Re: x-symbol?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:50:45 +0200, m_mommer@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One of the things I use emacs for is writing LaTeX documents, and
> besides auctex and reftex, there is one package that is very important
> and useful to me: x-symbol. The bad news is that the package has been
> orphaned some while ago, and is suffering from bitrot. This is really
> unfortunate, because x-symbol has two features that I have not found
> anywhere else: an input method based on shortcuts and modifiers for
> quite a few latex symbols, and optic sugar for many symbols, so that
> e.g. \alpha appear as the greek letter alpha on screen. For some reason,
> I find these two features really help a lot.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
>  - does anyone have a version of x-symbol that runs on emacs 23 and is
>    willing to share it here?
> 
>  - Does anyone know of an alternative?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>        Mario

I believe that CDlatex mode does everything that x-symbol did and much
more in fact.

for the sugar, I don't know what to suggest for direct latex/tex code
but I can recommend you use org-mode for composing your text instead
and export to latex when required...  org-mode provides the display
sugar you wish (and much more).

HTH,
eric

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