GNOME LaTeX editor
by Lennart on Jan.31, 2009, under Uncategorized
I have been searching for a good GNOME LaTeX editor for a long time after i switched from KDE to GNOME. (My KDE favorite was Kile). I tested some andcame to the result that Texmaker is the best LaTeX editor that does not require the KDE libraries (even though it is based on QT)
Writing LaTeX with vim is also okay but I like to just press F6 and get the generated PDF file opened in my favorite PDF viewer.
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February 19th, 2009 on 10:35 am
This package depend on the QT4 library
March 29th, 2009 on 8:02 pm
Texmaker isn’t bad, but there are a few things I don’t like about it, such as the lack of auto spelling checking, and the way it doesn’t number sections in “Structure” view (and why does it put braces around the entries?). It’s also really ugly and doesn’t theme according to the GTK theme installed. It does it’s own ugly thang. I prefer to stick to gedit with simple latex highlighting (built in) and without the latex plugin. Building from a command prompt is fast and easy.
June 18th, 2009 on 3:05 am
Vi is so powerful… You could set a map command for F6 and get the same functionality. Anyway I like winefish for Gnome.
July 14th, 2009 on 12:32 am
I am newbie in linux. I used texnicceter in windows and I appreciated the software after I tried linux ones. I thought linux would be more latex friendly and would have user friendlier softwares.
After few search led to kile. Tried that, it is not at all user friendly. I started with a correct file and made a deliberate mistake in the tex file and try to get to the mistake. The output is garbage.
Then tried emacs as many were trying. Too many shortcuts, what is it for? I was trying to do something in emacs and using Control key plus something and it started capitalizing the words.
Then texmaker, was very pleased to see the texniccenter layout. Gives comprehensive error message with line number and line number is in the editor also. Was quite happy until I discovered the keyboard freezes for the program. Could not type. Oh what the hell, uninstalling linux and moving back to good old windows with texniccenter and miktex.
September 28th, 2009 on 1:25 pm
…It is also possible to use online latex editors like http://www.verbosus.com
Such editors make it possible to create pdfs directly in your browser without the need to install any software at all…