Tw Help Latex2e ver 0.55, February 1st, 2011
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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> ) only work for local file system links (this
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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).
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button to close the help otherwise.)
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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.
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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).
Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 Karl Berry.
Copyright (C) 1988, 1994, 2007 Stephen Gilmore.
Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996 Torsten Martinsen.
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this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved
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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.