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From: neilc@natmlab.dms.oz (Neil Crellin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Using abbrev mode while editing {La,}TeX?
Message-ID: <5947@natmlab.dms.oz>
Date: 5 Aug 89 08:34:43 GMT
References: <8907311559.AA00226@toucan.LCS.MIT.EDU> <8907311924.AA26177@NMSU.Edu> <4749@omepd.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)

In article <4749@omepd.UUCP>, merlyn@iwarp (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <8907311924.AA26177@NMSU.Edu>, jthomas@nmsu writes:
>| Presumably Neil understood that the easiest way is to type "z" instead of
>| "Z", since the abbreviation replacement is taking the case of the entered
>| text.

This was something I had forgotten, and I apologise for that.

>or, 26 lines like:
>
>"a" 0 "a" (lambda () (forward-char -1) (insert "{\\bf ") (forward-char 1) (insert "}"))
>

Actually, just one line:

"z" 0 "z" (lambda .............as above..)

This is exactly what I was after for the letter Z only. (that's zed. not zee)

>And then, instead, why even use abbrev's?  Why not just code them, and
>do a global sub later?  I mean, look for all the @A, and replace with
>{\bf A}... ?

Sure. Or I could use bard's suggestions and \newcommand in LaTeX or \def in
TeX. I didn't want to, that's all there was to it. I figured abbrev-mode
should be able to handle it and couldn't see how to make it. Now I know.

Many thanks for all the help.

--
Neil Crellin, CSIRO Maths & Stats, Sydney, Australia. (neilc@dmssyd.dms.oz.au)

"In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying
about had reached a nearly unbelievable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the
mother of the boy, Paul." - Frank Herbert, Dune