Texmaker
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| Texmaker | |
 Texmaker in action |
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| Developer: | Pascal Brachet, J.Amblard |
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| Latest release: | 1.5 / January 2, 2007 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | LaTeX |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | xm1math.net/texmaker |
Texmaker is a cross-platform open source LaTeX editor.
[edit] Features
- a unicode editor to write your LaTeX source files (syntax highlighting, undo-redo, search-replace, spell checker...)
- the principal LaTex tags can be inserted directly with the "LaTeX" and "Math" menus
- 370 mathematical symbols can be inserted in just one click
- wizards to generate code ('Quick document', 'Quick letter', tabular, tabbing and array environments)
- LaTeX-related programs can be launched via the "Tools" menu
- the standard Bibtex entry types can be inserted in the ".bib" file with the "Bibliography" menu
- a "structure view" of the document for easier navigation of a document (by clicking on an item in the "Structure" frame, you can jump directly to the corresponding part of your document
- extensive LaTeX documentation
- in the "Messages / Log File" frame, you can see information about processes and the logfile after a LaTeX compilation
- the "Next Latex Error" and "Previous Latex Error" commands let you reach the LaTeX errors detected in the log file
- by clicking on the number of a line in the log file, the cursor jumps to the corresponding line in the editor
- an integrated LaTeX to html conversion tool
[edit] User Anecdotes
This program's strength is the ability to write continuous lines of text without having to worry about line breaks. This is very similar to TexShop in Mac and is in this user's opinion better because it removes the worry of having to align the text. Unlike other lattex editers, the line breaks are often inserted for the user, but the implementation is poor: WinEdt requires a user to select the justify function to realign the text. Tex2000 actually inserts %% at the end of each line in the actual text for it to automatically adjust line breaks and other text editors to read the text file.
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