The Kile Handbook

The Kile Handbook

Jonathan Pechta <jrpechta@yahoo.com>

: Jeroen Wijnhout


Revision 1.6

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Kile is a LaTeX source editor, TeX shell and GnuPlot frontend.


Table of Contents

1. Preface
Requirements
About this document - Important
Intended audience
What's new in Kile?
License Agreement
2. Introduction
About Kile
What is LaTeX
LaTeX basics
Kile's main features
Document wizard
Predefined templates
Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion of environments
Jump to sections
Inverse search
Forward search
The Toolbar : a reference guide to features
3. Quickstart
Writing a document with Kile for beginners
Environments
Using Kile
DVI file
Viewing a DVI
Printing a DVI
Manually print a DVI
Exporting a DVI
Forward search
Inverse search
DVI preferences and settings
Resolving errors
4. Starting a new document
5. Templates
Create a new template
Configuring automatic substitutions
Create a template from the wizard
Creating a template from any file
Removing a template
6. Editing LaTeX documents
Cursor movement
Bracket completion and bracket matching
Highlighting
Automatic environment completion
7. Using the LaTeX tag library
Using bibitems
User defined tags
Unique characters in User defined tags
8. Using the build tools
Compile LaTex, PDFLaTeX
Passing command-line parameters
Master document
Advanced error handling
Viewing your document
Using Watch File
Converting your document
Standard conversions (dvips, pspdf, dvipdf, etc.)
9. Navigating the LaTeX source
Using structure view
Click on labels, sections
Double click on input, include
Update structure
Bookmarks
10. Working with projects
Creating a project
Using the Files and Project view
Adding and removing files
Changing your project options
Archiving your project
Extensions for non-source files
Closing a project
11. Preparing a document in an alternate language
12. Credits and License
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