LaTeX Editors/IDEs

Question

What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents?

Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc.

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Answer 1

Emacs with AUCTeX — emacs auctex

• Platforms: Windows, Mac (incl. Aquamacs fork), Unix
• License: Free software (GPL)
• Languages: de, dk, fr, is, it, jp, nl, pl, se, sk are supported by AUCTeX language styles
• Unicode: Yes, from Emacs 23, characters are represented using Unicode
• RTL/bidirectional support: From Emacs 24, through bidi-mode
• % !TeX directives: No
• Syntax highlighting: Yes, customisable through Customize and Elisp
• Code completion: Yes, via Emacs Predictive Completion, which supports AUCTeX without further configuration
• Code folding: Yes
• Spell checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes
• Built-in output viewer: Yes
• Project management: org-mode

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Emacs is one of the oldest programmable editors, which supports the extensive LaTeX, ConTeXt, and Plain TeX editing mode, AUCTeX and its sister package for managing sources, RefTeX.

(In this screenshot, visual-line-mode is enabled. In this mode, lines that are wider than the window are broken between words. The line breaks are not added to the source file.)

RefTeX makes all your references as easy to find as a C-c <key>, for both BibTeX and biblatex, and also provides convenient shortcuts for navigating between sections in your document, bound by default to C-c =:

(Note that colour themes are completely customizable)

AUCTeX supports multi-file parsing, so that huge documents with \input or \include commands are easily compiled with C-c C-c from any of their files. No more going back to the master file in order to compile.

AUCTeX's preview-latex offers WYSIWYG previewing of formulae.

Interesting features of Emacs:

• Use table-insert along with table-generate-source and table-recognize-* functions to easily create a base for your tables.
• Lots of useful keyboard shortcuts
• Extensively documented, both in Emacs, via the Emacs and AUCTeX Texinfo manuals, and via many books in several languages.

Answer 2

Vim with LaTeX-suite — vim latex-suite

• Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux and others
• License: Open Source Charityware
• Languages: ?
• Unicode: Yes
• RTL/bidi support: partially
• % !TEX directives: No, but has modelines
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, customizable
• Code Completion: Yes (using Omni Completion, extendable with SnipMate plugin)
• Code Folding: Yes
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes, see e.g. this question
• Built-in Output Viewer: No
• Project Management: ?

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If you're really hardcore, you can always use Vim. There's a suite of macros and whatnot appropriate for Vim which can be used to edit LaTeX files.

You can have word/command completion via <C-P> and <C-N>, to go the previous and next matches, respectively.

There is a version of Vim with graphical menus, called gVim. If it is used with LaTeX-suite, then various TeX commands are displayed in the menu bar for quick insertion in the text. (For Mac, there is a native build called MacVim.)

Features

Vim also allows for code folding, the package vim-latex offers automatic code folding. Folding can also be done manually based on a key (e.g., {{{ and }}}) to open and close automatic folds. Example of folds can be seen as follows:

As per original question, some other useful features not listed elsewhere in this post include

VIM

• Regular Expressions
• Powerful keyboard short-cuts/commands
• Extremely customizable
• Smart Indenting

LaTeX-Suite

• Calling the compiler is quick with \ll; viewing the result is \lv
• Environments accessible with three letter sequences in insert mode:
  • EEQ = equation environment
  • EFI = figure environment
• Place-holders (<+text+>) can be jumped to with Ctrl-J without leaving insert mode
• Inverse searching: Double click in (supported) pdf viewer and you jump to corresponding tex source line

Answer 3

Texmaker — texmaker

• Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, OS X 10.5+, Linux
• License: GPL license, free
• Languages: cs, de, el, en, es, fa, fr, gl, hu, it, nl, pl, pt, pt (bra), ru, se, sr, zh (cn), zh (tw)
• Unicode: Yes
• RTL/bidi: ?
• % !TEX directives: No
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, customizable
• Code Completion: Yes, customizable
• Code Folding: Yes
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes
• Built-in Output Viewer: Yes, supports PDF
• Project Management: ?

