Questions tagged [winedt]
{winedt} is a shareware (non-free) all-purpose text editor for Windows, specifically designed and configured to integrate seamlessly with a TeX System (such as MiKTeX or TeX Live).
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shortkeys in winedt 11
I just upgrade to Winedt11
I would like to change somme shortkeys.
For instance, one among plenty, I want alt-T lauching LaTeX in place of Ctrl-L
and alt-d launching dvi in place of f8
As I read, I ...
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WinEdt and multiple text selection and formatting
I have a very large text and i want to repeatedly select a large number of keywords and phrases inside the text and then to apply to them, the \emph style. Is there a way (at least) to select more ...
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Can i change the behaviour of tab and autocompletion in winedt?
I use WinEdt 11 and would like, that the tab would behave more like for example in Intellij.
When i type \bin i can use tab to complete it to \binom{}{} with my cursor being in the first {}. I would ...
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Is automatic download in WinEdt still a problem?
This question never got an answer how-to-automatically-download-packages-from-ctan-with-winedt. The discussion trailed off in comments and chat with never a solution. And now I have the same ...
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How can I use WinEdt to ensure successful using psfrag?
The following website provides an example of using the psfrag package to replace strings in EPS images.
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/psfrag-example/tggxhgzwrzhn
However, with my setup of ...
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WinEdtPDF giving invalid floating point exception after reboot (PC, Win 10/11, WinEdt 11.1)
I have been using the WinEdtPDF viewer with WinEdt V11.1 without issues. However, immediately after a reboot it now reports:
Exception ElnvalidOp in module WinEdtPDF.exe at
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Change HTML preview in WinEdt 9
I use WinEdt 9 on WIndows 10. How can I change the default HTML previewer in WinEdt 9? Currently, it is Chrome. I would also like to associate Shift+Ctrl+H to open the preview while editing an HTML ...
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Unable to install new packages on MiKTeX
I've been having trouble recently to install new packages from online sources, using MiKTeX + WinEdt.
Through WinEdt:
and then:
the following error occurs:
The text of the error message is "...
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How to change the colour of different tabs in WinEdit
I want to differentiate between different opened tabs in WinEdit so I want to use different color for each opened tabs
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LaTeX3 on Windows 11. What distribution to install [duplicate]
I'm about to get a new computer with Windows 11.
So far I have been using Win 8.1.
My question is whether I can install on it LaTeX3 as TeXLive distribution.
Is this LaTeX3 already stable and does it ...
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WinEdt 11: the lines are too long
In my WinEdt 11 in tex-file, the lines are very long, they go far off the screen, and I have to move the cursor to the right for some time to see what is written there. In older versions of WinEdt, ...
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WinEdt 11: a button that sends you into the dvi-file at the place where your cursor in the tech-file is
I am not a programmer, so I apologize for describing the situation in the words of a user.
I installed WinEdt 11, and I see that for some reason there is no button here, which in the old versions of ...
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Winedt vs TeX Editors on MacOS
I spent years on Win using Winedt as TeX/LaTeX editor. Very good, well worth the money.
Now I decided to move to an iMac and MacOS, of course. I have TeX installed (MiKTeX, for different reasons) and ...
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How to configure (if is possible) the Reverse Search with VS Code (with LaTeX Workshop)?, similar to WinEdt ReverseSearch preview [duplicate]
How can I configure (if is possible) the Reverse Search with VS Code (with LaTeX Workshop)? Similar to WinEdt's ReverseSearch preview.
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How can you improve/configure que VS Code preview?. WinEdt and TeXstudio preview is much better
Comparing WinEdt vs TeXstudio vs VSCode(with LaTeX Workshop).
I love the autocomplete of VS Code, but the preview of VS Code is a little fuzzy/blurr comparing to WinEdt and TeXstudio.
How can I ...
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WinEdt wrongly displaying cyrilic
I am trying to open a tex file with WinEdt 11 which is written in cyrilic. When i compile it no issues with the output pdf, but while i am inside the editor the cyrilic is displayed with strange ...
