gmane.editors.winedt

equal sign in syntex-switch is lost

Ulrike Fischer — 2013-05-17T13:33:48

I'm calling context through a bat-file (which sets some environment
variables). The context command in this bat file is:

context.exe  %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

I now wanted to force all executables to create an unzipped
synctex-file as sumatra seems not to be able to handle .gz-files. 

But it didn't work for context. And the console output shows that
the reason is that the equal sign is missing in the command line
call:

G:\Z-Test>context.exe  --synctex -1 "test-utf8.tex"

What can I do to get it back?

I can naturally use 

context.exe  %1=%2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

as command line. But I do find this a bit fishy as it would break if
I disable synctex.

WinEdt 8 folding comments

Gilbert Ritschard — 2013-05-16T14:39:40

Hi All,

I just started to experiment the great new folding feature provided by WinEdt 8.

Since I often have large portions of commented text in my files, I would be interested to fold such commented out portions. I have not been able to implement it so far and would therefore appreciate any hint.

I would like to fold starting 

- either from a line whose first non space or tab character is a "%", 
- or from the line after a "%" when the "%" is preceded by other non space or tab characters (except indeed "\%"),

and fold until the line which precedes 

- the first line whose first non space or tab character is NOT "%"

Example: I would like to fold from line 2 to 5 in the example below:

1. this is regular text % and this is comment
2. % comment continuation
3.
4. % more comment
5.
6.   Again regular text

Thanks for your help.
Gilbert

NEW - WinEdt 8 contribution: VerbatimPlus

Karl Koeller — 2013-05-14T19:09:37

Dear WinEdt-ers,


Users of latex packages "listings", "moreverb", "verbatim" and 
"fancyvrb" can take advantage of this new contribution.

Visit http://www.winedt.org/Config/menus/VerbatimPlus.php for more info 
and download.


Regards,

Karl

feature in winedt: label search

Joao Seixas (CERN — 2013-05-14T08:30:41

Dear Winedt developers,

I always used winedt to write papers and books since I installed it. One 
thing I always noticed is that the search window that shows up when 
using, for instance, \ref does not allow a search using any word, as far 
as I could judge. This is not important for articles or reports because 
they are in general not so big. But for a book with dozens of sections 
and subsections and hundreds of equations this is not very convenient. I 
believe that it is a minor improvement that is not so difficult to 
implement. Can you put it in your todo list (or tell me whether I 
misused the search window)?

Best regards,
J. Seixas

Problem with string variables / perhaps a bug

Ulrike Fischer — 2013-05-13T14:15:39

I managed to let this macro fail:

Assign("Local", "test");
Prompt('Local=%$("Local")');

Everytime I did run it (in a .edt file on its own) the second line
is marked red and I got a warning dialog 

   Error parsing a string parameter   ...
   Prompt('Local=%$("Local")'^^^);

After some tests I found out that this line in my real edt is the
source of the problem:

IfFileExists("%!3",|Open("%!3")|,"Prompt('%$(|kpsefilename|)');");

For a reason that I don't understand a ; is needed inside the Prompt
command and so if the file doesn't exist and the false-clause is
chosen I get an error message about this missing ";".

And from then on *every* "Prompt" with a string variable lead to the
error parsing warning until I closed and reopened winedt.

Using Ctrl+Mouse Wheel to zoom in/zoom out

Yih-Dar Shieh — 2013-05-12T11:51:57

Dear WinEdt developers/users:

Is there anyway (even by creating my own macro) to use Ctrl+Mouse Wheel to
zoom in/zoom out, just like in Firefox, Notepad++ or many PDF readers? It
is important for me.

Best,
Yih-Dar SHIEH

Problem with Smartquote2

Matthias C. Schmidt — 2013-05-11T18:31:57

Hello,

I have the following problem with Smartquote2 under Winedt:

For years I used WinEdt and  Smartquote(2) from R.Schlicht in it.
Everytime it
works, but one of the last Winedt updates make a change: Smartquote2
works, but
only with the >> and << (ASCII-Characters), not with the direct input of
» and «, what is possible to adjust in smartquote2.edt. Now there only
comes � � . I can insert the right signs with the chracter map, what
means that the font I'm using contains the characters - but I wonder why
it do not work like the last years ...

Could anyone help?

Matthias

Feature request (?)

