Re: [AUCTeX] Can't access the functionality in beamer.el

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> Do you see something like
> Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style/beamer.elc...done
> in the *Messages* buffer after loading test_beamer3.tex?  (BTW, is it
> save to use underscores in file names with TeX?  I faintly remember
> that this could cause trouble.  If it does, it is unrelated to the
> problems with beamer.el, though.)

It only causes trouble if the format sets _ to a catcode and/or
definition that does not expand to a character token.  The xmltex
format in its current version has this problem, and we had a major
messup at my work place because of this just today.

I actually have no idea how this is supposed to play together with
%&format
comment lines.

With normal plain TeX, LaTeX or iniTeX settings, _ is safe to use in
startup filenames, as opposed to ~.

Using something like underscore.sty, an \input in the middle of the
document might cause trouble again.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum