There is a really good emacs minor-mode for typing symbols in latex called x-symbol. However it is not in portage (yet) http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Is it actually ported to Emacs? I cannot make it run on Emacs 21.
Created attachment 43420 [details] x-symbol-4.5.1_beta.ebuild
Created attachment 43421 [details] 50x-symbol-gentoo.el
(In reply to comment #1) > Is it actually ported to Emacs? I cannot make it run on Emacs 21. It looks better with Emacs 22, but I get the following compile error ... >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emacs/x-symbol-4.5.1_beta/work/x-symbol ... While compiling toplevel forms in file /var/tmp/portage/app-emacs/x-symbol-4.5.1_beta/work/x-symbol/lisp/elc.32699/add.el: !! Invalid read syntax ((")")) ... which is plainly due to unbalanced parentheses in add.el: (x-symbol-init-cset x-symbol-xsymb2-cset x-symbol-xsymb2-fonts x-symbol-xsymb2-table)) It is strange that nobody has noticed this since the release (which was 4 years ago). Also, if you read the project page on Sourceforge, it looks like there is no upstream activity (e.g. no releases, dead mailing list, open bugs) since 2003.
AUCTeX seems to be the better mean of LaTeX coding to me, in 2002 David Kastrup had the same conclusion in an article for the German TeX magazine. I think upstream for X-Symbol is dead.
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