When publishing a paper, it is often required to generate a single file for each image in the manuscript, which can be rather technically difficult when complicated figures are composed of separate plots or additional latex annotations have been added using overpic or similar. An example of a particularly complicated figure from a recent paper is
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A while ago I switched to XeLatex from Latex as it can do some amazing
things. One particularly cool thing is word counting from within the
document itself. This is great for paper abstracts! I got the code
from
here
(or possibly somewhere else with similar code – it was a while ago!)
and tweaked it a bit to produce my wordcounter environment:
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TeX-fold-mode
is a minor mode which is part of
AUCTEX, and automatically hides
a lot of the latex formatting commands. For example, \alpha is
rendered using an alpha character, and references are shortened to
[r]. Here’s an example:
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Some commands are not highlighted well in AUCTEX; these commands are
commands which AUCTEX does not know about. To do highlighting
correctly, AUCTEX needs to know the number and type of arguments
(e.g. [...] or {...}) that a given command takes before it can
highlight the arguments correctly. There is a relatively simple way to
add your own commands with specified arguments, and this chunk of
.emacs code does the job:
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