org: CDLaTeX mode
11.7.5 Using CDLaTeX to enter math
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CDLaTeX mode is a minor mode that is normally used in combination with a
major LaTeX mode like AUCTeX in order to speed-up insertion of
environments and math templates. Inside Org mode, you can make use of
some of the features of CDLaTeX mode. You need to install ‘cdlatex.el’
and ‘texmathp.el’ (the latter comes also with AUCTeX) from
<http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/cdlatex>. Don’t use CDLaTeX
mode itself under Org mode, but use the light version ‘org-cdlatex-mode’
that comes as part of Org mode. Turn it on for the current buffer with
‘M-x org-cdlatex-mode RET’, or for all Org files with
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-org-cdlatex)
When this mode is enabled, the following features are present (for
more details see the documentation of CDLaTeX mode):
• Environment templates can be inserted with ‘C-c {’.
• The <TAB> key will do template expansion if the cursor is inside a
LaTeX fragment(1). For example, <TAB> will expand ‘fr’ to
‘\frac{}{}’ and position the cursor correctly inside the first
brace. Another <TAB> will get you into the second brace. Even
outside fragments, <TAB> will expand environment abbreviations at
the beginning of a line. For example, if you write ‘equ’ at the
beginning of a line and press <TAB>, this abbreviation will be
expanded to an ‘equation’ environment. To get a list of all
abbreviations, type ‘M-x cdlatex-command-help RET’.
• Pressing ‘_’ and ‘^’ inside a LaTeX fragment will insert these
characters together with a pair of braces. If you use <TAB> to
move out of the braces, and if the braces surround only a single
character or macro, they are removed again (depending on the
variable ‘cdlatex-simplify-sub-super-scripts’).
• Pressing the grave accent ‘`’ followed by a character inserts math
macros, also outside LaTeX fragments. If you wait more than 1.5
seconds after the grave accent, a help window will pop up.
• Pressing the apostrophe ‘'’ followed by another character modifies
the symbol before point with an accent or a font. If you wait more
than 1.5 seconds after the apostrophe, a help window will pop up.
Character modification will work only inside LaTeX fragments;
outside the quote is normal.
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(1) Org mode has a method to test if the cursor is inside such a
fragment, see the documentation of the function
‘org-inside-LaTeX-fragment-p’.
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