Emacs - CDLaTeX

Introduction

CDLaTeX¹ is a minor mode for fast LaTeX environment and macro insertion². In this sense, its functionalities are very similar to AUCTeX³. What's more, some of its convenience provided are also covered by AUCTeX.

Installation

The package of cdlatex is available at melpa, which can be easily installed.

Configuration

If AUCTeX is installed, CDLaTeX can be activated on top of it via

(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-cdlatex)

Otherwise, CDLaTeX can be directly turned on with latex mode, i.e.,

(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-cdlatex)

Org

In org mode, instead of CDLaTeX itself, its light version org-cdlatex-mode should be used, which depends on cdlatex.el (in package CDLaTeX) and texmathp (in package AUCTeX). To automatically turn it on in a org file, add the following line in the emacs configuration file, e.g., ~/init.el.

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-org-cdlatex)

Usage

Keybinding

Keybinding	Functionality
`C-c ?`	`cdlatex-command-help`
`C-c {`	`cdlatex-environment`
`C-c -`	`cdlatex-item`
`$`	`cdlatex-dollar`
`(`	`cdlatex-pbb`
`[`	`cdlatex-pbb`
`{`	`cdlatex-pbb`
\|	`cdlatex-pbb`
`<`	`cdlatex-pbb`
`^`	`cdlatex-sub-superscript`
`_`	`cdlatex-sub-superscript`
`TAB`	`cdlatex-tab`
`	`cdlatex-math-symbol`
`'`	`cdlatex-math-modify`

Backquote (`) + character

By CDLaTeX, mathematical symbols can be easily input by a backquote (`) followed by a character. In order to support more mathematical symbols, CDLaTeX defines 3 different levels, which can be entered by a different number of backquotes before a character.

Prefix + `TAB`

CDLaTeX can automatically expand a variety of prefix + TAB bindings as follows.

Prefix	Functionality
`pref`	Make page reference
`ref`	Make reference
`lbl`	Insert automatic label at point
`ct`	Insert `\cite`
`cte`	Make a citation interactively
`cite{`	Make a citation interactively
`beg`	Complete an environment name and insert template
`env`	Complete an environment name and insert template
`it`	New item in current environment
`ite`	Insert an `ITEMIZE` environment template
`enu`	Insert an `ENUMERATE` environment template
`equ`	Insert an `EQUATION` environment template
`eqn`	Insert an `EQUATION` environment template
`ali`	Insert an `ALIGN` environment template
`ali*`	Insert an `ALIGN*` environment template
`alit`	Insert an `ALIGNAT` environment template
`alit*`	Insert an `ALIGNAT*` environment template
`xal`	Insert a `XALIGNAT` environment template
`xal*`	Insert a `XALIGNAT*` environment template
`xxa`	Insert a `XXALIGNAT` environment template
`xxa*`	Insert a `XXALIGNAT` environment template
`mul`	Insert a `MULTINE` environment template
`mul*`	Insert a `MULTINE*` environment template
`gat`	Insert a `GATHER` environment template
`gat*`	Insert a `GATHER*` environment template
`fla`	Insert a `FLALIGN` environment template
`fla*`	Insert a `FLALIGN*` environment template
`fg`	Insert a `FIGURE` environment template
`sn`	Insert a `\section{}` statement
`ss`	Insert a `\subsection{}` statement
`sss`	Insert a `\subsubsection{}` statement
`pf`	Insert a `\paragraph{}` statement
`sp`	Insert a `\subparagraph{}` statement
`ssp`	Insert a `\subsubparagraph{}` statement
`cl`	Insert `\centerline`
`inc`	Insert `\includegraphics` with file name
`lr(`	Insert a `\left( \right)` pair
`lr[`	Insert a `\left[ \right]` pair
`lr{`	Insert a `\left{ \right}` pair
`lr<`	Insert a `\left\langle \right\rangle` pair
`caseeq`	Insert a `= {` construct
`fr`	Insert `\frac{}{}`
`sq`	Insert `\sqrt{}`
`intl`	Insert `\int\limits_{}^{}`
`suml`	Insert `\sum\limits_{}^{}`
`nonum`	Insert `\nonumber\\`
`fn`	Make a `footnote`
`qq`	Insert `\quad`
`qqq`	Insert `\qquad`

Footnotes

It is named after its author, Carsten Dominik.

https://github.com/cdominik/cdlatex

http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex