Following the links to the titles of each frame will cause a frame to fill the window - thus enabling searching of individual frames, and facilitating setting of bookmarks to individual pages. (Contents frames, have two links to the title; the word Contents brings the Contents frames to the top.)

This help has been built with UNIX machines in mind. If you are using TeXtures on a Macintosh, you should find parts of this help useful, particularly, if you have updated your version of LaTeX to run LaTeX 2e (as opposed to LaTeX 2.09 which demands files should start with the obsolete command \documentstyle …).

Note to TeXtures and remote users: feel free to download local LaTeX packages/document classes (you will need to have LaTeX 2e for these) or local plain TeX files.

A primitive but effective way to Search for (La)TeX related files is by checking ls-R for the appropriate .sty or .tex or whatever file (e.g. use Find from the Edit menu). Each line ending with a colon (:) denotes a directory containing the files that follow the is short for /soft/share/tex/texmf

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