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ALPHA LaTeX MACROS
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Welcome to the Alpha LaTeX macros, a package designed to ease the input and
processing of LaTeX documents. This is the "LaTeX Help" file available
from Alpha's Help menu. To navigate this file quickly, activate the
window's mark menu by pressing the '' icon on the toolbar at the right.
NOTE: This is the help file for latex.tcl 3.0 (compatible with LaTeX 2e).
For backward compatibility with LaTeX 2.09, install latex.tcl 2.0
by choosing 'install:latex 2.09' from the Utils menu.
Features
¥ LaTeX 2e compatible
¥ automatically invokes TeX mode upon opening or saving a .tex document
¥ single-keystroke typesetting of LaTeX documents (will even typeset
an untitled or unsaved window)
¥ works with all known Mac TeX implementations, including OzTeX,
Textures, CMacTeX, Euro-OzTeX, DirectTeX, and DirectTeX Pro
¥ dynamic menu items
¥ color syntax highlighting of LaTeX key words
¥ intelligent treatment of selected text (called "wrapping")
¥ will easily create LaTeX document templates, complete with
punctuation and tab stops
¥ handy text-to-LaTeX conversion utilities
¥ quickly navigate and select commands, environments, subsections,
sections, and chapters
¥ "smart quotes" and "smart dots" with on-the-fly escape; "smart"
subscripts and superscripts, too
¥ command-double-click feature that chases references and citations,
or opens and
iles, as well as