Return-Path: Received: from U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa28758; 8 May 93 17:33:13 EDT Received: from U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU by U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19777; 8 May 93 17:32:43 EDT To: bovik@U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU Reply-to: Tim Freeman Subject: Detecting \begin{foo} with \end{bar} in latex Date: Sat, 08 May 93 17:32:40 -0400 Message-ID: <19775.736896760@U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU> From: Timothy_Freeman@U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU In article tsf@CS.CMU.EDU (Timothy Freeman) writes: Does anyone have pointers to a latex package that will warn me when I have a \begin{foo} matched by a \end{bar}? Here are the responses I got. I decided to use the TeX-close-LaTeX-block command in tex-mode.el. You give this command immediately after typing the \begin{foo} command; it inserts the \end{foo} command. Then you type the body of the foo environment between them. I'll forward this message to Bovik. From: Olin Shivers Subject: latex My cmulatex package has a add-matching-\end{...} command on C-space, and a latex-validate command that checks for errors of this sort. I would imagine the super-hairy auxtex package has similar functionality. -Olin From: nesmith@CTPS.TPS.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Re: Detecting \begin{foo} with \end{bar} in latex There's a program called lacheck which does this kind of checking. You should be able to find it through archie. Here's what it says given the example: ---- \begin{foo} \begin{itemize} \item foo \end{itemize} \end{bar} ----- nesmith> lacheck foo.tex "foo.tex", line 12: <- unmatched "\end{bar}" "foo.tex", line 5: -> unmatched "\begin{foo}" Dan From: Eliot Moss Subject: Detecting \begin{foo} with \end{bar} in latex Most people avoid this by using commands in latex-mode that insert both the \begin and \end stuff at once, making it hard to come out unbracketed. Given the existence of what I describe, and the moderate hairiness of what you asked for, I doubt what you asked is implemented .... EM