Help

Help Documents
LATEX is a rather sophisticated system, where basic features can be expanded by a great variety of additional packages. Kile provides numerous different ways to aid the user.
LaTeX Reference 	An alphabetical index of the most common LATEX commands.
TeX Documentation 	teTEX/TeX Live ships with a huge number of help documents. This includes documentation for all the included packages and an additional LATEX reference.
LaTeX 	A full reference for TEX and friends. This is not only a description of all programs, but some important packages are also mentioned. It also includes a full reference manual of LATEX commands—ideal for looking up a particular piece of formatting while writing a document. As this document is really extensive, it is referenced in Kile by three bookmarks.
LaTeX Command 	Another alphabetical index of the most common LATEX commands.
LaTeX Subject 	A description of important LATEX subjects.
LaTeX Env 	An alphabetical index of the most common LATEX environments.

Context Sensitive Help
Kile also supports a context sensitive help, which is called with H,K. In Settings Configure Kile... Kile Help you can choose whether you want to use Kile's LATEX reference or the help system of teTEX/TeX Live, which is the default setting.
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Searching for Keywords
It is not always easy to find the right document as teTEX/TeX Live ships with a huge number of help documents. In order to facilitate this process, teTEX/TeX Live provides a tiny program called texdoctk. It provides a database of all the help documents, for which Kile offers a user-friendly interface.
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All the documents are grouped into categories. Additionally, one can search for package names or keywords. Kile will then show only the help documents matching the search string.
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A mouse double-click or the Space key will start a viewer for the selected document. This can be an arbitrary document, not only a , PS, PDF or document. Kile takes the settings into account in order to start an appropriate viewer.

User Defined Help
Besides this static teTEX/TeX Live documentation, Kile also supports a more flexible variable way for help documents. In the Help menu Kile has a special User help submenu, where the user can add documents of his or her own choice. These can be the most important documents of the teTEX/TeX Live documentation, or even self-written documents. It is also possible to enter URLs.
Go to Settings Configure Kile... Kile Help and choose the Configure button to configure this User help menu. You can add, remove or move menu entries around, and insert separators to optimize the structure of the menu.
Dialog: configure user defined help entries
Dialog: configure user defined help entries
Pressing the Add button will open another dialog, where you can edit the name of the menu entry, and choose the corresponding file or . The second button to the right of the text field launches , which can be used to determine the correct .
Dialog: add a new helpentry
Dialog: add a new helpentry
After finishing the configuration, all the entries will appear in the Help menu of Kile as a special menu entry User help.
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Userhelp menu