On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:25 AM, Max Lein wrote:

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Ok, I'm no expert, but I figure this is what many, many people want to do. Perhaps you could just list these commands in a separate file and include that file appropriately?

Not with the tools at our disposal, no. But see below for what you can do now.

The approach you have suggested seems to work fine.

However, I think it would be much better if the user has a chance to review his deltas to a bundle. (This is not something you can do, I guess, but rather the developer of TextMate.)

Very well, but use at your own risk. For this, open the Bundle Editor (⌃⌥⌘B) and create a new language. Give it any name you like and put it in any bundle you want. Then, in the big text area on the left, place the following text:

That seems to work fine, thanks a lot! In this way, my own additions are isolated from your updates to the bundle :-)

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Well, we do what we are used to in the end ;-) I use align, because I got used to the way it, ahem, aligns

formulas.

One of the things I hope to add to the bundle soon is the ability to quickly change between equation styles. I.e. you are in an align environment, and you press a button and it becomes a split environment. And so forth.

True.

Well, the closing tag will just close the one above it. You also want to open one. One could probably duplicate and modify the closing tag command, so that it instead adds a \begin{env} too. So it would be a "split environment" command. Might do that actually.

Agreed, nice idea.

Sorry, I should have said: The size of the LaTeX Help file. I'm all for creating other sources of assistance, like howtos and cheatsheets and stuff. The help is supposed to be for reading by someone new to the bundle, possibly even relatively new to LaTeX, who needs to get started getting things set up and learning the basic commands.

Ok, a difference in philosophy. However, then there should be more a more extensive version of the help someplace else.

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Instead, you could design one section to be read thoroughly and then let the rest be what it is: a manual.

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How about a cheatsheet instead? A single page containing all the necessary information, in the form of a pdf?

Sounds like a good start. Refer to the appropriate sections in the Help as well, then people can go on reading.

I was thinking of two different kinds of cheatsheets, one pdf that would fit in a page and could be printed, and one html/markdown, longer and with more explanation.

Sounds good to me.

I would say let's try to create some more specific "HowTo" questions, and then we'll see about answering them. I'll get started on the cheatsheet for now.

I think I have posted a short, incomplete list earlier, but ok, here we go: (1) Getting Started (2) Big LaTeX Projects (3) Managing bibliographies and references (4) Customizing The LaTeX Bundle

Max