Re: [AUCTeX] adding C-c C-f C-p shortcut for \textipa

[Roger Levy]

Ralf Angeli wrote:
> * Roger Levy (2008-01-22) writes:
>
> > I am a linguist who uses AucTeX and I would like to add a key binding
> > for C-c C-f C-p that behaves exactly like other C-c C-f * commands
> > (e.g., C-c C-f C-e for \emph), but introduces the textfont \textipa
> > (from the tipa package, for the International Phonetic Alphabet). How
> > would I do this? It looks to me like I need to customize TeX-font-list 
> > but I'm not sure the best way to do it (I'd prefer to doing this in my 
> > .emacs file directly to using Emacs customization menus).
>
> This is surprising because 1) the customization interface is supposed to
> provide an easy way of customizing variable for people not fluent in
> Lisp (but not limited to them) and 2) the changes _are_ directly written
> to the init file.
>
> So you could do
> M-x customize-variable <RET> LaTeX-font-list <RET>
> (assuming you are going to use \textipa in LaTeX mode), change the
> value, save it and be done.

OK -- I have done this and it seems to work after saving and restarting 
emacs.  Thanks a lot (though it took me a while to figure out that I 
could only insert ^P as a character with the sequence C-q C-p)!

> If you really want to manually put some code which you might not
> understand into your init file, then use something like the following
> (not tested):
>
> (add-to-list 'LaTeX-font-list '(?\C-p "\\textipa{" "}"))

My justification for wanting to put it into my .emacs file is so that I 
can more easily make the same change to multiple machines.  I generally 
feel comfortable enough with Emacs lisp to understand simple code 
snippets and make my own changes, but not fluent enough to come up with 
my own novel snippets for this kind of customization.

At any rate, the snippet above doesn't turn out to work (I'm guessing 
that emacs doesn't know about LaTeX-font-list until a LaTeX document has 
actually been opened?), so I'll stick with the user-friendly 
customization for now.

> > [this is also posted on gnu.emacs.help]
>
> Simultaneous multi-posting is usually considered bad practice.  It often
> leads to redundant support work and answers since people from one list
> might not see what people from the other list have answered.

OK, I consider myself duly scolded.  I only committed this error in this 
case because I had already posted the question to gnu.emacs.help when I 
realized that the AUCTeX mailing list is really probably the better 
forum.  I've posted a new message on the gnu.emacs.help thread directing 
people not to respond.

Thanks very much for the help!

Best

Roger


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