[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Good and bad news

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Feb 01 2008, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>
>    > You also did "Customize `TeX-bar-LaTeX-buttons', adding the label
>    > `LaTeX-symbols-experimental' at the end." here, right?
>
> Yes of course.
>
>    >> 3 I restart my xemacs with all my initializations but now set
>    >> (setq LaTeX-symbols-toolbar-visible-flag nil)
>
>    > I don't understand why you insist on fiddling with an internal
>    > variable.
>
> Because of what the doc string states:
>     "Non-nil means that the LaTeX symbols on toolbar are visible."

It's just an _internal_ variable that indicates the state, AFAICS.
(Disclaimer: I'm not at all familiar with the texbar.el/toolbar-x.el
code.)  If it would be a user variable, it would be either
customizable or its doc string would start with "*".

> So the problem is I see two new toolbar buttons
>
>     -   a $∑$ and a sort of $√$ next to it 

A sum and a green checkmark.  This is supposed to indicate that
pressing this icon *will* enable the symbol tool bar.
In Emacs, the tool tip says:
"Turn on the toolbar of LaTeX symbols (current class: ...)"
It toggles the visibility of the selected symbol tool bar.

See this screen shot (tex-bar-symbol-invisible.png):

>     -  a  ∨ 
>
> Pressing  ∨  states then that I could select a class of symbols I
> activate Greek upcase.
>
> But when I press ∑ then   $√$ changes to a × but other than that 
> *nothing* happens.

It toggles the visibility of the selected symbol tool bar.  Did you
really install the icons from Miguel's site in a subdirectory
symb-pics as described in the commentary?  If I don't, I get the
behavior described by you as well.

With a correct installation, if I press the [∑√] icon (sum+checkmark
aka images/ltx-symb-turn-on.xpm), I get (tex-bar-symbol-visible.png):

Here's the command line I used to activate the symbol tool bar (-Q
more or less is like -vanilla in XEmacs, IIRC):

emacs -Q --eval '(load "auctex.el" nil t t)' -l tex-bar \
  --eval "(add-to-list 'TeX-bar-LaTeX-buttons 'latex-symbols-experimental t)" \
  /tmp/x.tex

Bye, Reiner.
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