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Tw Help Latex2e ver 0.55, February 1^st, 2011

You can use (Win) Alt+F1,Alt+2 together to open this help-(Help for LaTeX2e).

Make sure your TeXWorks document is saved first.

Select some text first, a full command, or partial text that you want to search for help on.
(Double clicking a command name will select it for you.)
(Some features not available until possibly Tw ver 0.4) Keep dialogue open for as long as you need it, and work between it and the Tw Editor.
Type into the box at bottom left to filter links,
       > clear the box to show all available commands,
       > try typing commands with and without their \ to look at simillar thiings,
       > type just \ to see all commands available for help.
(Not available until possibly Tw ver 0.4)Use get Tw Selection button to get a fresh prompt from selected text in the Tw Editor. This will show a few leading letters in the prompt box, to make a list of similar links appear, and show information for the exact match to your selected Tw text, if it exists.
(Not available until possibly Tw ver 0.4) You can drag and drop Selected text form here into the TeXWorks (Tw) Editor - as at Tw ver 0.3 rev 649.
The Navigation buttons ( < Back and Forward > ) only work for local file system links (this help - not on internet) clicked in this main window.
To insert material in Tw Editor, Select Text in this main Window, then use
paste Selection Into Tw (this can be used repeatedly for different selections before closing the dialogue), or for just one selection use the OK button. Make space in Tw first, and keep an eye on already selected text there as it would be overwritten. OK
will close the dialogue -- as well as copy/pasting anything already selected, or already copied to the clipboard inside the dialogue (see 9. below).
(Use the Cancel button to close the help otherwise.)
You can use the right mouse click (Win) or OS equivalent to Copy whole chunks of selected text. Any text you already had on the clipboard before using this dialogue should still be on the clipboard available for use when you close the dialogue.
Use the other buttons to show other menus and directories for the help information.
Add any other help files to Help_latex2e/html/, using a subset of CSS 2.1, but no Scripting. see http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/richtext-html-subset.html.
Add links for those files to Help_latex2e/user/Tw_User_Help_Index.html
in the form of <li><a href="blahBlah.html'>My New Info</a></li>
These will show when User Commands is clicked. Currenlty that file includes one example link.

This help system is being developed for the TeXWorks Editor:--
http://tug.org/texworks/ "There is a mailing list available for discussion of any topics related to the TeXworks project. You can search the list archives online."

Jonathan Kew and Stefan Loefer
(http://code.google.com/p/texworks/)

see also TeXworks page by Alain Delmotte

The help information is based on work being carried out by Karl Berry
as described below.

The help interface is being developed by Paul Norman, ver 0.5. paul.a.norman@gmail.com

With gratefully acknowledged help from Jonathan Kew and Stefan Loefer

The header of each help file is produced below.

(Karl Berry has already stated that there is work needed on the informaton contained, and volunteers are welcome)

This document is an unofficial reference manual for LaTeX, a
document preparation system, version as of September 2009.

This was originally translated from `LATEX.HLP' v1.0a in the VMS
Help Library. The pre-translation version was written by
George.D. Greenwade of Sam Houston State University. The
LaTeX.2.09 version was written by Stephen Gilmore. The
LaTeX2e version was adapted from this by Torsten Martinsen. Karl
Berry made further updates and additions, and gratefully acknowledges
using `Hypertext Help with LaTeX', by Sheldon Green, and the
`LaTeX Command Summary' (for LaTeX 2.09) by L..Botway
and C..Biemesderfer (published by the TeX Users Group as
`TeXniques' number 10), as reference material (text was not
directly copied).

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions.