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| [[WYSIWYM]] <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
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| L, M, W <!-- LyX -->
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| W <!-- MeWa -->
| W <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
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| 5.5 <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
| 5.5 <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
| ? <!-- TexnicCenter -->
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| {{yes}} <!-- MeWa -->
| {{no}} ([http://www.mackichan.com/products/pricing.html cost]) <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
| {{no}} ([http://www.mackichan.com/products/pricing.html cost]) <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
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| {{yes}} ([[GPL]]) <!-- LyX -->
| {{yes}} ([[GPL]]) <!-- MeWa -->
| {{no}} <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
| {{no}} <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
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| dvi <!-- LEd -->
| [http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview InstantPreview] <!-- LyX -->
| [http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview InstantPreview] <!-- LyX -->
| ? <!-- MeWa -->
| [http://www.truetex.com/truetex.htm TrueTex<sup>{{unicode|&#x00AE;}}</sup>] <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
| [http://www.truetex.com/truetex.htm TrueTex<sup>{{unicode|&#x00AE;}}</sup>] <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
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| {{no}} <!-- TexnicCenter -->
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| {{yes}} <!-- LyX -->
| ? <!-- MeWa -->
| {{n/a}} <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
| {{n/a}} <!-- Scientific WorkPlace -->
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Revision as of 04:35, 31 December 2009

This page shows a table contrasting the features of the text editors that interface to TeX (or LaTeX or its other incarnations).


Table of editor properties

Properties of TeX editors
AUCTEX Gummi Kile LEd LyX MeWa Scientific WorkPlace TeXnicCenter Texmaker TexMakerX TeXShop TeXworks WinEdt Gedit LaTeX Plugin Winefish WinShell
Editing Style[1] Source Source Source Source WYSIWYM Source WYSIWYM Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source
Native Operating Systems[2] L L L W L, M, W W W W L, M, W L, M, W M L, M, W W L L W
Latest stable version 11.85 0.4.2 2.0.3 ? 1.6.4.1 1.4.0 5.5 ? 1.9.2 1.9.3 2.26 0.2.3 5.6 2.28.0 1.3.3 3.3.0.3
Free (ie Gratis) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No (cost) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No (cost) Yes Yes Yes
Open source (license) Yes (GPL) Yes (MIT) Yes (GPL) No Yes (GPL) Yes (GPL) No Yes (GPL) Yes (GPL) Yes (GPL) Yes (GPL) Yes (GPL) No Yes (GPL) Yes (GPL) No
Configurable Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes Yes
Integrated viewer ? Yes Kpdf,Kdvi,quickview dvi InstantPreview ? TrueTex® No No selection with dvi2png Yes pdf dvi No ? No
Inverse search[3] ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? — Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes
DDE Support[4] ? ? No ? ? ? ? Yes No Yes ? ? ? ? ? No
Organises Projects ? No Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes No (master file) No (master file) No No Yes ? ? Yes
Menu for inserting symbols ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[5] No Yes Yes ? Yes
Document comparison ? No ? No ? ? No No ? ? No No Yes ? ? No
Spell-checking Yes[6] ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[7] Yes Yes ? Yes
Multiple undo-redo ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? No (one level) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
Collapsible sections ? No Yes Yes No ? No Yes in Ver.2 No Yes No No No ? No Yes
Find and replace using Regular Expressions ? ? Yes Yes No ? ? No No Yes Yes Yes[8] Yes (modified) ? ? Yes
'Intelligent' error handling ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? Yes
Autocompletion of latex commands ? ? Yes Yes only commands in maths mode ? — Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[9] No Yes Yes Yes
Parenthesis matching ? ? Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes no colouring Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Starts up to previous state (including editing point) ? ? No (just same files) No (just same files) Yes ? No Yes No (just same files) No (just same files) No No Yes ? ? No (just same files)
Unicode support ? ? ? No ? ? ? No (planned for 2.0) Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? No
AucTex Gummi Kile LeD LyX MeWa Scientific WorkPlace TexnicCenter Texmaker TexMakerX TexShop Texworks WinEdt GEdit LaTeX Plugin WineFish WinShell

See also

References

  1. ^ "WYSIWYM" = What You See Is What You Mean, i.e. you see and edit formatted text; "Source" means you see and edit the TeX source files.
  2. ^ L, M and W refer to Linux, MacOS and Windows respectively (of course other combinations are possible, using emulators or other software)
  3. ^ Inverse search means that one can locate the relevant part of the source code from the viewer (eg, double-clicking in dvi or pdf file brings up the appropriate line/paragraph in the latex code)
  4. ^ On Windows some pdf viewer like Sumatra PDF or Adobe Reader don't use command line arguments for forward search, but the editor sends the document position to them using DDE
  5. ^ LaTeX panel & Matrix panel
  6. ^ requires installation of extra package
  7. ^ requires installation of extra package ( → How to install spelling dictionaries for the TeXworks editor )
  8. ^ provides a subset of the regular expression syntax implemented in the Perl scripting language, but fully supports Unicode ( → Issue 194: Add advanced regexp options to Find/Replace )
  9. ^ template file in resource directory ( → Documentation of the code completion feature )
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