File Menu
This menu allows you to treat files and jPreTeX commands.
- New Document: choose it if you want to start a new document. Same action as the 1st button or Ctrl+n.
- Open Document: if necessary ask you to save the current document, then open a files dialog box to allow you to choose a document to open. Same action as the 2nd button or Ctrl+o.
- Open last documents: This button or menu command allows you to choose among the last 3 opened
documents.
When you push this button or click left this menu, the names of these 3 documents appear in a pop-up menu letting you to click on the one you want to open.
- Save Document: save the current document on the hard disc. Same action as the 3rd button or Ctrl+s.
- Save Document As: open a files dialog box in order to save the current document on the hard disc but with a new name or path.
- Save on removable: save the current document on the removable medium whose path is set by the Saving path command. Same action as the 6th button.
- Save .tex: save the TeX translation of your doument on the removable medium whose path is set by the Saving path command.
- Saving path: This command open a dialog box where you can type the path of the removable medium to save or load a document, (beside your hard disc); e.g. a: or /mnt/removable
depending on your medium and your O.S..
This path is valid for all documents in the directory of the current document, so the next
time it will not be necessary to type it again.
- PreTeX commands
- This command displays a dialog box showing all the external commands used by jPreTeX.
By default all the script files doing the following
commands are provided. You can modify them, but be careful.
- Main dir. : the directory containing jPreTeX. It is the directory jaPreTeX usually inside the home directory of the user. If several users use jPreTeX, it may be convenient to put it at an other location : on unix OS, in the /usr/local/ for instance.
- TeX dir : the directory containing TeX. It must contain the executables for compiling TeX, for compiling AmsTeX, for compiling LaTeX, for compiling Beamer.
- BibTeX dir : For compiling BibTeX : the script file allowing jPreTeX to compiles the TeX database references BibTeX.
- For previewing TeX : the command setting the previewer for TeX in PDF.
- For editing figures : the command setting the figure editor. jPreTeX uses GeoGebra by default but you can use your favorite one.