Customizable code completion

Rectangular block selection

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The editor TeXstudio started out as a fork of Texmaker and was originally called TexMakerX.

Answer 4

TeXworks — texworks

• Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, OS X, Linux all pre-compiled plus source available
• License: GPL
• Languages: en, af, ar, ca, cs, de, fa, fo fr, it, ja, nl, ko, pl, pl, ru, sl, tr zh
• Unicode: Yes
• RTL/bidi: Yes
• % !TEX directives: Yes
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, regex-based
• Code Completion: Yes, customizable based on 'known entry' list
• Code Folding: No
• Spell Checking: Yes, but have to install by hand
• SyncTeX: Yes
• Built-in Output Viewer: Yes, PDF (Poppler-based)
• Project Management: No

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Screen shot of TeXworks on the Mac: the layout stays the same on Windows and Linux:

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On Windows and Linux, I use TeXworks, which provides with an editor window and a document preview window. Clicking in the document preview locates the edit mark at that TeX source corresponding to the clicked location.

Answer 5

Kile — kile

• Platforms: Linux, Windows¹ (XP, Vista, 7)
• License: GNU GPL 2
• Languages: ?
• Unicode: Yes
• RTL/bidi: Yes
• % !TEX directives: No²
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, customizable
• Code Completion: Yes, customizable
• Code Folding: Yes
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes (but the -synctex=1 flag must be added manually to the build engine)
• Built-in Output Viewer: Limited (PNG preview of snippets – e.g. current environment or selection – converted from DVI/PS/PDF)
• Project Management: Yes

¹ Installation instructions can be found here. The Windows version of the KDE applications is not finalised, so some of them may be unstable.

² While Kile does not have !TeX directives for defining compilation tool etc., it does have some "magic comments", similar to Latexila and TeXStudio. They are %TODO and %FIXME, which appears in the structure view, for adding notes in the code, and %BEGIN/%END for defining foldable regions of code.

Answer 6

TeXstudio — texstudio

(formerly TexMakerX)

• Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/7, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD
• License: GPL v2
• Languages: cs, de, en, es, fr, hu, ja, pt_BR, zh_CN
• Unicode: Yes
• RTL/bidi: ?
• % !TeX directives: Yes
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, customizable
• Code Completion: Yes, customizable and auto-customized
• Code Folding: Yes
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes
• Built-in Output Viewer: Yes, supports PDF
• Project Management: Yes

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I'd recommend TeXstudio an interesting fork of Texmaker that I find more usable and customizable.

Here is a screen shot of TeXStudio.

Other pros:

• cross-platform,
• writing support (incr. search, folding, navigation, auto-completion, custom macros)
• syntax highlighting,
• inline interactive spell-checking
• support to the main latex tools, including tikz, pstricks, etc.
• multi-views: math, structure
• svn support
• runs in a usb
• supports synctex
• pdf viewer included, but can be configured to use external viewers (also with synctex)
• very active and responsive developer and community

Answer 7

TexShop

Available for: Mac
Open Source

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In Mac I use TexShop, and it works smoothly together with MacTeX.

Among the features that it has are:

Editing features

• syntax highlighting
• source/PDF synchronization
• autocompletion of commands and environments
• macros
• stationery (for document templates)
• latex panel of commonly used symbols
• matrix panel for simple array input
• import spreadsheet cells with LaTeX formatting
• regex search/replace

Processing features

• built-in support for TeX, LaTeX, Xe(La)TeX, Lua(La)TeX, ConTeXt, BibTeX, biber
• built-in support for Sketch, Asymptote, Sage, LilyPond, LatexMk, MetaPost
• user definable Engines (scripts to process documents)

