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These commands launch and switch to the corresponding application without saving and typesetting the current document. The LaTeX command, for instance, is identical to the old latex command in latex.tcl v2.0.

As you write your document using the various commands on the LaTeX menu, templates are inserted into the text along with tab stops (represented by bullets, which may also be inserted with <OPT 8>). The idea is to type an argument at the current tab stop, press <TAB> to go to the next tab stop, enter another argument, press <TAB> again, and so on. That's what Next Tab Stop and Prev Tab Stop do: they move around from tab stop to tab stop. Since Next Tab Stop and Prev Tab Stop are bound to the <TAB> and <SHF TAB>, respectively, the menu commands aren't as convenient as simply pressing the tab key, but they're included on the LaTeX menu for completeness.

NOTE: Press <OPT TAB> to insert a literal tab into the document.

The nth Tab Stop command generalizes Next Tab Stop and Prev Tab Stop. The user is prompted for an integer (positive or negative) specifying which tab stop to go to (relative to the cursor position). The nth Tab Stop command can also be used non-interactively in Tcl procs.

The Prev Command and Next Command commands move the cursor to the beginning of the previous or next LaTeX command, while Prev Command Select and Next Command Select select the previous or next LaTeX command. Similarly, Prev Command Select With Args and Next Command Select With Args select the previous or next LaTeX command, along with any command arguments that may be present. Required arguments containing nested braces will not be selected, however. See section 1.7 for more information about this and other Alpha LaTeX bugs.

Like Prev Command and Next Command, these commands either move the cursor to the beginning of the previous or next LaTeX environment, or select the previous or next LaTeX environment. They are useful for locating or relocating environments.

The Prev Section and Next Section commands may be used to navigate large files with many sections. They use the regular expression funcExprAlt (which, of course, may be modified) discussed in section 1.4.2. The Prev Section Select and Next Section Select commands select the previous or next section, that is, all the text from one \section command to the next, and are useful for relocating large blocks of text.

The Prev Subsection and Next Subsection commands are similar to Prev Section and Next Section except that they also stop at each \subsection and \subsubsection as well. They use the variable funcExpr discussed in section 1.4.2. In TeX mode, these commands take the place of Alpha's generic Next Func and Prev Func commands, which are bound to <KPAD3> and <KPAD1>, respectively, in other modes. Like Prev Section Select and Next Section Select, the Prev Subsection Select and Next Subsection Select commands select the previous or next \section, \subsection, or \subsubsection.