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3.1 Entering Mathematics

TeX is written by a mathematician, and has always contained good support for formatting mathematical text. AUCTeX supports this tradition, by offering a special minor mode for entering text with many mathematical symbols. You can enter this mode by typing C-c ~.

Command: LaTeX-math-mode
(C-c ~) Toggle LaTeX-math-mode. This is a minor mode rebinding the key LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix to allow easy typing of mathematical symbols. ` will read a character from the keyboard, and insert the symbol as specified in LaTeX-math-list. If given a prefix argument, the symbol will be surrounded by dollar signs.

You can use another prefix key (instead of `) by setting the variable LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix.

User Option: LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix
A string containing the prefix of LaTeX-math-mode commands; This value defaults to `.

The variable LaTeX-math-list holds the actual mapping.

User Option: LaTeX-math-list
A list containing key command mappings to use in LaTeX-math-mode. The car of each element is the key and the cdr is the macro name.

AUCTeX's reference card `tex-ref.tex' includes a list of all math mode commands.



This document was generated by Davide G. M. Salvetti on September, 8 2004 using texi2html