Re: TeX output mode

[Óscar Fuentes]

Flávio Moura <flavio.de.moura@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to use emacs as an interface for a program that receives
> expressions and return expressions that use TeX tokens like \lambda
> \to etc. In this way, I would like to open a file containing tokens
> like \lambda into an emacs buffer that should shows the lambda symbol
> instead of the expression \lambda. I know that this can be done from
> the keyboard by setting the TeX input-mode, but I need the same effect
> when loading a file containing TeX commands.
>
> I sucessfully used emacs 22 and x-symbol package as an interface for
> this program. The problem is that x-symbol no longer works with emacs
> 23.
>
> Any help is very welcome.

Not sure if this method works with Emacs 23 (it does with Emacs 24) but
after visiting the file, try:

M-x org-mode
C-c C-x \

If it doesn't work and can't upgrade, you can try installing the latest
version of org-mode (http://org-mode.org) along with your Emacs 23.