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Trouble with enabling bibliography entries in Winedt editor
I currently have a tiny problem with enabling bib references autocompletion when using Winedt editor. Here comes the description: I have a collection of bib reference entries in a myref.bib file and I ...
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SWP5.5 LaTeX Error: File "`tcislid2." tex' not found [duplicate]
I am compiling a LaTeX file created with SWP 5.5. But I was stuck by LaTeX Error: File "`tcislid2." tex' not found.
How can I solve it?
Some information:
I do know there are two ways to ...
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How to enable brackets "()", "[]" and "{}" autocompletion in WinEdt editor?
I want brackets auto-completion in LaTeX. For example, when I typed (, I want ) appear automatically. There was a post very similar, and I tried like Ulrike Fischer answered: go to the ActiveStrings....
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WinEdt TREE and bib files in local texmf
I would like to be able to open bib files from other directories from the WinEdt Tree. However, WinEdt cannot locate them (see figure below). The project/files compile; LaTeX is set up correctly. ...
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How to configure Winedt 10.3 to use SumatraPDF
This has become impossible.
The advice on the forums is to use magnifying glass in Execution Modes -Pdf viewer and then navigate to C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF
but SumatraPDF is not there, it is ...
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Powerdot paper orientation (or page width?) suddenly changed
My system:
Windows 10
MikTeX 22.3 (I think that's what it tells me when it starts. First there is a nerd joke about pdfLaTeX 3.14159...)
WinEdt 10.2
Workflow: .tex -> .dvi -> .ps ->.pdf
I ...
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WinEdt: No .synctex file generated in a sudden
Some time in this week I found the inverse searching and forward searching functions are not working anymore. I checked the generated files and found that the .synctex files are no longer being ...
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Latex Error: 'stix.sty' not found
I am using WinEdt 6.0, Miktex 2.8, Revision on 2.8.3527.
I am running the template of ETRI Wiley Journal.
Following Messagae is coming:
Latex Error: 'stix.sty' not found
Kindly help to fix the error.
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Missing toolbars in WinEdt 11
I use WinEdt 11. The toolbar is as in the first picture, but I want it to be like the second picture, because in the first I even have no (run/compile) PDFTEX menu!
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Why when using replace to replace a string in winedt by another string starting with backslash, the backslash disappear?
I have been trying to replace all the strings, v_b, with a new string, \bar{v}, in Winedt for a latex document. I used the replace function to do this. However, after each replacement, the new text ...
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Is it possible to customize the colors of console, etc of WinEdt 11? [duplicate]
Is it possible to customize the colors of console, options interface, autocompletion list, etc. in WinEdt 11?
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How to view the existing images in WinEdt for Menus? (Not ToolBar)
How to view the existing images in WinEdt for Menus? (Not ToolBar)
How can you see the existing images available for menus, to type in IMAGE="....."
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How to enable auto close brackets in WinEdt?
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I have read the "docs" for it however it only mentions Active Strings as a way (ALT + SHIFT + ENTER) which works but it is manual. I would like it to auto complete } as soon as I type ...
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Regular expression in winedt
In the current version of my book I use static referencing but now I want to use dynamic referencing using \label and \ref and performing the appropriate substitutions. Some substitution examples are ...
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WinEdt cannot find MiKTeX
I installed MiKTeX. It works with TeXworks. Then I installed WinEdt and WinEdt did not recognize MikTeX. I did this many times before and WinEdt always recognized the location of MikTeX. The location ...
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WinEdt is saving files under the wrong type
I am using MiKTeX console 4.6, in WinEdt 10. I believe some setting got accidentally re-set but I have no idea what setting that would be.
Starting yesterday, when I have a TeX document open I can go ...
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Wrap text for .bib files in WinEdt
I tried using some of the solutions posted on this forum for wrapping text in WinEdt for my .bib files, but what I tried so far does not work.
