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indentation in latex-mode in emacs-23

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Message #53 received at 954 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 954 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chirok Han <chirok.han <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#954: indentation in latex-mode in emacs-23
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:01:41 +0200

> I prefer the current form because I think that
>
> \begin{math}
>   a = b
> \end{math}
>
> and
>
> \(
>   a = b
> \)
>
> should be formatted the same.

I think so too.  On the other hand, indenting habits are persistent.
And, according to Leslie, there doesn't seem to exist a convention for
indentation of LaTeX source.

> A comment in the original bug that
> motivated this change seems more convincing to me:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00045.html
>
>     The correct solution would require that \(, \), \[, and \] are
>     treated the same as \begin{math}, \end{math}, \begin{displaymath},
>     and \end{displaymath}. (The latter are defined in terms of the
>     former in latex.ltx.)
>
> But I have to admit that: i) I use AUCTeX; and ii) I don't use \( \),
> so take all that with a large grain of salt. :)

I don't know - how does AUCTeX indent this?

> So please just check that whatever change is installed does not bring
> back the original tex-validate-region problem:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00038.html

Sure.  I strongly hope that `tex-validate-region' doesn't care about
indentation.

martin

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