preview-latex: x-symbol interoperation
5.3 x-symbol interoperation
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Thanks to the work of Christoph Wedler, starting with version
'4.0h/beta' of x-symbol, the line parsing of AUCTeX and preview-latex is
fully supported. Earlier versions exhibit problems. However, versions
before 4.2.2 will cause a drastic slowdown of preview-latex's parsing
pass, so we don't recommend to use versions earlier than that.
If you wonder what x-symbol is, it is a package that transforms
various tokens and subscripts to a more readable form while editing and
offers a few input methods handy especially for dealing with math. Take
a look at <http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net>.
x-symbol versions up to 4.5.1-beta at least require an 8bit-clean TeX
implementation (meaning that its terminal output should not use
'^^'-started escape sequences) for cooperation with preview-latex.
Later versions may get along without it, like preview-latex does now.
If you experience problems with 'circ.tex' in connection with both
x-symbol and Latin-1 characters, you may need to change your language
environment or, as a last resort, customize the variable
'LaTeX-command-style' by replacing the command 'latex' with 'latex
-translate-file=cp8bit'.
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