Comments on: Latex editors and rubber

By: Christian Bryant

Christian Bryant — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:37:25 +0000

My personal preference, while I have always used Emacs/Auctex in the past, is TeXworks. The preview functionality is really handy and a time saver, especially when previewing documents to co-workers. Another plus is, I am a GNOME user so outside of Emacs, I prefer editors I can plop into my openSUSE systems which don’t include a stitch of KDE; I’m a past satisfied user of Kile but have since moved on. The downside is, while TeXworks is a very nice tool and widely distributed, it is still young and work really needs to get done to move to a stable major release. That said, it is one of the reasons I use the tool so useful feedback to the project can get it moving in that direction.

By: Atri

Atri — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:01:13 +0000

Thanks, Will, for pointing out my allergies. Guess I need to see a doctor about that, huh? Seriously though, I was just pointing out that there are apps that do work without pulling in a million kde libraries, and perhaps do a better job. Subjective matter here, but I do like texmaker a hell of a lot better than kile, though I do appreciate that the latter is a good application nonetheless. Oh! And you would do well to understand the network status of the place I am from, or the places I am trying to push linux desktops to — network status is not great and also quite expensive. I can do without downloading so many kde libraries if I am using GNOME, right? Of course texlive, etc. I HAVE to pull-in as I NEED them.

By: Will Stephenson

Will Stephenson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:57:29 +0000

Atri

Your allergy to KDE libraries is so 2001. Every reasonably complex app pulls in some platform with it. Firefox/Thunderbird pulls in xulrunner, OpenOffice has its UNO toolkit, Chrom[e|ium] has its own stack. Unless you are also not installing these and using only Epiphany, Abiword and Evolution, agitating against useful apps based on the KDE platform is irrational prejudice.

By: badshah400

badshah400 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:31:12 +0000

Thanks Anon and joon for pointing out the synctex capabilities of kile/okular. I was not aware of it, but about the only problem I have with Kile is its dependence on kde libraries. Otherwise as I said it is a fine application.

By: badshah400

badshah400 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:28:53 +0000

I guess that is true; for a power user it is indeed quite the package. But for beginners the three apps I mentioned are probably easier to use, I think.

By: joon

joon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:11:39 +0000

Thanks for the good article. With a little bit of configuration, you can do the inverse search with Kile/Okular as well.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:00:39 +0000

Kile also supports source/preview synchronization. It has always integrated just fine with my GNOME desktop. It’s true that it pulls in a lot of KDE dependencies, but I also tend to run a mix of KDE and GNOME programs, so that’s never been an issue for me.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:02:35 +0000

Or you can use emacs with auctex and preview, which has all these features and more combined…