What is Your Favorite Latex Editor and Why?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around participants' preferences for LaTeX editors, exploring various options and their features. The scope includes personal experiences, usability, and functionality of different editors.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Technical explanation, Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • One participant mentions starting with Lyx but found it challenging and noted that the generated code is not entirely standard LaTeX.
  • Another participant expresses a preference for Gummi due to its dual-pane interface, although they found it lacking in development activity.
  • Texmaker is highlighted by multiple participants as a preferred choice for its completeness, ease of installation, and effective preview features.
  • One participant advocates for Vim, citing its availability across systems and efficiency for programming tasks.
  • TeXnicCenter is recommended by a participant as the best option for Windows users.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express varied preferences for LaTeX editors, with no consensus on a single best option. Different editors are favored based on personal experience and specific needs.

Contextual Notes

Some participants mention limitations in their experiences with certain editors, such as usability issues or lack of development, which may affect their recommendations.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in LaTeX document preparation, particularly those seeking recommendations for editors based on usability and features.

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What do you guys use to write your documents? And why?

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I don't have a lot of experience and my Latex history is pretty short (a few months)...I started out of curiosity and...

I had looked into Lyx but had a bit of hard time 'getting it' and I seemed to have understood that the code that they generate is not quite 100% latex.

Then, I run into http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi and like the idea of dual panes with source on one side and pdf on the other...but soon I found that is not quite complete and lacked development activity.

Then, I found Texmaker and like it very much! It is very much a complete piece of software and is easy to install on MS-Windows AND Linux.

my 2 cetns
 
I started with LED, but then moved to Texmaker. Both of these are good, Texmaker the best. Very easy to install, and has a good preview plane with the ability to jump back and forth between the preview (equation) and the matching code in long documents.
 
Vim.
 
I also use vim.
There are certainly more comfortable/graphic etc choices, but I decided to use vim for any programming task because I work both on windows and latex machines and vim is available and fast on any system. Furthermore I am writing with the ten finger system and vi doesn't force you to leave the baseline to enter commands.
 
For windows TeXnicCenter absolutely the best!
 

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