gmane.editors.winedt

Re: smart-wrapping LaTeX comments (& great job on version 7.0!)

Jose Koiller — 2012-05-22T21:29:48

Dear Dr. Simonic,

Thank you very much for taking an interest in my post (and my
request), and for taking the time to reply. I can imagine that the
WinEdt-related correspondence may get overwhelming...


Yes, my previous post and this comment in particular were heavily
influenced by my own taste. I understand that accommodating the tastes
of all users must be quite a challenge indeed... (So my compliments
again on your excellent work.) To me personally, the "special wrapping
mode for comments" feature would fall in the "dream-come-true"
category, as you put it...

All the best,

Jose'

EXTENDED, EXITEMS...in tree.ini

David Huffer — 2012-05-22T21:20:15

I use the tree to show acronym definitions in included files as well as show points within a paper/project where I've used acronyms.  I would like to list defined acronyms and show the <acronym> as well as the <full name> in the tree.  So, for instance, if I have 

    \acro{HL}[$\hat{c}$]{Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistic}

defined in my \input'd acronym file, in my tree I would like the caption to be

    HL: Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistic 

I've been satisfied for years with simply the <acronym>, but with an ever-increasing list of acronyms the additional context would be helpful.

It looks like I might be able to use the new EXTENDED properties to handle this.  Does anyone have any advice on using this?  Parsing %!? is easy enough with the second tag in "\(0\{*\}\)< at >{\[*\]}\(1\{*\}\)".  Im just not clear on where to go from here.      

Thanks!

--
 David

Re: BibTEX (bibMacros 3.0) v/s JabRef

Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan — 2012-05-22T20:31:59

Thanks for this information Per. I always re-type manually the key in 
JabRef anyhow to reflect the document to which the reference will go. 
But I believe that such things can be automated too but manual typing 
doesn't take time.

I do not use the web documents retrieval facilities that JabRef offers 
also. I like to have fewer documents in a database, their contents of 
which I might still remember after some time.

BR
YC


On 5/22/2012 8:05 PM, Per Ting wrote:

Re: BibTEX (bibMacros 3.0) v/s JabRef

Per Ting — 2012-05-22T19:05:40

For one thing, there is more flexibility in generating keys in
BibMacros. Of course JabRef has its own advantages (IEEExplore search,
etc.).

Per

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan
<yogeshwarsing.calleecharan< at >ltu.se> wrote:

Re: smart-wrapping LaTeX comments (& great job on version 7.0!)

WinEdt Team — 2012-05-22T17:53:21

Jose,

I am reading pretty much all posts and I answer when my answer is
warranted and when I get some time to think about it.
Unfortunately, many more users write to me privately and I am a few
weeks behind with correspondence.

I realized immediately after reading your post that this is a
feature request for a special wrapping mode for comments. Some
users would find it a feature (especially dtx code writers). Others
may want to disable it (and many more would not care one way or
another:-)

It is a reasonable request and easy enough to implement. It will
need a few extra options regarding indenting, a string after a
comment (eg. a space) etc... Then it has to be implemented and then
it has to be documented. Maybe for 7.1...


There is no such thing as "perfect LaTeX editor". Good enough for
some users is all I am aiming for (and even this is proving to be a
challenge). Once you reach certain number of users new features are
often perceived as bugs or annoyances by some users,
dream-come-true by some other

BibTEX (bibMacros 3.0) v/s JabRef

Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan — 2012-05-22T16:07:21

Hi,
     I have been using JabRef for a long time for handling my 
bibliography and it can push the citations to WinEdt very easily. I am 
curious to know whether the macro package BibTEX (bibMacros 3.0) on 
WinEdt.org offers any advantages over JabRef. If yes, what are they?

I am not starting here a post about which is better to use but if a user 
has been using both then I would be interested to learn about his/her 
user experiences.


Thanks.

BR
YC

Re: Document Settings for TeX: Trim Spaces (EOLN), etc.

Daren B.H. Cline — 2012-05-22T12:48:56

That did it, Karl!  Thanks.
I looked forever in the WinEdt manual for such hints but could find no 
more than descriptions of the commands.  I'm used to WinEdt 5 and 
finding/changing options is substantially different in version 7.  
Different menu placement for some things and others, like what I was 
trying to change here, apparently are no longer in the default menus at 
all except for changing one file at a time.

