Basis concept of settings in OneLatex

Starting the conversion process, OneLatex takes the settings from the file OneLatexSettings.json. Depending on the settings changes you made beforehand, the initial settings for the conversion process may vary. It is therefore strongly recommended that you copy and paste the entire settings at the beginning of the first page of the OneNote section (the process is explained in Creating your first document with OneLatex ). This ensures that the correct and always same settings are used in the conversion process of this OneNote section.

It is a big advantage of OneLatex that you can save the settings directly in OneNote. That gives you the following benefits:

The settings are saved together with your content information in OneNote. No separate files are stored somewhere else.
If all settings are stored at the beginning of the first page (see Step 2: Create a OneNote page for Initializiation purposes) then you don’t have to worry if the correct settings are applied.
You can easily change a specific setting at any position in OneNote again. During the conversion process, OneLatex applies then the changed settings from this point on until the end of the document or until the settings are changed again. Such adjustements are often useful if you have several tables or figures in your document that require different settings (see Paste just a certain setting for more details).

Performing actions with settings

Actions applied on all settings

At the top of the settings page you will find 3 icons with which you can copy, undo and reset (not save) all settings:

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The icons and the actions they trigger are described further down on this page.

<aside> 💡 Saving is not possible for all settings, but only for each setting.

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Actions applied on each setting

To each setting you can apply the following four actions:

Save

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Save setting in the file OneLatexSettings.json.

When you start the web application, the settings in this file are loaded as the current settings and appear on the "Settings" page.

Customise the settings so that they are suitable for most of your documents, like a template for settings.

<aside> 💡 Is is not recommended that you store document-related settings in this file. Instead, use the method described here, where the settings are saved directly in your OneNote notebook:Creating your first document with OneLatex

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The file OneLatexSettings.json is located in the folder \\OneLatex\\SystemFiles\\ in OneDrive.

Copy

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The setting is copied in JSON format to the clipboard.

The use case for this is that the settings can be pasted to certain OneNote page from where the settings are then applied. As a best practice, this can be applied in the following two ways: