{editors} is for general questions about text editors suited for editing (La)TeX source code. For questions about specific editors, use the appropriate tag, e.g. {emacs}, {vim}, {kile}, {texworks}, or {texniccenter}.
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point-and-click open source javascript equation editor for latex?
Does anyone have experience with a good open source equation editor for online use? I'm not interested in WYSIWYG (What are the Open source WYSIWYG Independent Web Equation Editors available on ...
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LaTeX Editors/IDEs
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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Selfhosted collaborative webbased LaTeX editor
I'm searching for a LaTeX editor that I can run on my GNU/Linux server and allows realtime collaboration as well as online compiling and previewing.
What I've tried so far:
FlyLaTeX: Editing works ...
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Click on macro name to jump to its definition?
Encouraged by a super response to my previous question on a similar topic, I shall persevere with a similar line of inquiry. I think it would be super if, in my LaTeX editor, I could click on a macro ...
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Getting a live preview of TeX (on Windows) - for just a small snippet of code?
I wish to have a quickly updating work area so to be able to learn my LaTeX faster.
From reviewing the answers on tex.stackexchange, and from going through the list of TeX editors on Wikipedia - I ...
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On-line LaTeX editor with Git or CVS support
Before I sign up to one of on-line LaTeX editors (writeLaTeX, ShareLaTeX, LaTeXLab) I was wondering if any of those support a real version control (CVS, SVN, Git, Mercurial etc). I saw that ShareLaTeX ...
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How can I save any sentence using short-cut key for future use?
Using the tool 'macro' in MS-word we can save any text 'word' or 'sentences'through a short cut key and use them using that key. As for example, I want to create
a short cut key of the sentence This ...
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Click on package name to open corresponding style file?
I think it would be super if, in my LaTeX editor, I could click on the name of package...
\usepackage{blob}
... and the corresponding style file, blob.sty, would be opened.
Do any LaTeX editors ...
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Entering unicode math symbols into LaTeX, direct from keyboard, on a Mac
I would like my LaTeX files to contain Unicode characters. For instance, I want to see
∃x．x ⟶ β
in my text editor, rather than
\exists x\ldotp x\longrightarrow\beta
Also, I would like to ...
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How to “jump” brackets in TeXstudio?
In Texmaker when you type the shortcut for \frac, you get something like \frac{*}{*}, but instead of asterisks, you have bullets. When you type something in the first pair of brackets, you can then ...
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Other editors with autocompletion shortcuts similar to those in TeXShop [duplicate]
There's one particular feature I really like about TeXShop. It's the ability to type something like \bali + escand you get the entire \begin{align} structure or try typing something like \bite + esc. ...
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How can I search for text with and without diacritics? [closed]
Even though this is not a question which directly connects to TeX I am going to ask it anyway:
Searching in and for text which contains Hebrew with nikkud and taamin (or Arabic with its diacritics) ...
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Sublime Text 3 LatexTools
I just installed ST3 and installed the LatexTools package using Package control.
Everything seems to have gone fine except when I compile using CMD+b nothing seems to happen.
On the terminal I get ...
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Are there any editors or packages with auto-correct for LaTeX commands?
When a LaTeX command is written incorrectly, the document does not compile and the workflow is interrupted. In most cases, this is due to a typo, such as writing \foornote{} instead of footnote{}.
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When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?
Occasionally, I see other people's documents starting with two lines like that:
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
It's clear to me that the first line declares the engine ...
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IDE for generating Flowchart LaTeX code
Is there any IDE that allows you to draw flowcharts and generate the LaTeX codes?
I've searched on google but came accross TikZ which is only a library? Is there any IDE support?
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Syntax Highlight in Winedt
I am using Winedt 7.1 and learning TikZ and I am thinking about to add the commands to the keyword.ini, in the help they mentioned, adding to many keywords may affect the performance. Is there a ...
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Using Notepad++ with MiKTeX and R (sweave) on Windows
This link provides a great tutorial on Using Notepad++ with MiKTeX on Windows I wish to extend this to run a combinationR and LaTeX using Notepad++ (sweave). I ran run R from Notepad++. I can run ...
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ConTeXt editors
There is a very active question about LaTeX editors and IDEs. I personally use Vim with LaTeX-suite for any latex editing, and I am very happy with it. Lately I began to use ConTeXt more and more. ...
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Why does spell check not work if the figure has a label?
In Texmaker, in the caption environment, why does spell check not work if the figure has a label?
This is an example I made to show this 'feature':
From the first line, we see that the ...
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Latex easy downloads [duplicate]
Can anyone help me find a suitable latex software that already includes an editor. I tried downloading MikeTex but it tells me to download an editor which I am not familiar with. I am not a hardcore ...
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Any LaTeX editor with grammar check capability? [duplicate]
Is there any LaTeX editor with built-in grammar check? I was writing my thesis and was just wondering; it could be very helpful.
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A LaTeX editor between TexShop and Texmaker for Mac OS?
I was using TexShop for a while due to its simplicity. But recently discovered Texmaker which makes it so much easier to type common functions (auto completion) and double compile before exporting as ...
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Front end software for editors
The editors and typesetters at my organization are not very computer savvy, so I don't think they would be interested in editing in LaTeX or XML directly. However, we are interested in pursuing a ...
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What's a good editor for (La)TeX programming?
I've found several questions about editors for writing LaTeX documents ( LaTeX Editors/IDEs seems to be the definitive one). But I'd like to know which editors are out there that help you develop ...
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Is there a LaTeX editor supporting Subversion out of the box?
