Release notes for AUCTeX 11.51 ============================== AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. When combined with packages like RefTeX, preview-latex, flyspell and others, it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, and intelligent indentation and filling of the text while you enter it. Documentation and interfaces in this release are still a moving target, partly due to a lack of volunteers for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. The usual ``volunteers welcome'' applies here. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- This is primarily a bug fix release to the last major release 11.50. PDFTeX and Source Special support did not work with ConTeXt, this has been fixed. Similar for Source Special support under Windows. Some more potential installation mistakes are now diagnosed. Omega support has been added. Some user interface changes have been done and other bugs fixed. IMPORTANT: Many of the new features rely on special properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you customized this variable for a former release of AUCTeX. If this is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and re-adding your changes afterwards. Many such changes can be avoided by using other customization variables. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4 with AUCTeX. Support for Emacs 20 has been dropped in favor of getting more important work done. Unfortunately, just before release it has come to our attention that you need at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX because of non-trivial changes in easy-mmode.el. Providing backward compatibility to earlier versions would require resources we don't have right now: none of the currently active developers actually uses XEmacs. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that you can make use of the XEmacs package system to upgrade if necessary. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded from . This location is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX , including its mailing list address. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs (and merging with preview-latex probably next year). For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup . While Paypal contributions are appreciated, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Berend de Boer, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Yvon Hevel, David Kastrup, Frank Küster, Jan-Ċke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda (Please apologize if we forgot somebody.)