Answer 8

TeXnicCenter — texniccenter

• Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
• Open Source
• Languages: English, German, more dictionaries for spelling control downloadable
• Unicode: Only in version 2 (currently in beta state).
• RTL/bidi: ?
• % !TEX directives: No
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, customizable (also background colour)
• Code Completion: Yes
• Code Folding: Yes
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes
• Built-in Output Viewer: No. You can config TeXnicCenter to use an external PDF viewer like Acrobat Reader or SumatraPDF with synchronized viewing.
• Project Management: Yes

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I highly recommend TeXnicCenter. It stands out because it is the right mix between a GUI heavy editor (think Lyx) and no GUI (think emacs). Moreover, it is very easy to setup on Windows; and it integrates with MiKTeX without requiring extra configuration.

An easy-to-navigate user interface provides a document tree, editor and compiling output as well as a vast array of drop-down menus:

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Customizable profiles allow for manipulating of latex, bibtex and makeindex parameters, as well as post-processing features and viewer parameters (e.g. forward and backward search):

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TeXnicCenter also allows to jump directly to the line that caused an error and provides code completion. TeXnicCenter has easy and integrated project management tools, and handles multiple files conveniently. It can be synchronized with pdf viewers such as Adobe Reader or SumatraPDF to provide forward and backward search options. Forward and backward search lets user jump and navigate between LaTeX code and pdf output seamlessly.

Answer 9

WinEdt — winedt

• Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
• License: Shareware, personal license $60
• Languages: en
• Unicode: Yes (from version 7)
• RTL/bidi: No. "WinEdt 7 is currently NOT capable of properly handling Arab or Hebrew (or Thai) texts." (Mailing list April 2012).
• % !TEX directives: Probably possible.
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, customizable and including a .dtx mode
• Code Completion: Yes, customizable
• Code Folding: Yes, customizable (from version 8)
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes with appropriate PDF viewer (e.g. SumatraPDF)
• Built-in Output Viewer: No
• Project Management: Yes, own project management system and outliner

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WinEdt is a good option on Windows.

I wrote a post on some of the features I liked in WinEdt 6.0. To summarise:

• Tree View can be customised
• Automatically display your current location in TOC
• Colour coding that aids usability
• Intelligent defaults
• Options to customise almost anything
• Easy configuration interface with MikTeX
• One click build process for LaTeX documents
• Intuitive default shortcut keys and intuitive alt menu letters

It's not free, but it's also not that expensive.

WinEdt's new full Unicode support and its translation tables allow to show ∀α in the screen but to write {\forall}{\alpha} in the disk.

Answer 10

LyX

Available for: Windows, Mac, and Linux
Open Source

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I use LyX and I love it. From the webpage:

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in.

Quite intuitive and user-friendly, and it is possible to import from and (more importantly) export to LaTeX.

Too many useful features to mention, but I'll mention one that I find extra good: If you want to typeset a "2-dimensional" math expression, LyX is the way to go. I have used LyX for nearly ten years. Switched to AUCTeX recently, but I still use LyX whenever I want to get the LaTeX code for a complicated math expression.

Answer 11

gedit with the gedit-LaTeX-plugin

Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux and others
Open Source
Unicode: yes
RTL/bidi: yes

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It has a clean interface and provides: Code Completion, Spell Checking, Syntax Checking and Validation, Outlines, Wizards, BibTeX Integration, Template Editing, User-Defined Snippets and a preconfigured comprehensive build system using rubber (including LaTeX → DVI with source specials for inverse search).

For my gedit LaTeX suite to be complete, I add two other plugins, first the 'Control your tabs' plugin to get Ctrl-(Shift)-Tab behavior, and also the AutoCompletion plugin which provides automatic suggestions for completion of any word, based on the words already present in the document - it can be a real time saver.

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Temporary edit: Currently the plugin is not ready for release with gedit 3. So, if you're running the latest Ubuntu (11.10) or like being cutting edge, you need to manually install the LaTeX-plugin. The easiest way is to download the version you want from here extract and install with the standard ./configure, make, sudo make install sequence. Read the INSTALL file in the archive for more details. You can also get the most recent version of the plugin from their git repository.

