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5. Miscelleanous

5.1 Configuration

Calling the menu Config->Settings or the Configuration button at the toolbar opens the KTeXShell configuration dialog. At present there are four things to configure:

• Template Directory This opens a directory choosing dialog where cou can point to the directory where are your TeX templates stored
• Format Here you can choose and add new TeX formats. In fact, you have to enter the command line to call TeX with the desired format. If i.e. the format is LaTeX and the command to call is spells "latex", you have to write the latter here.
• Editor Configure your favourite editor(s) here.
• DVI Viewer Add and select your favourite DVI viewer(s) here.

Remark: In order to add a format or program to one of the combo boxes, please type the approbiate name into it and press Enter in order to get the input applied to KTeXShell. At the moment there is no way to remove an entry from the combo boxes. If you really have to do that (due to a typo or so), you have to edit the configuration file in your home directory manually. Please be careful to adjust the "number" entry for each program to the actual number of configured entries. The path of the configuration file is ~/.kde/share/config/ktexshellrc.

5.2 Program behaviour

Since KTeXShell to a large extent deals with external processes (tex, editor, viewer etc.), which are in most cases connected to the output area of the application, there has to be implemented some mechanism to have control over these processes. (In fact, these external processes have to register at KTeXShell on startup and do unregister on exit.) For this reason, in order to close KTeXShell itself, all external programs called through KTeXShell have to be closed first. If you try to close the application with some external programs left open, you will get an error message which asks you to close the child processes first.

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