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Release notes for AUCTeX 13.3 with preview-latex
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AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated
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environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with
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Emacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is
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pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a
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large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It
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supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily
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accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a
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number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of
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text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like
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math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its
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preview-latex component.
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One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty'
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file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is
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available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1]
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AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks:
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documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material,
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sleuth work, testing.
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New features and fixed bugs in this release
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AUCTeX now requires GNU Emacs 26.1 or higher.
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LaTeX abbrevs are now available in docTeX mode buffers.
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AUCTeX temporarily rebinds the variable ‘gc-cons-percentage’ to a
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higher value during parsing which speeds up the process
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significantly. The memory pressure should still be acceptable,
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even on older machines.
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Macros provided by the ‘xparse’ package are part of LaTeX kernel
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since October 2020. AUCTeX tracks this change and the content of
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‘xparse.el’ is moved into ‘latex.el’ and ‘font-latex.el’
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respectively.
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The variable ‘preview-scale-function’ is now allowed as a
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file-local variable where the assigned value can only be between
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0.1 and 10.
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Requirements
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It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 27.1.
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The preview-latex subsystem requires image support.
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You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript.
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dvipng[2] (version 1.4 or later), a very fast DVI converter, can be
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used to speed up the conversion.
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Availability
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The easiest way for getting AUCTeX is installing it with GNU ELPA, see
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<URL:https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/auctex.html> for more information.
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Other download options are available at
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<URL:https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the
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source tarball. You can also use versions of Emacs that already
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include AUCTeX or a software package management system for your
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operating system which provides you with the latest release.
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A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the
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tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet.
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The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN.
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AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX
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<URL:https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list
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addresses.
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Future development and additional information
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---------------------------------------------
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AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of
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merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to
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assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual
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procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past
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contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done
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so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find
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and ask the rest.
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Current AUCTeX managers are Arash Esbati, Mosè Giordano, and Tassilo
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Horn. Everybody is welcome to contribute to the project by reporting
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bugs and suggesting improvements, but the most effective way of
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helping AUCTeX development remains volunteering for tasks.
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The following people contributed to this release series (in
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alphabetical order): Ivan Andrus, Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka,
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Mohammad Hossein Bateni, Fabrice Ben Hamouda, Thomas Baumann, Vincent
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Belaïche, Berend de Boer, Alex Branham, Uwe Brauer, Ken Brown, Joshua
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Buhl, Jean-François Burnol, Patrice Dumas, Arash Esbati, Werner Fink,
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Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Mosè Giordano, Andrea Greselin,
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Patrick Gundlach, Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali, Jobst Hoffmann, Tassilo Horn,
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Yvon Hevel, Orlando Iovino, Mads Jensen, Arne Jørgensen, Philip
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Kaludercic, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Philip Kime, Oleh Krehel,
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Joost Kremers, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Matthew Leach, Brian
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Leung, Antoine Levitt, Leo Liu, Vladimir Lomov, Stefan Monnier, Paul
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Nelson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Pieter Pareit, Nicolas
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Richard, Augusto Ritter Stoffel, Florent Rougon, Santiago Saavedra,
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Davide G. M. Salvetti, Rüdiger Sonderfeld, Holger Sparr, Mike Sperber,
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Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin, Tony
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Zorman (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.)
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Footnotes:
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[1] <URL:https://www.ctan.org/pkg/preview>
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[2] dvipng is available via its project page
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<URL:https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN.
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