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Winefish manpage

Customization by Daniel Leidert for the Debian distribution.

NAME

winefish - LaTeX editor

SYNOPSIS

winefish [OPTION...] FILENAME

DESCRIPTION

winefish is a LaTeX editor based on bluefish. It features:

- autotext support

- autocompletion support

- command collector

- multiple encodings support

- custom menu to define your own tags, sets of code, and dialogs

- customizable syntax highlighting based on PCRE(3)

- user customizable integration of latex(1), pdflatex(1),...

- custom search and replace pattern support for the custom menu

- wizards for startup, tables, list and others

Homepage

winefish.berlios.de
winefish.viettug.org
winefish.sourceforge.net

Mailing lists

winefish-devel@lists.berlios.de (development)
winefish-users@lists.berlios.de (users)

OPTIONS

winefish currently supports the following options (in alphabetical order):

-l LINENUMBER

Set the line number the file will be opened at.

-n { 0 | 1 }

Open a new window (1) or not (0).

-p PROJECTFILE

Open the specified project file.

-s

Skip root check.

-h

Show this help screen.

-v

Show the current version of winefish.

FILES

Some configuration files are loaded into $HOME/.winefish:

$HOME/.winefish/autotext

Store shorcuts for text, i.e. LaTeX blocks

You may edit it from the autotext panel in the preferences window

$HOME/.winefish/custom_menu

Define the contents of the custom menu

You may edit it from the Edit custom menu item

$HOME/.winefish/hightlighting

Define the highlighting patterns for some languages

You may edit it from the highlighting panel in the preferences window

$HOME/.winefish/rcfile

Store most of the other settings defined in the preferences window

You may modify the settings in the various panels of the preferences window

$HOME/.winefish/words

Store a list of tags for autocompletion

You may add tags from the autoX panel in the preferences window

EXAMPLES

Starting winefish from the command line:

winefish

Opening a file foo in a new window at line 100:

winefish -n 1 -l 100 foo

Opening a project foo in the current window:

winefish -n 0 -p foo.wfproject

SEE ALSO

latex(1), pdflatex(1), dvips(1), dvipdfm(1), xdvi(1), xpdf(1), gv(1), $prefix/share/doc/winefish/winefish.html

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Michèle Garoche <michele.garoche@easyconnect.fr> for the Fink distribution as the original program does not have a manual page. But it may be used by other distributions.

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