys.canterbury.ac.nz>
This is an attempt at a MicroEMACS interface for preparing LaTeX
documents under MicroSoft Windows (mewin). It consists of a
LATEX.CMD file and a number of auxiliary files.
Please tell me about any inaccuracies in the macros or the
documents. The details of the implementation can be easily adjusted
if you have some good suggestions.
0. TeX-helpful modifications to mewin.
There are five major headings under the TeX menu item.:
1. LaTeX Input. to assist in preparation of LaTeX files
2. BibTeX Input. to assist in preparation of BibTeX files
3. Execute. to run LaTeX processes
4. Debug. to locate errors automatically
5. Help. help on LaTeX, this interface, and installation
# + 0. TeX-helpful modifications.
Some additions and modifications have been made. Some are
personal preferences, some are to mewin work reasonably nicely with
TeX files, and some are to make mewin behave a little more similarly
to gnu emacs.
Wrap mode and "C Indentation" are automatically used on .tex and
.bib files.
The "mark" (see mewin help) can be set using the gnu keystroke
Control-@, which of course, requires you to press both Control and
Shift keys at the same time!
The point is left in place after a file insert. This is more like gnu
emacs.
The Insert key toggles over-write mode.
Control-Delete deletes blanks up to the next non-blank or end-of-line.
Read about the mouse interface in the mewin help. You can cut and
paste with just mouse strokes.
The characters "\" and "%" are considered to start a paragraph, so that
you don't get your equations reformatted (Esc-Q or
"Edit>Paragraph>Fill").
A backup-save option on the file menu (M-S keystroke) creates a
backup file. If your original file was x.y the backup is x.~y. This is
clumsy, as it has to run a DOS batch file to do it (del x.~y, rename x.y
x.~y).
An "Edit>Date" item is added, which puts the current time and date
into your file at the current point.
An "Edit>Region>To Clipboard" item is added, which copies the
"region" to the Windows clipboard.
A "Spell>Buffer" menu item is added, to run a spell-checker on your
file. If you want to read in the corrections, you have to wait for the DOS
program to finish, then press enter. If you type "n" then enter, the
modifications will not be read.
Note the goto-matching-fence (Esc-Control-F or under the
"Search>Goto" menu), which matches brackets (but not $ signs).
# + 1. LaTeX Input.
In some cases the menu items give you an explicit input, such as a
pair of brackets, but in other cases the options are displayed on the
screen, and you have to move the cursor to the option you want (by
mouse or position keys), and then press enter. Or you can type the
option. Pressing enter without moving the cursor, or pressing Control-
G, aborts the process. The layout of the math symbols is similar to the
Character Set Help.
Some of the bracketing commands are more likely to be accessed by
keystroke. The key bindings appear on the menus automatically.
Since you may want to change these, I will not spell them out here.
Templates. Here you use mouse or arrow keys to point the cursor at
the item you want (document, letter, REVTeX template, etc) and the
appropriate file is included in your file. . Adding extra items would be
easy.
Headings. Similar to templates. Creates \section{}, etc.
Environments. Allows you to pick an environment. The \begin{env}
\end{env} pair is created, and you are positioned in between. If the
environment is known to have more arguments, space is created for
those, e.g. \begin{tabular}{lcr} \end{tabular}.
Math Environments. Brackets around math mode.
Brackets. Creates a pair of brackets, e.g. {}, with the point positioned
between.
Text.
Accents
Special Symbols
Foreign Symbols
Math.
Super/Subscripts
Variable Brackets
Accents
Greek
Binary Operators
Relation Symbols
Arrow Symbols
Miscellaneous
Log Like
Delimiters
Variable Symbols (\sum, \int, etc)
Over and Underline
Miscellaneous. Pick an item and it will be copied into your file.
# + 2. BibTeX Input.
Templates. Pulls in a file with the necessary entries for each type of
citation. i.e.
@BOOK{,
author="",
...
}
Note that I include an "annote" field. The bibliographystyle
annotation.bst (available at TeX archives) will print out this field, so
that is a handy place to put comments.
Clean BibItem. Takes out all the blank items, i.e. lines with a pair of
double quotes (""). This is quite crude, and relies on the template
format.
Clean BibFile. Cleans the whole file.
Sort BibFile. Sorts the entries by citation key, which is crude. Better
sorting.programs are available. The sorting is rather slow for a large
file, but it seems to work. Note that there seems to be no way of
interrupting this, but you can close down the mewin process!
# + 3. Execute.
The items under this menu (which you may want to rearrange to suit
you local setup) allow you to run TeX, LaTeX, previewer, printer driver,
PostScript previewer, BibTeX, and MakeIndex. In my setup all, apart
from dvimswin, run in DOS boxes. The principle is the same for each
executable. You are prompted with a default file name, which stays in
force until you clear it using the last sub-menu item (Clear Filename).
This allows you to edit several "\include" files and continue to
process the "master" file. However, please note that when you invoke
these programs, they run in the directory of the file in the current edit
window!
# + 4. Debug.
Read Logfile. Reads in the relevant logfile to allow you to examine the
errors.
Find Next Error. Searches for the next LaTeX error, and tries to put
you in the erroneous file at the right place. Of course, this makes no
sense unless it is a LaTeX log file! This is rather slow. Note that you
should kill off any automatically generated files (like .aux, .bbl) after
this process. Also, if you didn't save all the files first, you may not be
looking at the correct place.
# + 5. Help.
LaTeX Commands.
Search LaTeX Commands.
These run a help file that was ported from VMS to Windows, so some
aspects are a little clumsy. For many topics the same information
appears in two places, once under the general headings such as
Environments, and again under an alphabetical listing. Each topic is
numbered to help you keep track. However, it is a real WinHelp file.
Note that you can search for any \command with or without the \.
Character Set. Runs the dvi-viewer on a file containing standard math
characters.
TeX Information. The idea of this is to allow easy loading of TeX FAQ
documents or other useful information. This will require modification
for your local setup.
MicroEMACS Interface. Gives you this help file.
MicroEMACS Installation. Displays the mewlatex.txt installation guide.
# main
+ topic:00
# tex_helpful_modifications
+ topic:10
# latex_input
+ topic:11
# bibtex_input
+ topic:12
# execute
+ topic:13
# debug
+ topic:14
# help
+ topic:15
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