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I use Windows 7. I have a project open and a file from that project. I want to split the window using Window->Split to edit one part of the document while seeing another one. The split option is shaded (as in non-clickable). Any idea why?

Also, when I have many windows open the buttons Tile Horizontally and Tile Vertically do nothing. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?

T. Verron
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Jesus Martinez Garcia
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  • I'd welcome you again, but I hope you already feel welcomed! Please, only one question per post. Take a look at our FAQ. – Sean Allred May 18 '13 at 04:12
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    :-) I kept them together because they are both in the same menu and clearly related. I'm sure solving one will solve the other one. – Jesus Martinez Garcia May 18 '13 at 04:15
  • Thinking about it more, you're very likely right. Have you tried opening more than one document? Just a random guess, but it may be that you can't have two windows if you don't have two documents to view (even if one should view the output of the other). It is beta, after all. – Sean Allred May 18 '13 at 04:19
  • yes, I need to open a second document for the commands tile horizontally/vertically to make sense, but they don't work. If I try to open the same document twice (I thought of that) it does not open a new document because all in all the document is already opened.

    Given that the window environment is usually controlled by Windows libraries I start to suspect it might just be a bug, but I thought I would give it a try here before bugging the developers, in case it isn't a bug.

     – Jesus Martinez Garcia May 18 '13 at 04:22
  • I meant open two separate documents – Sean Allred May 18 '13 at 04:23
  • Yes, I understood you. The button split still appears shaded after opening two separate documents. In any case split is not useful to most people with two different documents but with one only. – Jesus Martinez Garcia May 18 '13 at 04:25
  • My apologies. And don't think you'd be bugging the developers at all! If it's a bug, they'll fix it. If it's not, they'll make the documentation more clear. (All feedback is appreciated! We often get so little...) The feature works as expected in 1.x, I presume? It's unlikely that they would have intentionally changed this part of the interface if it did exist. – Sean Allred May 18 '13 at 04:31
  • I'm not sure. I don't have 1.x anymore :-( In the 1 beta the search tool use to go back to the beginning of the document and it doesn't anymore in the v2 (I reported this in the alpha stage but they didn't fix it, so I guess they like it that way). – Jesus Martinez Garcia May 18 '13 at 04:52
  • @Jesus is this thread work for you ? – texenthusiast May 18 '13 at 05:12
  • @texenthusiast not exactly, but I didn't know that, so thanks for letting me know. My problem is with the windows "inside" texniccenter. The answer below solves all the problems but the splitting one (which is the one I care the most about. – Jesus Martinez Garcia May 18 '13 at 07:46

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This surely sounds like a bug, which you should report. Regardless, here's how to achieve what you're after (to some extent) when in "document tab" view.

With TeXnicCentre 2.0 Beta 1 a drag-and-drop of the opened files initiates the tiling. So, given a setup like

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click on LaTeX3 and drag it into the code just below it to make it tile. Dragging it to the bottom provides a horizontal tiling

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while dragging it to the right/left provides a vertical tiling

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To restore the tiling, drag it back to the tabs of the files listed files. Out of "document tab" view (View > Document Tabs > Off)

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tiling works as expected, both vertically

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and horizontally

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Werner
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  • Wow, that is great and it solves the tiling. Thanks a lot. The buttons are still dumb, so it is definitely a bug.

    I guess you have the same problem as I do in the splitting? You are using the same version as I am and your windows look a lot as Windows 7 to me. If you do, please let me know. It is driving me crazy to write an appendix at the same time as a chapter.

     – Jesus Martinez Garcia May 18 '13 at 07:45
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    @Jesus: I am using the same version as you. As mentioned in my updated answer, the "Document tab" view is the culprit that fixes the view and avoids tiling. If you turn of "Document tab" view, then you can cascade and tile the windows to your liking. – Werner May 22 '13 at 22:24
  • Hi, wow I didn't know about the 'view' options. Thanks. Unfortunately they don't solve the splitting problem. Do you also have it? Thanks a lot for your answers! – Jesus Martinez Garcia May 24 '13 at 06:52