Re: [AUCTeX] Meaning of AUCTeX and Master file

[David Kastrup]

Giancarlo Bassi <address@hidden> writes:

> I have two questions:
>
> 1) what's the meaning of the short AUCTeX

AUC is short for Aalborg Universitets Center (or something like that),
which is the old name of the Aalborg university, or its computing
center.

It's where AUCTeX came into being originally.

> 2) what's the Master file which should be handled with installation LISP
>    statement, as follows:
>
>    If  you  want  to  make  AUCTeX  aware  of  style files and multi-file
>    documents right away, insert the following in your .emacs file.
>      (setq TeX-auto-save t)
>      (setq TeX-parse-self t)
>      (setq-default TeX-master nil)

The file containing \documentclass, most likely.  What you run through
TeX when you want to compile the document.  If a document is spread
across multiple files, only one file can usually be run through TeX or
LaTeX.  That's the master file.

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