RefTeX is a reference management software package designed for use with

Emacs Emacs (), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, s ...

and

BibTeX BibTeX is both a bibliographic flat-file database file format and a software program for processing these files to produce lists of references (citations). The BibTeX file format is a widely used standard with broad support by reference manage ...

. While it can cooperate effectively with the popular

AUCTeX AUCTeX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs and XEmacs. Package AUCTeX provides syntax highlighting, smart indentation and formatting, previews of mathematics and other elements directly in the editing buffer, s ...

package, it is not strictly necessary to use them together. RefTeX obviates the need to tediously search through different parts of a LaTeX document and associated BibTeX files when using cross-referencing macros such as \label, \ref, \cite, and \index. It also provides an interface for visualizing and quickly navigating a LaTeX document's structure. RefTeX is distributed under the

GNU General Public License The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or ''copyleft'' licenses, that guarantee end users the freedom to run, study, share, or modify the software. The GPL was the first ...

. It was originally written by Carsten Dominik, the author of

org-mode Mode (also: ''org-mode''; ) is a mode for document editing, formatting, and organizing within the free software text editor GNU Emacs and its derivatives, designed for notes, planning, and authoring. The name is used to encompass plain text fi ...

and CDLaTeX, with contributions by Stephen Eglen, and is currently maintained by the AUCTeX project. It has been bundled and pre-installed with Emacs since version 20.2.

References

External links

RefTeX
homepage Free BibTeX software Emacs Linux TeX software {{digital-typography-stub