Re: syntax highlighting for latex elements

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Chris Beard <wcbeard10@wabash.edu> writes:

> Hello,
> After learning that I can output my Org documents (with tables,
> outlined notes and all!) into LaTeX, I've started writing some notes
> with the intention of exporting them to LaTeX. So I've been typing
> stuff like (sorry, I'm not sure about the standard for formatting code
> for emails):

[...]

> This stuff outputs fine to tex files, but one thing I'd like is LaTeX
> syntax highlighting for things like \begin{...}\frac{...}\end{}. I can
> get highlighting in code source blocks, but that gets exported in
> verbatim environments in the LaTeX output. If I want syntax
> highlighting for these things, should I just be editing a standard
> .tex file with the appropriate emacs mode, or is there a (hopefully
> simple) way to turn on syntax highlighting for LaTeX elements in
> standard org-mode?
>
> Thank you
> Chris

You can enclose the latex:

#+begin_latex
 \begin{equation}
   F_2(s) = \frac{r_1}{s+2} + \frac{r_2}{s+4} + \frac{r_3}{s+6},
 \end{equation}
#+end_latex

Then, with point within this block, you can type C-c ' which will allow
you to edit the latex in a latex-mode buffer with proper fontification.

For source code blocks, you should be able to tell it to export the code
as latex:

#+begin_src latex :exports results :results latex
 \begin{equation}
   F_2(s) = \frac{r_1}{s+2} + \frac{r_2}{s+4} + \frac{r_3}{s+6},
 \end{equation}
#+end_src

and you will get fortification within org-mode if you set
org-src-fontify-natively to be t.  However, there are (currently) some
performance issues with this approach.

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