Re: AucTeX fontifying: mishandling $ within \verb argument and verbatim environment.

[Peter S Galbraith]

Michael J Downes <epsmjd@ams.org> wrote:

> Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:
> 
> > I wouldn't know how to fix the \verb problem (I don't even know thta
> > LaTeX command and don't have a LaTeX book close-by), but without that
> > line the \vertabim is handled correctly by font-latex.el
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I had downloaded a copy of
> font-latex.el some time ago, "Version: 0.500 (23 Sep 97)", but
> after fetching version 0.800 from http://people.debian.org/~psg/ I did
> find that the handling of {verbatim} sections was better.

Good stuff.  It could be renamed V1.0.  It's stable now.
You said you use AucTeX.  font-latex is distributed with it so you won't
have to keep peeking at my web page for more recent versions.

> Because the \verb command does require some special syntax (LaTeX book,
> Section C.6.4), handling it properly would probably not be altogether
> straightforward.

I must admit I haven't looked into it, but if you say so.

Thanks,
Peter