Again, I appreciate it - now I can get to work again.
Daren


On 5/22/2012 4:55 AM, Karl Koeller wrote:

Re: Document Settings for TeX: Trim Spaces (EOLN), etc.

Karl Koeller — 2012-05-22T09:55:32

2012/5/21 Daren B.H. Cline <dcline< at >stat.tamu.edu>



Try the command 'Rebuild All' in Options -> Maintenance menu and then tell
me what you get working.

Karl

Document Settings for TeX: Trim Spaces (EOLN), etc.

Daren B.H. Cline — 2012-05-21T16:26:46

running WinEdt 7 Build 20120423 (newly installed) on a windows 7 system

I'm having difficulty getting SOME of my changes to actually work!  
Changes made through the Options-Preferences dialog seem to be okay, but 
I also want to change some of the editor mode defaults and the only way 
I can see to (try to) do that is with the Options Interface.  I selected 
Editor-Defaults and made the following changes to my defaults.ini file:

TRIM_SPACES=0
   MODE_FILTER="ASCII;TeX;ANSI"
TRIM_LINES=0
   MODE_FILTER="ASCII;TeX;ANSI"
LINE_WRAPPING=0
   MODE_FILTER=""
KEEP_ALL_SPACES=0
   MODE_FILTER="ASCII;TeX;ANSI"

But, after restarting WinEdt, whenever I open a new or old TeX file the 
Document Settings shows each of the above properties to be enabled 
rather than disabled.  I've tried making the changes while running 
WinEdt as Administrator, restarting the computer, etc.  Nothing seems to 
matter.


Similarly, I changed the soft wrapping for TeX in the 
Options-Preferences-Wrapping page and my userprefences.ini show

Re: ANN: bibMacros & Todo for WinEdt 7

Robert — 2012-05-21T03:52:15

Hm, I wouldn't really know what to say about the difference between a 
popup menu and a main menu except that the one is a popup and the other 
a main menu...


Really? This works for me. The macro actually searches in the file 
"<main file>.aux" for the string \bibdata{*}. Maybe your aux file wasn't 
up to date, or the main file wasn't set?


Thanks, fixed.


Fixed.


I agree that biblatex is the future but I'm not sure whether it's 
already the present. Note that you can easily set the default style in 
bibMacros.cfg.


I'm afraid I didn't understand this one. (It seems you forgot the example.)

...

On 18.05.12 15:25, Loretan, Mico wrote:

Thanks, fixed. (The "report" inconsistency has been inherited from 
WinEdt 5.2, at least...)


A new version integrating the above mentioned fixes is available from 
winedt.org. You can just install the new version on top of the old one.

Best regards,

Re: Re: Aligning the contents of tabular

Per Ting — 2012-05-20T06:09:35

So am I.

Thanks

Per


On 5/19/2012 11:29 AM, Moshe Elitzur wrote:

Re: Re: Aligning the contents of tabular

Moshe Elitzur — 2012-05-19T15:29:06

I am interested. Please send the plugin.

Thanks,
Moshe Elitzur

RE: ANN: bibMacros & Todo for WinEdt 7

Stefan Pinnow — 2012-05-19T09:15:13

Hello Robert,



I gave the new bibMacros package a try in WinEdt 7 and noticed the following
issues after a short test:

1. installation
Perhaps there should be noted in the manual that one has to decide during
installation that the macro can be installed as "Main Menu" or as "Popup
Menu" and briefly explain the differences between them.

2. \cite
When calling the active string for \cite it does bring an error message,
when the \bibliography command is not found in the main document. I normally
have everything related to biblatex in a biblatex.tex file which I load via
\input{biblatex} in the preamble.

3. bib_typeCase
The bib_typeCase doesn't seem to work because it doesn't change anything
when I run "clean entry", regardless of the values "U", "L" or "I".

4. uninstalling
When running the _Uninstall.edt I receive the warning
File "C:\Users\...\ConfigEx\PopupMenus.ini" not found.
While installing I have chosen the "Main Menu" option button. Is that
warning coming because I have chosen the other option but

Re: Re: Aligning the contents of tabular

Karl Koeller — 2012-05-19T07:59:37

2012/5/18 Harish Kumar Holla <harishkumarholla< at >pec.edu>


Harish,

I adjusted TeXtab plugin to work with WinEdt.

If you are interested, contact me privately.

Karl

Re: Re: Alignment of braces.

