Introduction

AUC TeX is a comprehensive customizable integrated environment for writing input files for LaTeX using GNU Emacs. AUC TeX lets you run TeX/LaTeX and other LaTeX-related tools, such as a output filters or post processor from inside Emacs. Especially `running LaTeX' is interesting, as AUC TeX lets you browse through the errors TeX reported, while it moves the cursor directly to the reported error, and displays some documentation for that particular error. This will even work when the document is spread over several files. AUC TeX automatically indents your `LaTeX-source', not only as you write it--you can also let it indent and format an entire document. It has a special outline feature, which can greatly help you `getting the overview' of a document. Apart from these special features, AUC TeX provides an large range of handy Emacs macros, which in several different ways can help you write your LaTeX documents fast and without pain. Here's a short list of the major features:

• Insertion of templates for logical-structural compositions such as environments and sections.
• Hot-keys for easy access to certain often used constructs, e.g., font changes, accented letters, and mathematical symbols.
• Running application programs (such as TeX), and then parsing the output so that errors in the document may be located easily.
• Support for multi-file documents.
• Online help for (La)TeX error messages.
• Outlining--i.e., manipulating the document as a composition of nested/sequential logical constructs.
• Instant formatting and indentation of the ASCII-document in order to make it easier to read.
• `Completion' (and thereby spell-checking) of partially written control sequences.