Note: If the ./configure script gives the error "No package ‘gtk+-3.0′ found" then, under Ubuntu, run sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev and then try the script again.

Answer 12

TeXlipse

Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux and others (Java based)
Open Source

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I've been happily using TeXlipse in Eclipse for a long time, it has integrated code completion (including BibTeX entries), customizable templates, an outline view - and being integrated into Eclipse it includes all useful stuff I'm used to when working in Eclipse, like editor shortcuts, version control, etc.

There is also an Eclipse pdf viewer plugin Pdf4Eclipse with complete support of SyncTeX, which allows forward and reverse search in LaTeX documents. Since TeXlipse rebuilds the LaTeX sources automatically (in background) after a save, the code and the preview of the document are always synchronized.

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Answer 13

Sublime Text with LaTeX Plugin

Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux

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This is a simple, but powerful, editor. It's similar to Notepad++, but available on multiple platforms, and much easier to setup for LaTeX with the LaTeXTools plugin. It is also similar to TextMate, but is being actively developed and has a huge community which develops plug-ins for . It is also much prettier than both of them!

Note that this commercial software, and inquires a licence after an evaluation period (costs $70 USD). It is possible to run Sublime Text without buying a licence, but you will be reminded that you are using an unregistered copy.

Sublime Text features some really powerful tools when it comes to typing, some of which you don't understand that you could do without:

• multiple cursors
• go-to anything
• snippets
• incremental find
• project management
• numerous build-systems

and more (take a look at Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2). The screenshot below also displays it's feature for finding citations from BibTeX.

Sublime Text is an almost completely text based editor, with almost unlimited potential. The list of features is about as long as you want it to be. Install Package Manager, and you have a long list of repositories only a few seconds install-on-the-fly away.

• Platforms: Windows, Unix
• Licence: Free to try, free to buy
• %!TEX directives: Yes
• Syntax highlighting: Yes
• Code completion: Yes
• Code folding: Yes
• Spell check: Yes, both built-in and external packages
• SyncTeX: Yes
• Built-in output viewer: No
• Project management: Yes

Answer 14

KtikZ

Available for: Linux and Windows
Open Source

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I am a big fan of the Linux editor Ktikz. By default Ktikz is meant to be a real-time editor for TikZ pictures. However, one can edit any type of environment just by editing the default template. Moreover, by creating a template consisting only of the text

<>

one can get real-time compilation of LaTeX documents.

I usually restrict my use of Ktikz to editing Beamer presentations or drawing TikZ pictures (or other projects where the visual output needs extra attention or tweaking). For other purposes the real-time compilation can be more of a distraction than it is worth.

For windows users: install QtikZ (also available in the link). Tested with windows 7 and miktex 2.9, and it works with no problem.

Answer 15

TextMate

Available for: Mac
Commercial (Not anymore since version 2.0)

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With OS X I use TextMate with MacTeX. Now I don't want to change OS X for Linux only because I work with TextMate. It's powerful like vim and emacs. It's not free 45 euros. You can do all what you want and you can use and define snippets, macros, commands with shell programming or python or ruby. You can use it for mails or you can create HTML pages or you can programming with R, or Ruby. Perhaps to like this editor you need to learn a programming language like ruby or python (Perl and bash can be used). You can try it during one month for free.

Some screenshots:

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In this screenshot, you can see the bundles and in the LaTeX bundle you can see some commands and macros. You can define your personal bundle like my "latex author", you can work with the terminal from TextMate. You can find some movies on the net, to see how to work with TextMate.

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EDIT: Since version 2.0, TextMate has gone open source, here it is the link to Github.

