[AUCTeX] Re: In included files, AucteX does not recognize macros called by master file.

[George Nurser]

Hi,
This problem sorted itself out when I cleaned out all the auxiliary files....:)
Sorry for the noise

--George Nurser

On 5 August 2010 22:39, George Nurser <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've reposted this from the help gnu-emacs list.
>
> Hi,
> I'm running Aquamacs 2.1. I have a directory
> /Users/agn/Library/texmf/tex/latex that contains my personal style files.
>
> In particular /Users/agn/Library/texmf/tex/latex/my
> styles/math_abbrev.sty contains some macros to simplify inputting
> maths
>
> I was hoping to get AucTeX to recognize these macros so command
> completion with M-TAB and C-c RET works on them.
>
> Section 11.2 of the AucTeX manual (v11.86) seems to explain how to do
> this, but I must be missing something.
> It suggests I do
> M-x TeX-auto-generate
>
> When I do this, it suggests various directories; first
> ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/ then (after uparrow) it offers individual
> style files
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/my styles/head_bolus.sty
> I truncated this to
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/
> and then Emacs created a whole load of .el files (one for each .sty
> files) in the directory
> /Users/agn/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/auctex/auto
>
> Autocompletion now works perfectly for self-sufficient files…:)
>
> However, my problem is that the files I want to use macros in are
> chapters, [chapter1.tex ..2,tex etc..]
> and are included in a file master.tex. It is master.tex that does
> \usepackage{mystyle}, so there is no explicit mention of mystyle in
> the chapter file chaptern.tex.
>
> From my reading of the AucTeX manual, I added
> % Local Variables:
> % TeX-master: "../../master.tex"
> % End:
>
> in my file chaptern.tex
>
> This seems to have worked so far as
> (i) C-h v TeX-master in chaptern.tex gives
> TeX-master is a variable defined in `tex.el'.
> Its value is
> "../../master.tex"
> Local in buffer Chap_NEU.tex; global value is t
>
> (ii) C-c C-c in chaptern.tex now applies commands to ../../master.tex
> I hadn't previously realized that this was possible:)
>
> However, macro completion in chaptern.tex still does not know about
> the commands defined in /Users/agn/Library/texmf/tex/latex/my
> styles/mystyle.sty.
> Nor are the AMSmath environments like align, usepackaged in
> ../../master.tex, available from AucTeX in chaptern.tex....
>
> Clearly I'm still missing something. Or is there something I can do to
> debug the problem?
>
> Many thanks for your help, George Nurser.
>