AUC TeX, an environment for writing LaTeX input files using the Emacs editor, is now available on RCS UNIX systems.
To help you prepare your LaTeX document, AUC TeX has defined a number of new keystrokes, such as:
LaTeX-environment (C-c C-e): Insert a `\begin{}' -- `\end{}' pair
LaTeX-section (C-c C-s): Insert one of `\chapter', `\section', etc.
TeX-font (C-c C-f C-r, C-c C-f C-i, C-c C-f C-b): Insert one of
\textrm{ }, \textit{ \/} \textbf{ }.
AUC TeX also lets you run TeX/LaTeX and related tools from inside Emacs. For example, when you run LaTeX, AUC TeX lets you browse through the reported errors while it moves the cursor directly to the error and displays some documentation for that particular error.
To use AUC TeX, put the following line in your .emacs file:
(require 'tex-site)
Once you have done that, when you use Emacs to edit a file with a .tex extension, the special AUC TeX commands become available. In addition, the menu bar will have two additional items: "LaTeX", which provides options that make it easy to enter LaTeX commands, and "Command", which provides options for running Tex/LaTeX and related programs.
AUC TeX has many more features than those described briefly above. To learn more about how AUC TeX can help you prepare a LaTeX document, look at the manual (over 50 pages) located in the RCS directory /campus/text/auctex/9.9p/doc/. You can view it on-line by changing to that directory and issuing the following UNIX command:
xdvi auc-tex
You can print the entire manual or selected pages by using the dvips program. (See Quick Study #20, Using TeX and LaTeX on RCS, for information on using xdvi and dvips.)