Samstag, 13. November 2010

LaTeX Editor of choice

I was using TeXnicCenter since I wrote my first file in TeX and it has always been my editor of choice. Until today. The eclipse project texlipse (http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/) has always been very promising and finally I decided to change to eclipse for a couple of reasons. Following features of TeXnicCenter which are now also available with texlipse:

  • Forward search and inverse search in conjunction with SumatraPDF
  • Auto completion for user defined labels
  • Auto completion for environments without typing “\begin”. So you can start typing “descr” and it will be replaced by “\begin{description} …”
  • Lightweight interface with the LaTeX perspective

Furthermore, texlipse provides several very useful features. For example:

  • Auto completion for unknown environments. Start typing “begin” and the end tag will be created automatically
  • Integrated parser and support of error markers
  • Automatic closing brackets
  • Context dependant code assist. (Special mathmode commands are only shown in a mathmode environment)
  • Automatic \item tag in item environments
  • Better spell checker
  • Counting words
  • Support of TODO list from TODO comments
  • Integration of subversion in eclipse
  • Automatic incremental build
  • Context help with code assist
  • Auto completion of labels shows a small preview of the context in which the label was defined
  • Available for all major platforms
  • Very active project

So long, Tom

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