[AUCTeX-devel] Symbol tool bars (was: 11.84; old latex-toolbar can't be used)

[Reiner Steib]

[ Shifting this to auctex-devel: ]

On Mon, Jan 28 2008, Uwe Brauer wrote on bug-auctex:

> --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8---
> ;;; latex-toolbar.el --- XEmacs LaTeX toolbar
>
> ;; Copyright (C) 2002 Triet Hoai Lai
> ;; Author:     Triet Hoai Lai <address@hidden>
> ;; Keywords:   LaTeX, toolbar, symbol
> ;; Version:    0.4
> ;; X-URL:      http://ee.usyd.edu.au/~thlai/emacs/
> ;; X-RCS: $Id: latex-toolbar.el,v 1.11 2002/01/28 12:24:16 thlai Exp $
> --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8---
[...]
> This package has much more math symbols that the original auctex one
> and replaces it, at least that worked before 11.84, where auctex did
> not had his own toolbar, but now things might be different. 
>
> Which reminds me to ask why at least not some functionality, namely
> the huge amount of math symbols could be merged into auctex. 

There is an experimental symbol tool bar.  See the comments about
"symb-pics" and `LaTeX-symbols-experimental' in `tex-bar.el'.

> As far as I know the package does not work for GNU Emacs 21, about
> 22 I don't know, and then of course there is the problem of
> copyright.

IMHO, it would make much more sense to improve the experimental LaTeX
symbol tool bar.  (I don't remember what is missing.  You may find
something in the archives, e.g.
<http://search.gmane.org/?query=symbol&group=emacs.auctex.*&author=Frasson&sort=date>.)

Bye, Reiner.
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