Hi: I have slackware 14.1. Is there anything like an editor where I can type math simbols and these symbols are echoed as I type? That is, normally you prepare a "source" file and then some program translates my input chars into the corresponding math symbols. So, to be able to see what I have just typed I must first run that program. But perhaps I can embrace my input in some tags, say [math]...[/math] and immediately see what I type or perhaps even see it on the fly. Well, perhaps if not in the slackware distribution maybe somewhere else?

I know Donald Knuth created Tex. Don't precisely know what LaTex is. That's why I wrote "tex/latex" in the title.

Lyx?

Thanks. I'm reading the wikipedia page and I'm downloading it from slackbuilds.

texmaker may also suit your needs. It is at Slackbuilds.org

You edit on the left pane, and you can see what it looks like on the right pane.

Wonderful, I'll give it a try.

texmacs, too. http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html

Not a dedicated LaTeX editor here, just another emacs mode, but I really like my work setup anyway. I bind a key to compile function (which simply runs make), and use okular for WYG.

http://melikamp.com/pictures/screens...atex.png.shtml

I use Emacs with AucTeX and preview-latex. This lets you preview single formulas or every formula in a environment, section or document. The preview is displayed in the same buffer, so you have to switch between preview and editing.

kile rocks

I vote for Kile too

+1 for Lyx

Emacs + AUCTeX makes for an excellent (and very flexible) LaTeX editor.
There's a bunch of Emacs packages useful for LaTeX and mathematics (e.g., latex-math-preview, latex-unicode-math-mode, magic-latex-buffer, etc, available on MELPA), but also AUCTeX has preview built-in. I don't know how well it works though since I don't use preview in my LaTeX project (which is spread across multiple .tex and .Rnw files).
There's some good discussion on that here.

Kile is really the best editor (if you don't need graphical LaTeX editing). TeXStudio comes a close second.

EDIT: if you need on-the-fly rendering perhaps LyX and TeXMacs would be your best bets.

If you're comfortable with the console and familiar with Emacs or vi, they are quite powerful. Among the X-based alternatives I prefer Kile.

For a what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of software, I would definitely recommend LyX over TeXmacs. The latter seems pratically dead, and having edited a 500+ page book (originally written on Windows with Scientific Work Place), I am impressed by LyX's ability to correctly import and handle even such huge files. For fine-tuning and specialized needs you have to use LaTeX scripting directly, but LyX does a very good job for general editing tasks.

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If you will be using Tex/LaTex extensively you will need to learn to code directly in Tex/LaTex source. It is the fastest way to prepare Tex documents, and less ambiguious, annoying, with full control. My experience is ( a used a lot of) any Tex editor is at some point crippled, and finally only helpful solution is to read code directly. TexLive is now hugest free Tex distribution (about 3 GB or more), and it contains Texworks (source editor + pdf previewer) with forward/backward search - you can jump form source to pdf file and in reverse , from the pdf to the source.

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