Supporting Other Format Packages

You can add support for new TeX format packages. These are treated specially, in that they are loaded immediately after you enter VirTeX-mode, and they actually define the major mode.

Here is the file defining slitex-mode.

;;;  SLITEX.el - Special code for SliTeX mode.

(require 'tex-init)
(require 'ltx-misc)

(TeX-add-style-hook "SLITEX"
 (function
  (lambda ()
    (setq mode-name "SliTeX")
    (setq major-mode 'SliTeX-mode)  
    (setq TeX-command-default TeX-command-SliTeX)
    (LaTeX-mode-initialization)
    (run-hooks 'SliTeX-mode-hook)
    (TeX-run-style-hooks "latex" "slitex"))))

The file should be placed in the directory TeX-format-directory.

User Option: TeX-format-directory

Directory containing information about TeX format packages. Must end with a slash.

You must also add an entry to TeX-format-list in order to make in known to the rest of the system.

User Option: TeX-format-list

List of format packages to consider when choosing a TeX mode.

A list with a entry for each format package available at the site.

Each entry is a list with three elements.

1. The name of the format package.
2. The name of the major mode.
3. A regexp typically matched in the beginning of the file.

When entering tex-mode, each regexp is tried in turn in order to find when major mode to enter.