[texworks] Some remarks

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Alain Delmotte wrote:

>
>
> Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, it would be good to have all shortcuts duplicated without "\"
>>>
>>> I'd be interested to hear what others think about this. The  
>>> current list basically comes from what's distributed with TeXShop.  
>>> I've noticed that some abbreviations are provided without \, but  
>>> others aren't; I'm not a heavy user of these so I don't feel  
>>> qualified to say what's most useful.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> There are two types of completions; one that is based on the  
>> command itself and a second that is an abbreviation. Also, when the  
>> completion code tries to find a completion it takes all the  
>> characters between the point (the cursor) and a terminator character
> Yes if  you expand at the end of the input; as I tend to insert the  
> formatting commands after inputting the text "some tbcharacters"  
> with the cursor after the b will not expand to \textbf{}. I think it  
> is normal, that's why I'd like, at least for the most used commands,  
> shortcuts for formatting on selections.

Howdy,

That should be a leading bf to get textbf{}. However, you are correct,  
about not getting the expansion. Obviously the implementation is a bit  
different between TeXshop (which is Mac only) and TeXWorks; if I have  
bfacdeg with the cursor just after the bf and I expand, in TeXShop I  
get \textbf{}acdeg with the cursor between the braces but no expansion  
in TeXWorks.

>
>> (space, tab, linefeed(newline), period, comma, semicolon, colon,  
>> {, }, (, ) or \ (actually the TeX Command Character which can vary  
>> in different implementations). The { and \ also become part of the  
>> expansion --- at least that is what it is in TeXShop and I believe  
>> TeXWorks) as it searches to the left. If the character before the  
>> text to be completed is NOT one of those you should use a \; e.g.,  
>> `tt will NOT expand to `\texttt{} with the cursor between the  
>> braces but `\tt will expand correctly.
> On my system it does, but I don't know if I didn't change tw- 
> latex.txt yet.
>>
>> By the way, the `it' abbreviation doesn't expand to \textit{} at  
>> all on my system. That is because one should mostly use \emph{}  
>> (get that with the `em' abbreviation). You can add `it' to the tw- 
>> latex.txt file if you
> But in tw-latex.txt there is:
> it:=\item#RET##INS#
> ito:=\item[#INS#]#RET#
> ....
> it:=\textit{#INS#}
> itd:=\itshape
> so it should, it is doing for the 3 others!!!

Hmmm... Open the tw-latex.txt file as UTF-8 (the bullet characters  
will look like bullet characters--if they don't please DON'T change or  
save the file since the encoding is wrong). Then change the first `it'  
abbreviation it `item',

item:=\item#RET##INS#

and then the textit will show up when you type in `it' and press the  
Tab key three times. Variations with options add an `o' and starred  
variations )e.g., \section*{}) add `s'.

>
>>
>> Also, to keep things simple, there are duplicates but, hopefully,  
>> they are set up so that the most used ones are chosen first. If  
>> not, you can change the order in the tw-latex.txt file.
> Oh! I didn't know that the order was important; it opens  
> possibilities for me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alain
>>


The tw-latex.txt file is searched from top to bottom, so order is  
important.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)