Special Tags in L^AT_EX

L^AT_EX has thousands of tags for symbols and special characters. The easiest way to insert these tags is to use the sidebar menu, left of the editor window.

The following types are avaible:

The tooltips of the icons show the L^AT_EX commands and additionally needed packages.

Pressing Shift and clicking a symbol will result in $\symbolcmd$ being inserted. Similiar pressing Ctrl inserts it in curly brackets.

If you insert a command which requires a package which is not included in your L^AT_EX document, you will see a warning message in the logview window.

The first list of symbols holds the Most Frequently Used symbols. Inserted symbols will be added to this list, for quick and easy reference. The ordering of the symbols will not be changed upon addition of new symbols, instead a reference counter is incremented. If the number of items would exceed 30 items, the item wit the lowest count will get removed.

The User Defined symbol list can hold your own symbols. To create your own symbols you need the program gesymb and the file definitions.tex from the kile source package. Additionaly you need a L^AT_EX compiler (what a surprise) and dvipng (version 1.7 or later). The procedure is so that you create a L^AT_EX file with \input{definitions}, which makes the commands listed below available, and let gesymb mysymbols.tex user (which calles L^AT_EX and dvipng) create the icons. After copying them to $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kile/mathsymbols/user/ and restarting kile you can use your own symbols.

The following commands are defined in definitions.tex:

An example for completeness is given here:

		\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
		\usepackage{amssymb}
		\input{definitions}
		%
		\begin{document}
		\pagestyle{empty}
		%
		\begin{neededpkgs}{amssymb}
		\mathcommand{\surd}
		\pkgs{amsmath}\mathcommand[\ddddot{}]{\ddddot{a}}
		\mathcommand{\angle}
		\end{neededpkgs}
		\command{\"A}
		\mathcommand{\exists}
		\mathcommand[\stackrel{}{}]{\stackrel{abc}{=}}
		
		%\begin{neededpkgs}[russian,koi8-r,T2C,]{babel,inputenc,fontenc,mathtext}
		%   	
		%   \end{neededpkgs}
		% this would need to include the packages
		% \usepackage{mathtext}
		% \usepackage[T2C]{fontenc}
		% \usepackage[russian]{babel}
		% \usepackage[koi8-r]{inputenc}
		%  just to explain the format
		\end{document}