Re: wanted: latex2e doc (ltxdoc) emacs major mode

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From: Matthew Swift
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 13:48

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Thanks for the recommendation.  

What I need, however, as my subject line says, is a major mode for producing
"doc" or "ltxdoc" documents, which are not normal latex2e, but the variant
used to document latex macros with a latex document, such that both are
contained in the same source file.  You may look at one of the .dtx files in
the base distribution for an example.  A good major mode for this kind of
document should recognize that there is latex code behind most of the
comments.  There need to be new filling functions, and a new list of parseps
and parstarts.  

auctex seems to have some interesting filling and indenting, but nothing
general enough to be adapted (without coding) to doc documents.  (I like
auctex for these, and the etags interface, but i don't use the mode since I
feel it eats too many resources for what amounts to simply ways to save
typing.)

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Subject: Re: wanted: latex2e doc (ltxdoc) emacs major mode
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