Working with Latex under Emacs
Table of Contents
- 1. When things go wrong running C-c C-c to generate *.bbl from *.bib.
- 2. The correct way to insert newlines in a section of text, not a paragraph.
- 3. Why do you sometimes encounter the WARNING underfull hbox?
- 4. How to make the necessary packages to compile the tex files for IEEE conference and transactions?
It is high time that I read papers and work with my teammates to do some research works on Computer Architecture, after some awful experience with MS Word, I decided to use latex to take notes. In this post, I will briefly record the various problems encountered when using emacs+auctex.
1 When things go wrong running C-c C-c to generate *.bbl from *.bib.
I admit emacs is smart enough to do what is supposed to do in a latex buffer,
but sometimes things may get more complicated than emacs itself can resolve,
so it is necessary to help emacs a little.
The problem is that when I run C-c C-c to a latex buffer, it failed to
generate the *.aux and *.bbl files, which are used for bib, the way to solve
this problem is to run the following commands manually:
| pdflatex jobname.tex | Generate the jobname.aux file for bibtex |
| bibtex jobname.aux | Create the jobname.bbl from the jobname.aux file |
| pdflatex jobname.tex | Generate the pdf file from the above files |
| pdflatex jobname.tex | Resolve undefined reference |
2 The correct way to insert newlines in a section of text, not a paragraph.
Line break accepts optional argument in brackets, whirs tells the vertical length to separate:
| line1 |
| \[1aselineskip] |
| line2 |
3 Why do you sometimes encounter the WARNING underfull hbox?
This problem has something to do with the inter-word space of one line, when all the words in the line can not be cut properly, latex will complain about, so re-word the sentence can always solve the problem. By the way, latex can still produce the correct document if you ignore the warning.
4 How to make the necessary packages to compile the tex files for IEEE conference and transactions?
When texlive (not texlive-full) is installed, not all packages are installed by default, but avoid the temptation to try sudo apt-get install texlive-full, it will eat up much disk space, perhaps more than 2 GB. What is needed is texlive-science and a IEEEtran.bst file.