At first launch, the following window will appear :

It is where the user can decide which metadatas are going to be used by TeXoMaker to caracterize, classify and filter the exercises. The above figure shows the defaults settings. The list begins with 4 metadata types than cannot be modified :

Here come the "user" metadatas : the ones you'll choose to classify and filter your exercises. By default TeXoMaker proposes 3 of them : Title, Domain and Chapter. You are fully free to remove, rename or add a metadata.

The exercises have to be prepared to contain the metadatas you choosed (same principle as for figure or metapost). The listing above shows an example of an exercise file ready to be imported (note that the order and the position of the metadatas in the exercise does not matter) :

%@ Titre: Recherche du trajet le plus court
%@ Domaine: Mécanique
%@ Chapitre: Cinématique
\large \textbf{Recherche du trajet le plus court}
\normalsize
\vspace{0.3cm}
                
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=8cm]{fig-exo-recherche-du-trajet-le-plus-court}
%@ figure: fig-exo-recherche-du-trajet-le-plus-court.pdf
\end{figure}
                
Un sauveteur se trouve sur la plage au point $A$ lorsque soudain il aperçoit une (très) jolie naïade en détresse au point $B$ dans la mer. Sachant que notre homme court sur la plage à la vitesse $v_1$ et nage à la vitesse $v_2$ et sachant bien sur que la durée du trajet doit être minimale, il faut l'aider à trouver la position du point $O$ d'entrée dans l'eau.
Pour que cette belle romance aquatique ne soit pas gâchée par un vulgaire problème de physique, il s'agit tout simplement de trouver la relation entre $i_1$, $i_2$, $v_1$, $v_2$ qui traduit la condition de durée minimale.
                

You can notice that the existence of all the metadatas you defined in an exercise is optionnal. For example you can define a new metadata like Given in to indicate in which year you gave the exercise last time : of course, this field will be empty for all the exercises you never gave.

Then you can also choose which metadatas will be visible in the exercises list, and in which order.

The above screenshot shows an example of choice you could make :

which will lead to an exercise list with the above header :

In this tab you can choose the path of the binaries that will be used by the program, and also the compilation strategy.

Usualy the default choices should work (the checkable box on the right side indicates the existence or not of the file you choosed). If you want to use Plain TeX, just enter the path to tex in the latex/tex line.Note that for example for those who will compile with pdflatex, the lack of the binary ps2pdf for example is not a problem.

You can add one or more compilation options (-shell-escape for example)

macbook:bin gwenael$ chmod +x ltx2pdf

This field has to be filled with the LaTeX preamble that you want to be used by TeXoMaker for all LaTeX compilations (exercises imports and exercises sheets creations).

You can see an example above :

If you have to import an (or several) personal macro file, please do it in the field below (probably using \input or \usepackage).

Below you can if you want use something different than the classic \begin{document}...\end{document}. It will be the case if you use Plain TeX for example.

Some settings concerning the exercises sheets creation :

You'll find here four optional fields :