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The main purpose of package x-symbol is to provide some
WYSIWYGness in an area where it greatly enhance the
readability of your LaTeX or HTML
source: using "real" characters for "tokens" like \oplus
or
™
. It also provides input methods
for these characters, both for the beginner and the expert (some users
regard this as the main reason to use package x-symbol). WYSIWYG super-
and subscripts and images/figures are also supported.
flex
& cc
).
\leadsto
and that the macro is defined in LaTeX package `latexsym.sty').
\usepackage[latin5]{inputenc}
even if you normally use a
Latin-2 font.
font-lock
and removes most annoyances resulting
from the fact that many "X-Symbol characters" are actually a sequence
of two chars (not under XEmacs/Mule, of course).
<sub>
in HTML, is revealed at point.
\includegraphics{file}
in
LaTeX, <img src=file>
in HTML). They show a scaled-down
version of the included image files (using convert
from
ImageMagick).
A single mouse click on the image or command invokes the image editor
for the corresponding image file.
font-lock
, e.g., font-latex
. (I admit, the support of
super- and subscripts might let you think that this is a good point for
the todo list of package X-Symbol.)
You may use package X-Symbol in combination with iTe, an Emacs/LaTeX solution for interactive WYSIWYG placement/rotation of LaTeX fragments. Their features are orthogonal to each other.
If you want WYSIWYGness for some formatting, you should probably use LyX. Here are some reasons why you would use Emacs/XEmacs with package x-symbol instead:
Currently, package X-Symbol requires XEmacs-20.3 or higher, with or without Mule support. Look here for the support of older XEmacsen and here for support of Emacs.
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