quick preview and user defined commands

[Nallam]

Hi everybody,

One of the features I find most useful in Kile is the quick preview of a selection, to see the result of some paragraph or formula without generating the whole doc. But I can't make it run with user defined commands if they are not defined INSIDE the selection.

I usually define my own commands in the beginning of the document, with newcommand:
\newcommand {\needref} {[\textcolor{red}{REF!}]}

Then, if I select a piece of text that uses these commands and select Build>quickpreview>selection, the following error appears:

[PreviewPDFLaTeX] preview.tex => preview.pdf (pdflatex)
[PreviewPDFLaTeX] finished with exit status 1
./foo.tex:146:Undefined control sequence. \needref
[PreviewPDFLaTeX] 1 error, 0 warnings, 0 badboxes

Don't know if it is possible to make this work, or if I'm asking too much, but it would be great if quickpreview could know the user defined commands and generate the preview.

Any ideas?

Thnx

Nallam

[Nallam]

PERFECT. That did the trick. Believe it or not, I'd never tried that. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you and you don't notice it.

Thanks so much!

[Thomas Braun]

Hi,

your kile version?
It is supposed to work so please also give a small testcase.

Thomas

[Nallam]

Thanks for the interest.
I'm using kile 2.0.0
Here's a little example:

---

\documentclass [a4paper, 10pt] {article}

\usepackage {color}

\begin{document}

\newcommand {\needref} {[\textcolor{red}{REF!}] }
\newcommand {\xvspace}[1]{\rule{0pt}{#1}}

\title{Title title title}
\author{ Me, myself and I }
\date{}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}\label{Sec:Introduction}

Intro intro intro intro intro intro intro intro \needref intro intro intro intro intro intro.

\xvspace{7ex} More more more more more more more.

\end{document}

---

if I select the introduction and build>quickpreview>selection, I get:

===============================================
[PreviewLaTeX] preview.tex => preview.dvi (latex)
[PreviewLaTeX] finished with exit status 1
./kk:8:No file preview.aux.
./kk:20:Undefined control sequence. ...tro intro intro intro intro intro \needref
./kk:22:Undefined control sequence. \xvspace
./kk:8: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references right.
[PreviewLaTeX] 2 errors, 2 warnings, 0 badboxes
===============================================

and in the log:

===============================================

---

* PreviewLaTeX output:
cd '/tmp/kde-ikerlg9OYUa/kilerNm4Mp'
** latex -interaction=nonstopmode 'preview.tex'

---

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./preview.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, czech, slovak, danish, dut
ch, finnish, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, greek, monogreek, ancient
greek, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, icelandic, interlingua, tur
kish, coptic, romanian, welsh, serbian, slovenian, estonian, esperanto, upperso
rbian, indonesian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, galician, swedish, loa
ded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/dvipsnam.def))
No file preview.aux.
! Undefined control sequence.
l.12 ...tro intro intro intro intro intro \needref
intro intro intro intro i...

! Undefined control sequence.
l.14 \xvspace
{7ex} More more more more more more more.
[1] (./preview.aux)

LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references right.

)
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on preview.dvi (1 page, 524 bytes).
Transcript written on preview.log.
==============================================

But if I select the text starting from the command definition (command definition, title and introduction), everything goes OK.

Maybe I'm doing sth wrong?

[Thomas Braun]

Hi,

have you tried to set the newcommands into the preamble (above of \begin{document}) and then select some text for quickpreview?

Thomas