<\body> For an optimal typing experience, you may wish to configure in a way which suits your needs best. This can be done from within the menu. Most importantly, you should choose a ``look and feel'' in . This will enable you for instance to let the keyboard shortcuts used by be similar to what you are used to in other applications. The following user preferences are available: <\description> >This preference controls the general ``look and feel'' of , and mainly affects the behaviour of the keyboard. The look and feel depends on your system (, or under , under , and under ). The look and feel can be used as an alternative on all systems; it has been the default for all versions prior to1.0.7.6. More details on the can be found below. >This preference specifies how the user will be prompted for input when required. Questions may either be displayed in separate windows or on the status bar of . >This preference specify the level of detail in the menus. The less frequently used features will be left out when selecting . >The preference corresponds to the same viewing options as in the top-level menu. >Your preferred language for the interface. >In addition to the general look and feel, a few additional settings determine the behaviour of the keyboard: <\itemize> The specifies . Quotes can be automatically closed according to the style. Brackets can be automatically closed by enabling . >The printer setup can be configured from this submenu. >In theory, documents may embed macros or hyperlinks which give rise to the execution of arbitrary commands (as specified by the author). In practice, this feature may involve a security risk,. Therefore, the preference allows the user to specify what should be done with untrusted executable code. >The behaviour of converters between various other data formats may be configured from this menu. For more details, we refer to the . >Specify a default scripting language for all external scripts. > features a few additional tools which the user may wish to work under certain circumstances: <\itemize> A debugging tool for developers. A linking tool for entering typed hyperlinks and complex annotations. A versioning tool for comparing two versions of a document. A remote connection tool (which currently does not work anymore). >This preference specifies how often documents will be ``autosaved''. Any edits to a file which was not autosaved will be lost on undesired termination of . This typically occurs after an erroneous manipulations by the user, certain bugs in , or a power problem. >The user may specify an alternative to for the compilation of bibliographies using . Notice that recent versions of integrate anative alternative tool for the compilation of bibliographies. <\initial> <\collection>