Harish Kumar Holla — 2012-05-18T22:48:56

Dear David
Thank you for your response. May be I want some thing like that exactly.
Can you please send your code to me? It will be very nice of you.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:37 PM, David <david.huffer< at >csosa.gov> wrote:

Re: smart-wrapping LaTeX comments (& great job on version 7.0!)

Jose Koiller — 2012-05-18T19:59:45

Hello Karl et al,

Thank you very much for your response (and for taking the time to read
my rather long post...).


Yes, and this is in fact what I've been doing... :^)

However, if I later wish to edit those comment lines, they won't be
automatically (hard) wrapped. I have to:

1) select those comment lines,
2) remove the %'s (ctrl+shift+alt+left),
3) make the edits (without the %'s, WinEdt's smart wrap kicks in, as you said),
4) select the lines again,
5) re-insert the %'s (ctrl+shift+alt+right).

Steps 1 and 4 seem to bother me the most...  It would be *super nice*
if WinEdt could do this automatically. (I'm probably nitpicking, but
to me, this would make WinEdt absolutely *perfect*! )

What I'm really getting at is perhaps a feature request. 'Smart
wrapping for comment sections':

WinEdt would recognize lines beginning with % (better yet, lines whose
first non-space characters are %) and apply its smart wrap algorithm
in "block mode", so to speak: only to the portion that follows the
%'s. I understand t

Re: smart-wrapping LaTeX comments (& great job on version 7.0!)

Karl Koeller — 2012-05-18T18:48:41

Il 18/05/2012 20.16, Jose Koiller ha scritto:

I think the fastest way is:

1) Write the lines you want to be commented as they were not comments 
(without % comment).
2) Once you've finished, select these lines and press ctrl+shift+alt+right.

Could this be an acceptable solution?

Karl

smart-wrapping LaTeX comments (& great job on version 7.0!)

Jose Koiller — 2012-05-18T18:16:17

Dear All  (especially Dr. Alex Simonic --- I'm hoping you read these
posts occasionally...),

I've been a happy WinEdt registered user since version 5.3 (or .4?),
and I'm really happy with the new 7.0 version. This is the first time
I'm submitting a question to this list ("long time listener, first
time caller...").

I've been fiddling with different wrapping settings for a couple of
days, checking the help pages and old forum posts, but can't figure
this out.

I much prefer using smart (hard) wrapping over soft-wrapping when
writing LaTeX documents. However, I can't find a way to get comment
(%) lines to be wrapped (except in soft mode, using the
"WRAP_SOFT_COMMENTS=1" option). Sometimes I write long comments ---
notes to myself, for instance --- and it bugs me a bit to be forced to
scroll around horizontally to read the whole note later on.

Is there any way to achieve either one of the following behaviors in WinEdt?
----------------------------------------------
(A) (The ideal to me...)

Smart wrapping fo

Re: The I Button in WinEdt

Karl Koeller — 2012-05-18T17:34:57

Il 18/05/2012 17.00, J Anderson ha scritto:

In regards of (a).

If you don't want to make any changes to the defaults, you can insert 
\textit from the TeX Symbols GUI -> Typeface -> Italic.

I think this is the simpler way in all WinEdt versions.

Karl

RE: The I Button in WinEdt

David Huffer — 2012-05-18T17:10:43

   > ...I     have     two     (probably    dumb)
   > questions...(a) The I  (italics)  button  of
   > WinEdt gives \emph{...} by default. Is there
   > an easy way to change  it  to  \textit{...}?
   > I'm using both WinEdt 5.5 and WinEdt 6....

Yes.  But maybe instead of replace it you might want to just add \textit to the toolbar.  

Edit mainmenu.ini to include

    ITEM="textit"
      CAPTION="text&it"
      IMAGE="Italic"
      MACRO=:InsLabel("\textit","{","}");
      REQ_DOCUMENT=1

in the Font> submenu of the Insert menu.    

Then add MENU="textit" to toolbar.ini.  Like this:

  BUTTON="Emphasize_(Italic)"
    TYPE=6
    MENU="Emphasize_(Italic)"
    MENU="Bold"
    MENU="textit"
    MENU="Teletype"
    MENU="-"
    MENU="Color_(RGB)"

HTH
--
 David

Re: The I Button in WinEdt

Margaret Schroeder — 2012-05-18T16:16:28

(a) You can write a new command for \textit and make a button for it. Then
you have the option of choosing either the \emph or the \textit button
according to your needs.

Margaret S.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, J Anderson <menoosb< at >gmail.com> wrote: