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Release notes for AUCTeX 12.1 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 or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and
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others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring
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solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX
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distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax
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highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in
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the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent
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indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of
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graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source
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buffer, by virtue of its 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 24 or higher. Support for XEmacs has
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been dropped.
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Besides the change in the supported version of Emacs, there has
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been no functional change in this release, which is equivalent to
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version 11.92.
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Requirements
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------------
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It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 24.
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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:ftp://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:http://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, Mos<6F> 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, Fabrice
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Ben Hamouda, Thomas Baumann, Vincent Bela<6C>che, Berend de Boer, Uwe
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Brauer, Ken Brown, Joshua Buhl, Patrice Dumas, Arash Esbati, Werner
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Fink, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Mos<6F> Giordano, Patrick
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Gundlach, Jobst Hoffmann, Tassilo Horn, Yvon Hevel, Orlando Iovino,
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Mads Jensen, Arne J<>rgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Philip Kime,
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Oleh Krehel, Joost Kremers, Frank K<>ster, Jan-<2D>ke Larsson, Matthew
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Leach, Antoine Levitt, Leo Liu, Vladimir Lomov, Stefan Monnier, Dan
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Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Nicolas Richard, Augusto Ritter Stoffel,
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Florent Rougon, Santiago Saavedra, Davide G. M. Salvetti, R<>diger
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Sonderfeld, Holger Sparr, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian
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Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if
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we forgot somebody.)
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Footnotes:
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[1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/>
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[2] dvipng is available via its project page
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<URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN.
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