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Introduction

Overview of AUCTeX
Installing AUCTeX
- Prerequisites
  Activating the package
  Providing AUCTeX as a package
  Using AUCTeX from ELPA-devel
  Using AUCTeX from local Git repo
  Customizing
Quick Start
- Functions for editing TeX files
  - Making your TeX code more readable
    Entering sectioning commands
    Inserting environments
    Inserting macros
    Changing the font
    Other useful features
  Creating and viewing output, debugging
  - One Command for LaTeX, helpers, viewers, and printing
    Choosing an output format
    Debugging LaTeX
    Running LaTeX on parts of your document

Editing the Document Source

Insertion of Quotes, Dollars, and Braces
Inserting Font Specifiers
Inserting chapters, sections, etc.
Inserting Environment Templates
- Equations
  Floats
  Itemize-like Environments
  Tabular-like Environments
  Customizing Environments
Entering Mathematics
Completion
Marking Environments, Sections, or Texinfo Nodes
- LaTeX Commands for Marking Environments and Sections
  Texinfo Commands for Marking Environments and Sections
Commenting
Indenting
Filling

Controlling Screen Display

Font Locking
- Fontification of macros
  Fontification of quotes
  Fontification of mathematical constructs
  Verbatim macros and environments
  Faces used by font-latex
  Known fontification problems
Folding Macros and Environments
Outlining the Document
Narrowing
Prettifying

Starting Processors, Viewers and Other Programs

Executing Commands
- Starting a Command on a Document or Region
  Selecting and Executing a Command
  Options for TeX Processors
Viewing the Formatted Output
- Starting Viewers
  Forward and Inverse Search
Catching the errors
- Controlling warnings to be reported
  List of all errors and warnings
Checking for problems
Controlling the output
Cleaning intermediate and output files
Documentation about macros and packages

Customization and Extension

Modes and Hooks
Multifile Documents
Automatic Parsing of TeX Files
Language Support
- Using AUCTeX with European Languages
  - Typing and Displaying Non-ASCII Characters
    Style Files for Different Languages
  Using AUCTeX with Japanese TeX
Automatic Customization
- Automatic Customization for the Site
  Automatic Customization for a User
  Automatic Customization for a Directory
Writing Your Own Style Support
- A Simple Style File
  Adding Support for Macros
  Adding Support for Environments
  Adding or Examining Other Information
  - Adding bibliographies in style hooks
    Examining Package/Class Options
    Adding Support for Option Completion
  Automatic Extraction of New Things

Copying, Changes, Development, FAQ, Texinfo Mode

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- GNU Free Documentation License
Changes and New Features
Future Development
- Mid-term Goals
  Wishlist
  Bugs
Frequently Asked Questions
Features specific to AUCTeX’s Texinfo major mode
- How AUCTeX and the native mode work together
  Where the native mode is superseded
  Where key bindings are mapped to the native mode
  Which native mode key bindings are missing

Indices

Key Index
Function Index
Variable Index
Concept Index

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