Arash Esbati <ar...@gnu.org> writes:
> Leo Stein <leo.st...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Firstly, thank you for my most-used emacs major mode! My basic elisp
>> skills mean I don't know how to do the following. I'd like to create a
>> style file for using the `standalone` class with one most important
>> feature, described below. First of all, there is both a standalone
>> package and a standalone class, and these should be treated
>> differently. Most package and class macros and options are easy to
>> handle. The one that I don't see how to handle is the standalone
>> class's option named `class`, e.g.
>>
>> \documentclass[class=revtex4-2]{standalone}
>>
>> which instructs the standalone class to load the revtex4-2 class (or
>> any other) when compiling the document. Is it possible for an AUCTeX
>> style for the standalone class to parse out the value passed to
>> `class=`, and then run `TeX-run-style-hooks` for the named class?
>
> I once started working on a standalone.el. One issue is there are
> standalone.sty and standalone.cls: Since AUCTeX doesn't make a
> difference here, we have to put all the code inside a single
> standalone.el and add some conditionals there to find out what is
> loaded. And this was another issue inside latex.el which we have
> address first and I didn't want to do before our last release. Maybe
> it's time pick this up again.
AUCTeX now has a style standalone.el which is able to parse the value
given to the class key; other features should work as well, not heavily
tested, though.
It will be available with next release, any comments welcome.
Best, Arash