Per Ting — 2013-05-11T14:58:48

Another feature request

Alex Degtyarev — 2013-05-07T08:11:42

I also have a feature request for the new release, although this may require
a customization of the tab controls (unless M$ has already done this for
their IE). I understand that WinEdt has a nice built-in project management
feature. However, I cannot get rid of the (bad?) habit of working on several
projects simultaneously, so I always end up with a window crowded with lots
of tabs, related to different projects. So, it would be nice if I could
group these tabs within one project, the way IE does when opening new
windows from within old ones. This grouping could be indicated by colors
(user/automatically assigned, again like in IE) + some related
functionality, like closing a whole group, group change events (e.g.,
reassigning the main file and working directory depending on the group),
automatic assignment to the current group of a file opened by a macro (say,
by a double click on a keyword; this should probably be implemented in the
macro language and then, in the particular macros), etc. In other word, a

Feature request---showing installed WinEdt packages

Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan — 2013-05-06T16:18:25

Hello,
         I was thinking that with the imminent release of v8, perhaps it would be helpful if WinEdt can show via a menu, say Help > "User installed packages" any user added packages and their version numbers. This will help a user to immediately know what extra packages from winedt.org he/she has installed and also their version numbers. It is good to have such information at hand for example when upgrading to a new WinEdt version.

By packages I mean the ones such as acronym, figures&tables, metapreview etc (karl koeller supplied a more comprehensive and popular packages list in his email on May 02).

Then perhaps later on more features could be added to this "User installed packages" menu for example their documentation files and a way to provide desinstallation and upgrading to newer package versions tools.

Thank you.


Cheers
YC

Some important news...

Karl Koeller — 2013-05-02T16:18:01

Dear WinEdt-ers,

as you probably know, WinEdt 8 is about to be released...

In WinEdt 8 you will have the chance to import your old WinEdt 7
settings (unless you've made very particular changes to your
configuration files!), INCLUDING the packages you have installed.

If you're using one of the following packages in WinEdt 7

  - Acronym
  - ANSI2UTF8
  - arara
  - Asymptote
  - Figures&Tables
  - LaTeXify
  - MetaPreview
  - nomencl (now substituted by Nomenclature)
  - nomentbl (now substituted by Nomenclature)
  - YandY TeX
  - FasTeX
  - R-Sweave
  - Stata-support

and you are planning to migrate to WinEdt 8, please continue
reading...

_____________________________________________________________________


I talk now on behalf of all the maintainers of the above packages.

We have prepared upgrades for all our contributions, which are
ready to be imported in WinEdt 8. So, if you don't want to have
problems with importing them, I suggest you to install (in WinEdt
7) these latest versions.

Note that the

E-Books from MikTex/WinEdt - How to best ...

Volker Gottwald — 2013-05-01T06:52:04

Hi all out there,

 

Is there anyone that has a working concept of how to best produce an ebook
from a tex file open in WinEdt?

 

I am reading about this this since months, have experimented a lot, but did
not find a workable, good solution that did not need a lot of reworking.

I tested all the Latex to html converters; converted Latex to Word, than to
html, all no good. Too much reworking.

 

My book has no math formulas, just text and a lot of photos with captions,
410 pages.

 

The best I could come up with is to set the geometry to fit the page size of
a Kindl and produce a pdf-file. However, this is not a real ebook. It's a
pdf file you can read on an ebook reader.

 

What I'm looking for is a button in WinEdt that says "Compile this file to
ebook" and then select the ebook format. Epub or mobi would do it for now. 

If I knew how to write this software, I would do it. 

 

Is there anyone out in the world wide web that is willing to share a good
workflow for creating ebooks or even willing to wr

Problem with BibMacro

Robert B. Gozzoli — 2013-05-01T05:43:16

Dear List,
I am sorry, but I am not able to use BibMacros, both with WinEDT 7 and 8,
in particular "Extract from AUX". In both cases, it gives me the same error
message. "You did not specify any \bibliography file in your TEX file. I
cannot continue:"

There is \bibliography in the main text file however, and Biblatex (Biber)
works fine.
I believe that it is something simple I am not able to make it work, but I
have not found a solution in the manual.

I also know that this email does not give enough elements for helping me,
so if you can tell the information you need I will be very glad to post it.

Thanks for the moment.

