Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] fontification of "|" (vertical bar) deliminter

[Tassilo Horn]

"Nicolas Richard" <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Nicolas,

>> I recently upgraded to mavericks on my mac, and in doing so upgraded
>> to emacs version 24.3, and then auctex 11.87. I do a lot of
>> probability in latex, and hence use the vertical bar "|" character
>> for specifying conditional probability, i.e, things like p(a|b).
>
> Some styles (e.g. memoir) load the style for 'shortvrb' (See
> (find-library "style/shortvrb.el")), which includes the behaviour you
> describe.
>
> I suggested before to not load shortvrb when loading memoir:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-auctex/2013-02/msg00000.html
>
> As a workaround, I have (setq LaTeX-shortvrb-chars nil) in my .emacs.

Hm, when I find this file

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
This is |foo| and this is |bar|.
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

neither foo or bar are fontified, although the | is in the syntax alist:

,----
| font-latex-syntax-alist is a variable defined in `font-latex.el'.
| Its value is shown below.
| 
| Documentation:
| List of specifiers for the syntax alist of `font-lock-defaults'.
| 
| Value: ((40 . ".")
|  (41 . ".")
|  (36 . "\"")
|  (64 . "w")
|  (124 . "|"))
`----

Do I need to customize anything to get the fontification you describe?

BTW, I've noticed that compiling the document prints --foo-- and
--bar--, not foo and bar printed verbatim.  To get that effect, I need
to add \MakeShortVerb{\|}.

Doesn't shortvrb add the | as short verb by default?  If so, then
LaTeX-shortvrb-chars should probably be nil anyway.

Bye,
Tassilo