Re: latex2e button on the Help menu

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Thanks for the reply Alex. I followed both of your suggestions and got stuck 
though.

1) I went to 

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/LatexHelpBook/ 

and downloaded the latex2e.chm file, but nothing seemed to be there. I was able
to open the file but in the window panes all that appeared were messages like:
"navigation to this webpage was cancelled" or "the address is not valid". I
checked out the other .chm files at the same site above and they did the same 
thing.

Q1: Am I doing something wrong here?

2) I tried replacing latex2e.chm in the Menu Setup Dialog in the "Macro" and
"Requires File Filter" fields corresponding to the latex2e button with
latex2e.html, latex2e.pdf, etc. Didn't seem to work. I'm guessing that to
understand and get this to work right I'd have to learn the WinEdt's macro 
language.

Q2: Am I right? Could you give a quick pointer to a source that would help me
understand what's going on?

I know these questions don't involve incredibly important matters but they do
help me to understand how LaTeX and WinEdt work. Thanks again for helping Alex.

Re: Re: latex2e button on the Help menu

That does seem to be true: latex2e.chm there is essentially just a table 
of contents, with no actual content!

In <path_to_MiKTeX>\doc\latex\help, you'll find lartex2e.pdf, 
latex2e.dvi, and latex2e.html.  Presumably one of these was the original 
source for latex2e.chm.

I don't know how to convert one of these to .chm format (without buying 
a commercial utility), and I don't how to modify the WinEdt Help>LaTeX2e 
menu setup item so it will open one of those other formats instead of 
.chm.

I'd certainly prefer a .chm here, as a browser window or pdf viewer 
window normally includes much greater surrounding stuff that takes up 
much more screen space than for a .chm.

brianjd wrote:
> ================================================================================
> Thanks for the reply Alex. I followed both of your suggestions and got stuck 
> though.
> 
> 1) I went to 
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/LatexHelpBook/ 
> 
> and downloaded the latex2e.chm file, but nothing seemed to be there. I was able
> to open the file but in the window panes all that appeared were messages like:
> "navigation to this webpage was cancelled" or "the address is not valid". I
> checked out the other .chm files at the same site above and they did the same 
> thing.

Re: Re: latex2e button on the Help menu

I note that Microsoft does offer a free tool for download, HTML Help 
Workshop, that allows one to create .chm files.  (Just go to 
microsoft.com and search for "HTML Help Workshop".)

However, using that tool would seem to involve a lot of manual work to 
create an index, to set up all the internal links, etc.

Any body on the list have experience doing that?

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> That does seem to be true: latex2e.chm there is essentially just a table 
> of contents, with no actual content!
> 
> In <path_to_MiKTeX>\doc\latex\help, you'll find lartex2e.pdf, 
> latex2e.dvi, and latex2e.html.  Presumably one of these was the original 
> source for latex2e.chm.
> 
> I don't know how to convert one of these to .chm format (without buying 
> a commercial utility), and I don't how to modify the WinEdt Help>LaTeX2e 
> menu setup item so it will open one of those other formats instead of .chm.
> 
> I'd certainly prefer a .chm here, as a browser window or pdf viewer 
> window normally includes much greater surrounding stuff that takes up 
> much more screen space than for a .chm.
> 
> 
> brianjd wrote:
>> ================================================================================ 
>>
>> Thanks for the reply Alex. I followed both of your suggestions and got 

Re: latex2e button on the Help menu

> Thanks for the reply Alex. I followed both of your suggestions
> and got stuck though.
>
> 1) I went to
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/LatexHelpBook/
>
> and downloaded the latex2e.chm file, but nothing seemed to be
> there. I was able to open the file but in the window panes all
> that appeared were messages like: "navigation to this webpage
> was cancelled" or "the address is not valid". I checked out the
> other .chm files at the same site above and they did the same
> thing.

As Murray pointed out you need MS Help Compiler and you have to
learn how to use it if you want to create a working LaTeX2e.chm
from this package.

> I note that Microsoft does offer a free tool for download, HTML
> Help Workshop, that allows one to create .chm files. (Just go
> to microsoft.com and search for "HTML Help Workshop".)
>
> However, using that tool would seem to involve a lot of manual
> work to create an index, to set up all the internal links, etc.
>
> Any body on the list have experience doing that?

yes. I decompiled LaTeXHelpBook chm files (using MS HTML Help
Workshop). Then I edited the sources in WinEdt and recompiled
it back using WinEdt's Interface to HTML Compiler... I don't

Re: latex2e button on the Help menu

Now I'm confused, too...  With WinEdt , I have a grayed-out LaTeX2e Help 
item on the Help menu.  I went to Menu Settings > &Help > &LaTeX2e and 
there the Macro is:

   HTMLHelp("%$('TeX-Help');\latex2e.chm",1,1);

and this Requires File Filter:

   %$('TeX-Help');\latex2e.chm

What do those entries have to do with the command you describe?

   HTMLHelp('%B\Doc\LaTeXHelpBook\LatexHelpBook.chm',1,1);

WinEdt Team wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply Alex. I followed both of your suggestions
>> and got stuck though.
>>
>> 1) I went to
>>
>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/LatexHelpBook/
>>
>> and downloaded the latex2e.chm file, but nothing seemed to be
>> there. I was able to open the file but in the window panes all
>> that appeared were messages like: "navigation to this webpage
>> was cancelled" or "the address is not valid". I checked out the
>> other .chm files at the same site above and they did the same
>> thing.
> 
> As Murray pointed out you need MS Help Compiler and you have to

Problem with pdftexify

winedt5.6/vista with right to left problem (RTL)

I have right to left languages installed under vista. In order to use
certain RTL apps, I have to change "locale" in Regional Settings to
Hebrew(Israel). This has no effect on word or other programs. Thus the
default in word/notepad etc is the English keyboard (unless I specifically
change keyboards in the keyboard menu).

However, the locale setting causes the winedt editor to default to the
Hebrew keyboard every time I switch apps from winedt to something else and
back to winedt. 

Is there a setting or option in winedt that I have overlooked.

Many thanks

Jonathan

Options/Configurations/PERL not appearing

Seeking to add a PERL button to WinEDT (Build: 20040513  (v. 5.4)),
I downloaded WinEDT_PerlCC.zip and followed the instructions to
the best of my ability.  There was no trace of a WinEDT folder
under any of the "Application data" directories, but Search
found a WinEDT folder under C:\Layered products\WinEDT team
that contained a sub-directory "Config".  Assuming this to be
the correct location, I created a sub-sub-directory PERL and
unpacked WinEDT_PerlCC.zip to that directory.  However, on
re-starting WinEDT, "Options/Configurations" does not offer
a PERL option.  Can you help, please.  And a subsidiary
question : how does one interrogate WinEDT to ascertain
the expansion of WinEDT variables such as "%b" ?

Philip Taylor

RE: Options/Configurations/PERL not appearing

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip TAYLOR [mailto:P.Taylor <at> Rhul.Ac.Uk] 

> Seeking to add a PERL button to WinEDT (Build: 20040513  (v. 5.4)),
> I downloaded WinEDT_PerlCC.zip and followed the instructions to
> the best of my ability.

[snip]

The installation instructions on the page
    http://www.winedt.org/Config/modes/perl.php
were, it says, 
    Last update on: 27.11.2001

It might help to know what version of Windows you are using.

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Re: Options/Configurations/PERL not appearing

Win/XP, SP2.
** Phil.
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J.Fine wrote:

> It might help to know what version of Windows you are using.