Re: Auctex and font size

[David Kastrup]

Joakim Hove <hove@ift.uib.no> writes:

> I have recently moved to a new workplace, and here they have a
> bleeding edge? ("CVS-5.426") AUCTeX installation.

That's 11.50.  The version number for that release was faulty, so your
administrators did not really install a CVS version.  Still 11.53 has
quite a few fixes over that: 11.50 was the first in the series.

> Suddenly I find that auctex automagically increases and decreases
> symbol size according to context, i.e. in math mode x^2 the (to be)
> raised "2" is represented by a smaller font in the buffer window.
>
> At first it looks really neat - but in particular when aligning large
> equations it gets a bit in the way. Is it possible to turn off this
> feature?

Try
M-x customize-variable RET font-latex-fontify-script RET

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum