The Build Tools

If you are using BibT_EX for your bibliography entries, you usually have to follow a special compiling scheme. This means calling L^AT_EX and then BibT_EX and then L^AT_EX twice again. Fortunately Kile is clever enough to detect automatically if it is necessary to call additional tools like BibT_EX, makeidx and Asymptote. This logic is by default turned on and can be changed in Settings->Configure Kile...->Tools+Build in the General tab in the L^AT_EX and PDFL^AT_EX tools.

If you are using the makeidx package to make a final, alphabetical index for your document, you have also to follow a certain compilation pattern or let Kile do this for you in the same way as with BibT_EX files.

If you want to compile your document with MetaPost or Asymptote, picture drawing programs, you can do it with Build->Compile->Metapost. or Build->Other->Asymptote.

There is also another way to compile your document, if you want a PDF: you can run PDFL^AT_EX, that will compile the source directly into a PDF file, with Alt-6: you can then view the compiled file pressing Alt-7.

Alternatively, you can convert a PS into a PDF with Alt-8, or directly a DVI into a PDF with Alt-9.

Using PDFL^AT_EX instead of L^AT_EX may be just a matter of simplicity or habit, but sometimes the behavior of the two program can differ.

Finally, you may want to publish your work on the web and not just on paper. You may then use the latex2html program, that can be called from Kile's menu Build->Convert->LaTeX to Web. The result will be placed in a subfolder of the work folder, and you will be able to see the result of the conversion choosing the menu item Build->View->View HTML.

If you want to pass some specific command-line parameters to the compile, convert or view tools, you can configure their call in Settings->Configure Kile...->Tools+Build.