Answer 16

Notepad++

Available for: Windows
Open Source

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I use Notepad++ and I love it. Sure, it's not built specifically for TeX, but it has all the powerful features you expect from a good text editor (powerful find/replace, regex, macros, plugin support, etc.) and lots of features for coding, like syntax highlighting (and it has built-in rules for TeX), code folding, etc. The best part is that you can map keys to run external programs, so all I have to do on my machine is tap F9 and it instantly runs pdflatex and compiles a PDF for me in one step, outputting errors in the command window if there are any.

It's not made exclusively for TeX, but if you're on Windows and want to use a single text editor for many purposes, one of which is TeX, Notepad++ is a very good option.

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This answer provides a step-by-step guide for setting up the connection between Notepad++ and MiKTeX.

Answer 17

Gummi

Available for: Linux (unstable development version for Windows exists),
Open Source

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Emacs is great, but what I generally use is Gummi. It has a 2-pane live preview which is really useful for catching syntax errors and formatting errors early on. Plus, when you save your latex document it will automatically save a pdf copy. Other features include helpers for matrix editing, inserting images, and a citing tool.

Answer 18

LEd

Available for: Windows
Freeware

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I can recommend LEd. It is Windows only and is just not working on some computers, still it is very functional; standard things like spelling, tree views, macros are present, while it has some more nice functions. I especially like a toolbar for beamer, but also noticeable is an option in search which can be used to highlight occurrences of a few queries at a time (regex supported of course).

Answer 19

Inlage

Available for: Windows
Commercial

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Inlage is a great LaTeX IDE for Windows Vista/7! It has a lot of features that make it easy to handle LaTeX. The autocompletion has many commands with icons and descriptions and if you have a tablet pc you can use the Math Input Panel to translate a symbol or an equation to LaTeX.

Main features:

• Math Input Panel to LaTeX
• Excel/Calc tables to LaTeX
• autocompletion
• spell checker
• docking system
• inverse/forward search (SumatraPDF)
• code folding

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Answer 20

WinShell

Available For: Windows
FreeWare

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WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX. The program includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and user configuration options. It is not a LaTeX system; an additional LaTeX package is required.

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Answer 21

Latexian

Available for: Mac
Commercial - $9.99 on App Store

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Taco Software just released Latexian for Mac OS 10.5+ -

Looks promising / interesting. It has an integrated execution environment which updates in near-real time with edits.

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Answer 22

Scribo

Available for: Mac
Open Source

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If you are looking for a beautifully designed LaTeX editor for Mac, you should try Scribo.
Although it's still in beta, it has a beautiful interface with a live outline of your document and a split-view. I am really anxious to see what it will become.

Also, I personnally use TextMate and the LaTeX bundle for typesetting small files.

Answer 23

LaTeXila

• Available for: Linux
• Open source
• Unicode support: Yes

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LaTeXila is an Integrated LaTeX Environment for the GNOME desktop. It has a very nice and clean interface. Its available in Ubuntu software center. You can preview what you write, when ever you want.

It has some "magic" comments for making todonotes, which will show up in the structure panel on the left hand side. These are %TODO and %FIXME, in both cases followed by some text (if there is no text, it won't show in the panel).

Answer 24

Vim with Snipmate plugin and Rubber

Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux and others
Open Source

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I used to use Vim-Latex, but I found it too heavy-weight and rigid. Snipmate provides a subset of the functionality, but it is easier to customize and works for any programming language.

Answer 25

Geany with GeanyLaTeX

Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux and others
Open Source

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Another great editor is Geany. It comes with support for Windows and Linux. Furthermore the software has a plugin for LaTeX. It is maintained by one of the main developers. The plugin has a wizard for new LaTeX documents, autocompletion, you can easily insert environments and it is well documented.

