Re: port x-symbol to GNU emacs 24.

[Tassilo Horn]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

>    > Well, I guess you could use Emacs' built-in
>    > `prettify-symbols-mode' in order to display TeX macros using some
>    > unicode characters (or preview-latex of course).
> I just switched `prettify-symbols-mode' on in a latex buffer but
> nothing happens to \int or \alpha

You have to define the symbols in `prettify-symbols-alist', e.g., define
some `ub/prettify-symbols-alist-latex' as

  (("\\\\alpha" . ?𝛼)
   ("\\\\beta"  . ?𝛽)
   ...)

and then do

  (setq prettify-symbols-alist ub/prettify-symbols-alist-latex)

in TeX-mode-hook.

Bye,
Tassilo