How to quick enter the math mode delimiters ($ $) using WinEdt?
There's no predefined shortcut for this in WinEdt.
Anyway you can add one, for instance Ctrl+J which is not used anywhere else.
To do this (assuming you have version 7 or greater), go to "Options" -> "Options Interface" and, in the branch "Menus and Toolbar", double-click on "Main Menu". A local copy of the file MainMenu.ini
will be opened.
At this point, locate the item
ITEM="$...$"
CAPTION="$...$"
IMAGE="Omega"
MACRO="IfSel(2,'>',!'SetSel(0);');InsLabel('','$','$');"
REQ_DOCUMENT=1
and add the line
SHORTCUT="16458::Ctrl+J"
so to have
ITEM="$...$"
CAPTION="$...$"
IMAGE="Omega"
MACRO="IfSel(2,'>',!'SetSel(0);');InsLabel('','$','$');"
SHORTCUT="16458::Ctrl+J"
REQ_DOCUMENT=1
Now press Shift+Ctrl+F9 to incorporate the changes and you're done.
As you can see in the "Insert" -> "LaTeX" menu, now the item "$..$" has the proper shortcut.
If you also want a button in the toolbar that is associated with that command, do the following.
In the same branch of the "Option Interface", double-click on "Toolbar". A local copy of the file Toolbar.ini
will be opened.
Now locate the line
BUTTON="Emphasize_(Italic)"
and just before it, insert the line
BUTTON="$...$"
As before, press Shift+Ctrl+F9 to incorporate the changes.
And here is your toolbar button:
Another solution is to use the following macro, heavily inspired by the fonts macros:
BeginGroup;
IfSel('0','=',>
'SelWord(1);>
IfSel(''0'',''='',>
''Ins("$ $");>
PreviousBullet;'',>
''InsLabel(""," $ "," $ ")'');',>
'InsLabel(""," $ "," $ ");');
EndGroup;
End;
that is to be stored in %b\Local\macros\
, say, as insmath.edt
. Then you add an item to the SHORTCUTS menu in MainMenu.ini, and locate the line:
END="Shortcuts"
. Add just above this line the item:
ITEM="InsertSel $ $"
MACRO="Exe('%b\Local\macros\insmath.edt')"
SHORTCUT="16570::Ctrl+$"
REQ_DOCUMENT=1
Its job is to insert a $ $ pair on either side of a selection, selecting first the closest word if no selection is done.
You can also add two lines just above the
END="SelectedPopup"
line in PopupMenus.ini:
ITEM="Insert $ $"
MACRO="[InsLabel('','$ ',' $')]"
You'll have access to this menu item with a right click on a selected text.
If you just want to typeset $ $
and get the cursor amidst, with only one key, you can make $ an active string adding these lines at the end of ActiveStrings.ini:
STRING="$"
START_FILTER="~\"
AFTER=0
ENABLED=1
MODE_FILTER="TeX"
MACRO="[SelCharLeft;Ins(' $ $');PreviousBullet;]"
Now $
is a shortcut, provided that you're in TeX mode and you did not type \$
. As far as I can see it, there is no other situation in which one might type $
for something else than entering in-line math mode.
Of course you'll have to incorporate the changes to each of the modified .ini files (Load Current Script in the Options Interface).