LaTeX editors & software

TranceDude · 09-19-2005, 04:56 AM

Hi,

I want to learn LaTeX, so I'm looking for some LaTeX editors & compilers for linux.
I'm a LaTeX beginner, so I want to try different editors first, for seeing which I like.
Maybe anybody can give me some good LaTeX editors? I also don't know which LaTeX compiler I have to use, so advice is welcome!

thanks in advance

jonaskoelker · 09-19-2005, 05:26 AM

Just use your favorite (text) editor, be it emacs, vi, gedit, ksomethingnotepadthiswaycomes, ...

For compiling the files, I (mostly) use pdflatex from the tetex-bin package (which, unsurprisingly, is a part of the `tetex' \TeX system), but the package name may differ across distros.

hth --Jonas

TranceDude · 09-19-2005, 07:46 AM

hi,

But I'm not so experienced using latex, so I'm looking for a sort of IDE for writing my latex files and compiling them by pushing a button.
Are there such programs?

thx

Regulus · 09-19-2005, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by TranceDude

But I'm not so experienced using latex, so I'm looking for a sort of IDE for writing my latex files and compiling them by pushing a button.
Are there such programs?

I don't know any. If you are not afraid of using the commandline, you could make a 'makefile' to latex or pdflatex your tex-file. In that case your 'pushing a button', is executing 'make'.

Regards,
Regulus

jonaskoelker · 09-19-2005, 09:23 AM

I think it's a three-liner:

Code:

default: myfile.pdf
%.pdf: %.tex
<tab>  pdflatex $<

hth --Jonas

rshaw · 09-19-2005, 09:34 AM

http://www.lyx.org/

TranceDude · 09-19-2005, 09:47 AM

thanks

lyx seems to be very good!

maenho · 09-19-2005, 09:49 AM

if you have KDE installed you could use Kile (kile.sourceforge.net)

TranceDude · 09-19-2005, 12:13 PM

thanks a lot for the help, i'm starting to learn latex now

unihiekka · 09-25-2005, 09:05 AM

when you want to get deeper into the source: Kile is a great editor