Release notes for AUCTeX 11.92 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 ------------------------------------------- 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. 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. NOTE: This will be the last release in the 11 series. Version 12 of AUCTeX, which is due to come in a few days, will support only GNU Emacs 24 or higher. Availability ------------ The easiest way for getting AUCTeX, for users running Emacs 24.1 or higher, is installing it with GNU ELPA, see for more information. Other download options are available at . 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 , 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] [2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs for Windows at . [3] See e.g. for a list of precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X. [4] dvipng is available via its project page and from CTAN.