I tried selecting the "Wrap" option at the ...
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How can I get the MiKTeX console to open through new WinEdt?
I just installed MiKTeX using the basic-miktex-21.8-x64.exe installer. After installing, it asked me to update. I did that successfully. Then I installed WinEdt 10, Build: 20180507 (v. 10.3) - 64-...
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Moving Customized WinEdt Dictionary to New Machine
I am a user of WinEdt and I am about to get a new computer. I have a lot of words added to the spell check dictionary (mainly mathematician's names!). Is there a way to move this list to the new ...
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Cannot generate references while using the MDPI journal template
I am trying to compile my MDPI Journal using the LaTeX template found here.
I am trying to use the variant A: external bibliography style as follows:
%=====================================
% ...
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How to keep previously opened .tex files open while I start winedt
I am working on a report and my document class is report. I work with multiple chapters and would like WinEdt reopens all the files from my previous session. Till yesterday it was like that but after ...
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How to create new macros for combination of several keys
I am using WinEdt 10.3. I previously used WinEdt 7.1. For WinEdt 7.1 I have configured macros for combination of several keys. For example, in WinEdt 7.1 in order for an \jour to appear when you press ...
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Modern cv - WinEdt and MikTex - after Installation on Windows 7 - do not work
I have installed yesterday MikTex and WinEdt 10.3 version on my computer.
I have opened my file which I want to generate, however it always reports a mistake:
! LaTeX Error: Option clash for package ...
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How to keep a tex file in the history of our winedt forever?
How to keep a tex file in the history of winedt forever? I had already experienced this without any problem. But now the (recent) files are not saved in the history of winedt.
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How can I remove an active dictionary from Winedt?
Here's an odd one :
I've recently managed, after much toil and pain, to install a French dictionary in Winedt 10 and make it work. The problem now is that I wanted to switch back to English again (for ...
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MikTeX updates fail right after install
I read several posts with similar issues but none of the solutions seem to work for me. I had MiKTeX 2.9 installed on my Windows 10 machine for many years and one fine day it just stopped working in ...
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Encoding of file from WinEdt to TexMaker
I have a TeX file that was created, edited and compiled by another person using WinEdt. I now want to keep writing on it using TexMaker, but when I open it with this new editor, these strange symbols ...
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Winedt PDFLaTeXify not working
I moved to a new machine and can't get texify to work. Everything else works - I can use PDFLaTeX to run the .tex document, run biber, then PDFLaTeX repeatedly to get the desired PDF. But PDFLaTeXify ...
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How to automatically download packages from CTAN with WinEdt
I've been working with Miktex2.9/WinEdt10 for at least 2-3 years without issue.
Yesterday, I tried (and failed) to make latexdiff work.
In the process, I reinstalled Miktex.
Now, if I compile anything ...
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MiKTeX file location for plain TeX macros using WinEdt
I use plain TeX (not LaTeX) on a Windows 10 PC to create worksheets for my HS math classes. I've been using MiKTeX 2.4 and WinEdt5 (since 2001) but decided to try upgrading to the latest of each (...
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Why latex file shows some characters instead of digits?
I wrote a text in overleaf and then i transferred the file to winedit. But, some digits and characters are shown wrongly with some symbols.
Formula in overleaf vs formula transferred in winedit
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Non working ArXive file
I have un-tarred an interesting book from here but when trying to compile the file "2categories_book.tex" the following error occurs :
And after pressing enter even more errors occur! How ...
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Warning Citation undefined even after defining citation in the .bib file
I have defined all the citations for my report in the separate .bib file. And I am using package biblatex for my bibliography. But wherever I cite my articles and compile using PDFTeXify, I get ...
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What is the meaning of an error message "can't find file ***.vrb"? (A fix now known, a full explanation still missing)
My system:
Windows 10
WinEdt 10.2.
MikTeX 2.9.
The problem:
I am editing a set of powerdot slides named Luku16.tex. All of sudden I started getting these strange error messages when trying to ...
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