New : Begin a new document.
Open : Open a new document.
Close : Close your document.
Define document as master : This is used when working with multiple files. Having a master document will let you include other .tex files in your document.
Quickbuild : Compiles your LaTeX source code and displays results. automatically, unless you have code errors.
Watch file mode : This mode will "watch" the DVI file for changes and automatically update this file without having to re-launch KDVI
View logfile : view the .log file, so you can view errors.
Previous error : jumps backward through .log file and highlights errors in source.
Next error : jumps forward through .log file and highlights errors in source.
Stop : stops current function.
LaTeX : runs LaTeX on the active document.
View DVI : launches DVI viewe.r
DVI to PS : converts DVI file to a postscript (PS).
View PS : launches postscript (PS) viewer.
PDFLaTeX : creates PDF from LaTeX source, if you have a LaTeX header.
View PDF : views PDF.
DVI to PDF : converts DVI to a PDF.
PS to PDF : converts a PS to a PDF.
LaTeX to HTML : creates HTML code from LaTeX source.
View HTML : views HTML created.
KDVI forward Search : jump to page that corresponds to the current line in the editor.
If you look at the upper right hand end of the toolbar, you will notice three large drop- down boxes. The drop-down boxes were designed for the user to be able to quickly add insert features into their document. The first drop-down box (insert figure of part drop- down box) is used for quickly dividing your document by parts, chapter, sections etc. The available commands to add segments to your LaTeX source code are:
Part : highest level of sectioning for a document.
Chapter : starts a new chapter.
Section : create a new section.
Subsection : create a new subsection.
Subsubsection : a secondary section coming between section and paragraph.
Paragraph : create a new paragraph.
Subparagraph : create a new subparagraph.
The drop-down box entitled label is used to insert items to your document such as indexes, footnotes, references. Available commands to add items to your LaTeX source code are:
Label : command that produces a label for a level.
Index : creates an entry for the index with a file suffix .idx.
Footnote : creates a footnote in your document.
Reference : used to refer to a predefined label, which the user chooses from a drop down list.
Page reference : creates a page number in your document that corresponds to a label.
Cite : create a citation in your document from a list of bibitems.
When using cite, the user is presented with a drop-down list of bibitems, but if the user is using BibTeX this won't work. Users will have to use gBib or pyBliographer.
The last drop-down box labeled tiny is used to set the size of your text. The user has the option of setting the size of the text, footnotes etc. Available commands to add a text size to your LaTeX source code are:
Tiny : smallest
Scriptsize : very small
Footnotesize : smaller
Small : small
Normalsize : normal
Large : large
Large : larger
LARGE : even larger
huge : still larger
Huge : largest