Roberto Gozzoli

cannot run psv.exe

houda araj — 2013-04-27T20:35:00

I uninstall texlive from my windows but I run winedt with Miketex I get this message :
cannot run c:\texlive\2011\bin\win32\psv.exe. How to make winedt open ADOBE Reader. 
Thanks

ANN: WinEdt 8 beta is now available...

WinEdt Team — 2013-04-22T18:13:51

Hello all!

WinEdt 8 with newly added code folding functionality is almost
ready and it will be officially released within a month. Help has
been updated accordingly. Due to the internal code optimization the
overall performance of WinEdt has been improved (especially
noticeable in large documents with sophisticated highlighting
schemes like TeX or HTML).

This is an opportunity for those of you who care for "code
folding" to get hold of the beta version and check it out. At this
stage I would prefer users that already have WinEdt 7 installed
and are willing to do some testing, consult the documentation, and
provide some constructive feedback...

If you are one of them let me know (alex "at" winedt.com) and I
will send you a link to 32-bit and 64-bit downloadable version of
WinEdt 8.0 (< 10MB download).

Best regards,

alex

ps. Here is roughly what you should know about the new version:

WinEdt 8 is a Unicode (UTF-8) text editor built on WinEdt 7 sources
and compiled with Delphi XE3.

UPGRADING ISSUES:
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Comment in Tex Document

Debjit Pal — 2013-04-18T17:43:57

Hi,

I am using : WinEdt Build: 20130125  (v. 7.1) - 64-bit

I tried to apply the "Ctrl+D" combination for commenting a portion of the
Tex code. I put the following fragment in

Options -> Option Interface -> Main Menu

ITEM="Insert_Comment"
    CAPTION="&Insert Comment"
    IMAGE="CommentInsert"
    MACRO="Exe('%b\Menus\Edit\Insert Comment.edt');"
    SHORTCUT="16452::Ctrl+D"

Then I saved and reloaded. But it did not work. Any suggestion? Is Ctrl+D
already assigned to something? How can I know all the shortcuts that are
active presently?


-----------------
Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,
Debjit
=============
Debjit Pal

 <http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/%7Edebjitp>

tex/latex comment multiple lines

Joao Seixas (CERN — 2013-04-18T13:01:13

Dear friends,

One thing I would find very useful in TeX/LaTeX would be the ability to 
automatically comment multiple lines in a text. Maybe I did not look 
carefully, but I did not find any procedure to do that in WinEdt (it 
exists in editors such as notepad++, at least for C programmers). Is 
there any macro for that? How difficult would it be to implement that in 
WinEdt?

Thank you for your help.

document background color

Dolores — 2013-04-17T12:26:40

Dear friends,

I would be very grateful if somebody could explain me how to change the
background color of the document in WindEdt 7. In version 5.4 it was easy:
Options -> Highlighting-> Background Scheme -> Document window background
and you can choose from a list different background schemes: plain, gray, etc

The problem is that white is too light for me and i would like a gray as
background colour but in such a way that the other enviroment highlighting
are preserved.

Thank you very much for your help.

unwanted language dialog at the start of adobe reader

Ulrike Fischer — 2013-04-17T12:25:31

I have Adobe Reader 11.0.2 on a win 7 ultimate.

I'm using the "PDF Search" macro/menu to open the adobe reader and I
have assigned the shortcut SHORTCUT="24641::Shift+Ctrl+A" to this
menu.

If I use my shortcut to open the reader then I get a small language
selection dialog from the reader. What can I do to suppress this
dialog? (I get the dialog only if the reader isn't already open. And
I don't get it if I use the menu entry instead of the shortcut. I
also don't get it if I open the reader e.g. by doubleclicking on a
pdf-file.)

How to enable "Auto-select TOC branch" by default ?

Igor A. Kotelnikov — 2013-04-16T11:33:10

I like using "Auto-select TOC branch" in the "Project" menu. However WinEdt
does not remember my choice of this item. Is it possible to
enable "Auto-select TOC branch" by default?

I'm using WinEdt 7.0 64bit.

Igor A. Kotelnikov

find next

Norbert Wermes — 2013-04-08T13:13:55

The "find next" key sequence in WINEDT7 is rather clumsy "alt F3".
How can I change this to eq "cmd f" (on a MAC)?
Norbert