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From: des@yatton.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX mode in GNU-Emacs
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Date: 16 Oct 89 12:27:54 GMT
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In article <1109@inmos.co.uk (S. Luke Jones) writes:
>I just started using LaTeX, and I really like the LaTeX mode on
>GNU-Emacs.  (How does it know whether I'm using LaTeX or plain
>TeX, anyhow?)

I think it assumes the file is TeX unless it sees a \documentstyle
(or perhaps a \begin{document}) at which it asssumes its LateX

>I have a slight minor neglible problem, though, which is that when
>I auto-fill in either TeX or LaTeX mode, the \ (space) that I use
>in places like "Learning \LaTeX\ is neat" is not protected if it
>ends a line.  Is there a simple hack to LaTeX mode to make that
>terminal \ (space) construct safe from being auto-filled away?

There's actually no problem -- TeX translates <NL> into <SPACE>
so to the innards of TeX

	Learning \LaTeX\
	is neat

appears as

	Learning<SPACE>\LaTeX<SPACE>is<neat>

The real pain comes if the auto-fill routine splits on `-`s on the
assumtion that they're hyphens -- but Emacs LaTeX mode doesn't do
this so you're ok.


david shepherd
INMOS ltd