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The Kile Handbook

Jonathan Pechta

Federico Zenith

developer: Jeroen Wijnhout
Revision 1.7 (2005-01-18)

Copyright © 2003 Jonathan Pechta

Copyright © 2003, 2005 Federico Zenith

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
Intended Audience
2. Introduction
Basic facts
About Kile
What is LATEX
How do you pronounce it? Why that strange typesetting?
LATEX 101
Kile's Main Features
QuickStart Wizard
Predefined Templates
Syntax Highlighting
Auto-Completion of Environments
Jump to Structure Element
Inverse Search
Forward Search
The Toolbar: a Reference Guide to Features
3. Quickstart
Writing a LATEX Document with Kile for Beginners
Environments
Using Kile
DVI Files
Viewing a DVI
Printing a DVI
Manually Printing a DVI from a console
Exporting a DVI
Forward and Inverse searches between Kile and KDVI
Forward Search
Inverse Search
Resolving Errors
4. Starting a New Document
Templates
Create a New Template
Configuring Automatic Substitutions
Create a Template from the Wizard
Creating a Template from any File
Removing a Template
5. Editing LATEX Documents
The LATEX Reference
Cursor Movements
Bracket Completion and Matching
Highlighting
Automatic Environment Completion
Array Wizardry
6. Special Tags in LATEX
Using the LATEX Tag Library
Using Bibitems
User-Defined Tags
Placeholders in User-Defined Tags
7. Using the Build Tools
Compiling, converting and viewing
BibTEX
MakeIndex
MetaPost
PDFLATEX
LATEX2HTML
Passing Command-Line Parameters
Graphic File Formats
Master Document
Error Handling
Using the Watch File Mode
8. Navigating the LATEX Source
Using the Structure View
Updating the Structure View
Bookmarks
9. Projects
Working with Projects
Creating a Project
Using the File and Project View
Adding and Removing Files
Changing your Project's Options
Archiving your Project
Extensions for Non-Source Files
Closing a Project
10. Setting the Document's Encoding
The ucs Package
Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) Support
CJK Troubleshooting
How do I input CJK in Unicode?
11. Credits and License
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