[texworks] How I can customize texworks ?

[Malte Weber]

Hello,
it's embarrassing but was in the wrong directory, i.e. I was doing changes for the wrong user.Thanks a lot, with the customized auto completion the work is much easier now.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards 


Malte S. Weber

> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:17:49 +0100
> From: esperanto at swing.be
> To: texworks at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [texworks] How I can customize texworks ?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Le 5/02/2014 12:12, Malte Weber a écrit :
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have the same problem. First i changed an existing command
> > and nothing happened. Then I created a new auto completion
> > command(acc) which was not accepted by TeXWorks. I tried
> > turning TW on and off, even restarting the computer. Also I
> > tried creating a new file --> tw-supplement.txt in order to
> > have a list with just my auto complete functions. Then i
> > tried adding my acc to the existing tw-latex.txt. The
> > command i tried was --> dde:=\[ #INS# \]
> > I addapted it from the existing command --> dd:=\( #INS# \)
> >
> > The main question is the same as for Yves Soulet, is it an
> > version issue, I run MikTex 2.9 under Win7 with the build in
> > TeXWorks. Is there a syntax issue?
> > Secondary question on my end is whether or not one can
> > overload an aac, i.e. dd gives the option of either (),[] or
> > {} etc.
> >
> > Help will be greatly appreciated, since it will help to make
> > my Thesis go digital much faster.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Malte
> 
> If I understand well you did try by adding dde:=\[ #INS# \] 
> in tw-latex.txt from the completion folder of the resources 
> folder of TeXworks.
> OK?
> 
> If so, if you enter dde you get \[ #INS# \] with the cursor 
> in place of #INS# and if you enter dd you get \( #INS# \), 
> but also after a second [Tab] \( #INS# \) again after [Tab] 
> [ #INS# \], because TeXworks looks for the codes commencing 
> by dd and so finds dd and after that \dd and dde.
> 
> But if neither your dde and acc works, you should check if 
> you do no have 2 Resources folders and modify the *not* used 
> one.
> You are using mikTeX and mikTeX organizes the resource 
> folders for the included programs.
> If one uses a version of TeXworks installed by the user, the 
> Resources folder is C:\Users\<yourname>\TeXworks
> (for Windows 7, using TeXLive 2013, but this was the case 
> way back some years, I am not using the internal TeXworks of 
> TeXLive, if I do, TeXLive creates a Resources folder 
> C:\texlive\2013\tlpkg\texworks)
> 
> But mikTeX could have one in the miktex folder of program files.
> 
> For overloading you could create beside dd, dda, ddb, ddc, ddd.
> Pay attention, not to use an existing keyword!
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Alain
> 
> 
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