Answer 26

BaKoMa TeX Word — bakoma

• platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux
• License: commercial -- €55 or $101 per licence (other quantity discounts)
• Languages: English
• Unicode: Yes
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes, customizable
• Code Completion: Yes, customizable
• Code Folding: No
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: ?
• Built-in Output Viewer: Yes. Can view output in real time, and directly edit output file
• Project Management: Yes

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I think BaKoMa is an innovative useful WYSIWYG editor. It allows users to edit both in the .tex file and in the output file. The real-time preview feature can come in handy when creating graphics and figures (e.g. using PSTricks or TikZ). In a review of BaKoMa, Martin Osborne made the following comment:

If you find the output of \int_0^\infty hard to visualize, you'll definitely have trouble with the output of

\psline(25,25)(25,0)
\psline(0,0)(50,0)
\psset{origin={25,0},unit=25mm}
\psplot{-1}{1}{x dup mul}

[BaKoMa] TeX Word makes it easy: you type the code and the output appears instantly. For me, TeX Word has cut the production time for figures by at least 75%.

Answer 27

Scientific WorkPlace

Available for: Windows
Commercial

Platforms: Microsoft Windows® NT 4.0, or Windows® 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows® 7 or later or Apple Macintosh® running an emulator program such as Virtual PC™, Parallels, or the free Virtual Box running a version of Windows® listed above

License: commercial, US$810.00

Spell Checking: can/must be purchased separately

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It has MuPAD as built-in computer algebra system, is described here and a trial version can be downloaded from here.

Answer 28

Texpad — texpad

• Platforms: Mac (and iOS)
• License: Commercial
• Languages: English, German and Japanese
• Unicode: Yes
• % !TeX directives: No
• Syntax Highlighting: Yes
• Auto-typesetL OSX only
• Code Completion: Yes, command completion and autofill
• Code Folding: No
• Spell Checking: Yes
• SyncTeX: Yes
• Built-in Output Viewer: Yes, supports PDF
• Project Management: Yes, included files opened automatically

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Both

• Document outline (navigatable table of sections, subsection, etc)
• Auto-detection of typesetting chain (bibtex, makeindex, etc.)
• Global search
• Biber support

OSX

• Custom typeset scripts
• Snippets and code macros

iOS

• Onboard typesetter with support for Virtual fonts, e-TeX and PGF (beamer/tikz).
• Built in bundle manager
• Typesetting API to provide typesetting services to other applications

Answer 29

Well, basically all LaTeX editors are going to handle building the dvi or pdf for you and I never use code completion. What I mainly look for is an intuitive GUI, customizability and easy integration with external programs.

On the Mac I mostly use texmaker. TeXShop is fine for quick jobs, but it lacks the power and customizability of texmaker, e.g. I want to have more control over which pdf viewer to use and how to configure it. Sometimes I use Aquamacs Emacs when I need a bit more power, e.g. texmaker only does soft wordwrap but I find hard word wrap to be more useful when you are using version control systems. Aquamacs is the best Mac version of Emacs for LaTeXing because it has all of the popular LaTeX modes and extensions built in and well-configured by default. This saves a lot of time compared to setting up plain Emacs. Your pdf viewer is also an important part of your LaTeXing setup and I like Skim for its annotation features and easy integration with Aquamacs Emacs.

On windows I use texmaker or TeXnicCenter. The latter is again due to texmaker's hard word wrap blind spot.

On Linux I generally use Kile or some flavor of Emacs, but I only use Emacs if it is a machine that I use regularly enough to go through the pain of setting it up to work with LaTeX properly. I could use texmaker on Linux too, but since it is basically a slightly inferior clone of Kile there is not much point.

Answer 30

Emacs with WhizzyTeX

Available for: Linux, Unix-based systems
Open Source

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I just recently discovered WhizzyTeX for Emacs. It gives you a real-time preview of your document, as you type. It can also show you where your cursor is with respect to the document.

It works with everything that I've thrown at it: Math, tipa, synttree, TikZ, etc. The only problem I've encountered so far is that TikZ nodes with text get garbled together.

For Ubuntu/Debian users:

1. sudo apt-get install advi whizzytex
2. Start Emacs
3. M-x whizzytex-mode