Actually I am new to Subversion. Shortly speaking, Subversion is a tool to manage versioning of documents, especially for software developers. You can find the details here.
I have a team to write a ...
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Good LaTeX Table Editor? [duplicate]
For LaTeX tables editor, I am using LaTable version 0.7.1 which is good to a large extent. The only problem I have (so far) with this editor is the ability of adding multi-lines in a cell.
Can ...
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API replacement for our collaborative LaTeX gadget [closed]
My team created LaTeX gadget as a part of our groupwork web service - Rizzoma. To draw LaTeX formulas, we're using Google Charts API now: it's simple and sufficient, but supports input up to 200 ...
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Sublime Text 2 latex tools/New Build
Please excuse me if I've posted this in the wrong area. I've just started using Sublime Text 2 for Latex with the LaTeX tools plugin. It's wonderful.
I'm using Mac ox 10.6.8
I'm wondering about ...
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Instant preview and Vi commands for LaTeX on a Mac?
I have Sublime Text 2 and Skim installed along with MacTeX and LaTeXTools on my Macbook. I think this setting is really great, especially because Sublime Text 2 supports Vi commands via the 'Vintage ...
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Editing LuaLaTeX files in emacs
(A follow-up question to Which is the best editor for LuaTeX?)
Emacs offers the LaTeX-mode in AUCTeX for editing LaTeX files, while it has the Lua-mode for editing Lua-files.
Consider the following ...
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TeXmaker for plain TeX
Sorry if this has already been asked, but, if there is something similar like this TeXmaker for plain TeX?
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LaTeX with Sublime Text 2
I recently (2 days back) started using LaTeX, I use Sublime Text 2 (ST2) for most of the programming. I found that ST2 has LaTeX package. So what I am doing is write the document with ST2 and run it ...
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How to set up inverse search with Okular and Kile
The title pretty much sums it up. I use the package srcltx in my documents. I am running Ubuntu with Kile 2.1 and Okular 0.8.2 as a viewer. I am pretty sure that inverse search should work, but I ...
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Real-time TeX editor [duplicate]
I am looking for an offline, real-time-rendering TeX editor similar to what you find at http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/ask. It would be nice to have the ability to edit, save, and render the ...
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What are the Open source WYSIWYG Independent Web Equation Editors available on LaTeX/MathML
I am looking for a solution of an Equation Editor to be added to my site. The equation editor should be open source, WYSIWYG (users should be able to type out Equations as if in MS Equation Editor or ...
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Editor with a TeX-aware spellchecker
Is there around a TeX editor with a spellchecker that recognizes and handles properly TeX commands? For instance, I'd like it to underline with a red wavy line if I write "ntheorem" in my text, but ...
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Using Notepad++ with MiKTeX on Windows
I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows. So far I've been using LeD to compile my PDFs (using pdflatex). I want to start using Notepad++ to compile my LaTeX PDFs as I've lately become very fond of this ...
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Format LaTeX code in TexMaker [closed]
I'm doing a presentation using Beamer in TexMaker. The structure of the LaTeX source code is deeply nested and I need a way to format the code as in most programming IDE. Is this feature present in ...
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Which text editor to make tables scripts human readable
Suppose I want to edit a table
moon & 456456456423423534 & 2342523
sun & 234324 & 3453
You see I have to enter a lot of spaces manually to align stuff. It is ok ...
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LaTeX editor similar to Word [duplicate]
My supervisor asked me to give him a Word version of the paper to edit and comment. I used free latex2rtf to convert my document to word. I cannot say that it's perfect, but it saved my time. I was ...
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Fast access to bibliography reference key without browsing .bib file
I have an article linked with a very_big.bib file. To cite any reference in the article, I use \citet{reference_key}. However, to get the reference key I need to search very_big.bib file, which is not ...
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“kpsewhich” error when trying to build from Textmate
I'm using LaTeX pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.9-2.2 on Mac OSX 10.6. When I try to build from TextMate (Ctrl+R) I get the following error:
Please add the directory containing “kpsewhich” to PATH in ...
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Some installed packages not found
I'm using LaTeX on a Mac. The editor I use is Textmate 2.
When I hit "typeset & view", what I get is something like
! LaTeX Error: File 'xy.sty' not found.
However, if I do pdflatex ...
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Cmd-b compiles but only opens the PDF for some of my files, [closed]
Cmd-b compiles but only opens the PDF for some of my files and the other files perform a little differently. In all the other files compilation is successful but the PDF does not open or if it is open ...
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How can I run LaTeX from Sublimetext 2?
Actually, I have read the similar issues that are asked here. But still I can not find a solution for my case. I loaded Latextools plugin, and I installed Sumatra pdf viewer. Even though I added to ...
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How to add custom strings to Kiles's »structure«-list
In Kile, some LaTeX commands are rendered bright red (\section, \begin, \end, \cite, …) as opposed to other commands that are displayed in brownish red (\textbf, \newline, \enlargethispage, …).
In ...
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Is there a \newcommand manager program?
I type my latex document with gedit.
I use a lot of macro to facilitates typesettings.
I put all of them just after the begin{document} tag.
For a homework question says, I use at least 20 macros.
For ...
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Why can Bakoma process .tex files so fast?
Bakoma is a LaTeX Editor which has the real-time preview on Windows. On Linux, one has Gummi which has a similar feature and on Windows, I use WinEdt with Sumatra PDF together with an AutoIt script to ...
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WYSIWYG JavaScript editor for MathJax [closed]
I am looking for a WYSYWIG JavaScript editor for MathJax. I've read all the answers to similar questions (here and there) but could not find anything that is licensed under a liberal open source ...
