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How to Use This Setup

Some notes on how to use this wild setup.

Inserting LaTeX

LaTeX support is pretty good! If you can manage to make an equation:

\begin{equation} Γ[q] \end{equation}

Then you can type `C-c ‘` inside the block, and you’ll get to the SAME environment you would have found if you’d inserted an actual LaTeX block.

That is a nicer way to work, honestly, because then inline previewing works too.

Snippets

I’ve cloned this repository into my ~~/.spacemacs.d~. To get these to work in LaTeX, I had to:

• place the contents of the snippets folder that repo into snippets/text-mode
• mkdir org-mode latex-mode
• Copy the dotfiles from the text-mode folder into each subfolder:

cp text-mode/.yas-parents latex-mode
cp text-mode/.yas-make-groups latex-mode
cp text-mode/.yas-ignore-filenames-as-triggers latex-mode
mv text-mode/.yas-parents org-mode
mv text-mode/.yas-make-groups org-mode
mv text-mode/.yas-ignore-filenames-as-triggers org-mode

This makes the snippets accessible. Now that I have this, I can type eq, then at the end type M-/ for hippie-expand and get a nice equation block. So good!

I’ve also added the auto-completion layer to get this going:

(auto-completion :variables
                    auto-completion-return-key-behavior 'complete
                    auto-completion-tab-key-behavior 'complete
                    auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t)

Things I want

References via RefTex

I haven’t done this yet, but it would be excellent to be able to set up references using Reftex. I’ve never done this properly. Nice opportunity here, when I already have a number of references to other guides that I want to share.

Equations INSIDE org-mode

cdlatex is the answer here. This is not so bad right now, I can always go into the latex context, but this might make it more natural.