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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 work more easily with other .tex files included in your document.
Quickbuild: compiles your LATEX source code and displays the results automatically, unless you have code errors.
Watch file mode: this mode will "watch" the DVI file for changes, and will not launch a new session of KDVI after Quickbuild.
View logfile: views the .log file, so you can spot errors.
Previous error: jumps backward through the .log file and highlights errors in source.
Next error: jumps forward through .log file and highlights errors in source.
Stop: halts current function.
LaTeX: runs LATEX on the active document.
View DVI: launches DVI viewer.
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 a 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 Edit toolbar, you will notice three large drop-down menus. The drop-down menus were designed for you to be able to quickly add certain common features into your document. The first drop-down box is used for quickly dividing your document by parts, chapter, sections and so on; 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 between subsection and paragraph.
paragraph: create a new paragraph.
subparagraph: create a new subparagraph.
The drop-down box named label is used to insert items to your document such as indexes, footnotes, and references; the available commands are:
label: a command that produces a label for a chapter, a figure or another element.
index: creates an entry for the index.
footnote: creates a footnote in your document.
ref: used to refer to a predefined label, which you can choose from a drop-down list.
pageref: just like ref, but refers to a page instead of a structure element.
cite: create a reference with data from a bibliography.
When using cite, you are presented with a drop-down list of bibitems, but if you are using BibTEX this won't work; you will need a separate .bib file. You can then use gBib or pyBliographer, or do it by hand.
The last drop-down box labeled tiny is used to set the size of the text. You can set the size of the main text, of footnotes, and so on. The available commands are:
tiny: smallest.
scriptsize: very small.
footnotesize: smaller.
small: small.
normalsize: normal.
large: large.
Large: larger.
LARGE: even larger.
huge: still larger.
Huge: largest.
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