Quick Preview

The user has to select a part of the document. Menu entry Build->QuickPreview->Selection or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+P,S will start the selected programs. Kile takes the preamble of the original text, so that all packages and user defined commands are included. The user can choose one of seven predefined configurations:

This should be sufficient for all situations for which a quick preview is needed.

Very often you want to preview the current environment, and especially mathematic environments, which sometimes may be difficult to write. Kile offers a very fast way to do this. No selection is needed, only choose Build->QuickPreview->Environment or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+P,E and the current environment will be compiled and shown.

If you have a large project with a lot of documents, compiling the whole project is not a great idea, if you have made changes only in one single document. Kile is able to compile and show a preview of the current subdocument. It takes the preamble from the master document and only compiles the current part when you choose Build->QuickPreview->Subdocument or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+P,D.

The mathgroup preview mode allows you to preview the mathgroup you are currently editing. Kile takes the preamble from the master document and only compiles the mathgroup the cursor is currently in when you choose Build->QuickPreview->Mathgroup or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+P,M.

Instead of showing the preview in a new document Kile can also be configured to use the bottom bar for preview compilations. You can activate this feature in the quick preview configuration panel.