texmaker, texstudio or lyx
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Too many decisions(!), anyone experienced using these editors?
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zappathustra
> Hello,
>
> Too many decisions(!), anyone experienced using these editors?
I never used any of those, but I'll just remark that LyX isn't a text
editor but a complete interface to (La)TeX; i.e. you don't work
directly with the tex source file (although I believe you can too). So
I suppose LyX is a good choice if you don't want to see too much of
low-level code. On the other hand, if you think you might use your
editor for more than just TeX, I'd recommend using one which isn't
tied to any language (Vim or Emacs or Scite or whatever), given that
good TeX support also exists for them.
Best,
Paul
Lars Madsen
I would not all Lyx a complete interface for LaTeX. There will probably
not be an interface for all packages available.
One can start with Lyx, but over time one will run into the limitations,
where one realises that an editor with direct access to the LaTeX source
of the document one is writing, will be a better choice.
TeXmaker or texstudio (a fork of texmaker) will be a good choice for a
beginner wanting to write latex code
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> Too many decisions(!), anyone experienced using these editors?
If you want something close to WYSIWYG and free, then LyX is your best
bet, but keep in mind that it only imports/exports to/from LaTeX and
doesn't work directly with LaTeX sources as such.
TeXmaker and its fork TeXstudio are very similar and it doesn't really
matter, which one you choose, because you can switch to the other one
in a heartbeat. I find them both to be good editors and very
intuitive to use, although I slightly prefer TeXstudio for its more
advanced editing features.
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Joris
Texworks is another possibility.
Chandrashekhar Kumar
bundled with Tex Live and find it to be sufficient for my purpose.
Peter Flynn
> On Jul 29, 12:33�pm, e-letter<inp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Too many decisions(!), anyone experienced using these editors?
>
> If you want something close to WYSIWYG and free, then LyX is your best
> bet, but keep in mind that it only imports/exports to/from LaTeX and
> doesn't work directly with LaTeX sources as such.
>
> TeXmaker and its fork TeXstudio are very similar and it doesn't really
> matter, which one you choose, because you can switch to the other one
> in a heartbeat. I find them both to be good editors and very
> intuitive to use, although I slightly prefer TeXstudio for its more
> advanced editing features.
Windows users can also use BaKoMaTeX. There is also Scientific Word.
///Peter
drlat
For writing books Lyx is champion in my opinion. But learning Emacs was
one of the best decisions I ever made, and I use it to write pure latex
code for some projects.
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Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I use LyX for most of my work (Obstetrician & Gynaecologist) in
particular letters, prescriptions, reports and papers, also a
thesis. In other words, stuff where you don't need to change the
format too often or deeply.
I also use it for surgery reports but am working to replaces this
with a database driven thingy on an iPad, the formal reports would
then be printed through LaTeX (via Perl). My bi-monthly tax forms I
generate with such a Perl script pulling the data from the
SQL-Ledger backend, (until such time the Receiver of Revenue offers
some electronic submission facility.
I type faster than the dictating, reviewing, correcting cycle, but
my secretary has LyX on her Windoze box if need be.
For some other stuff (I manage .NA :-)-O) I like R and Sweave, which
works on LyX, but for reports that need no individual text I just
keep the LaTeX code in the Sweave fragments.
I work almost exclusively on Mac and I like Texshop there (for LaTeX
stuff which doesn't easily transport to LyX like some minute and
badge stuff) but Texmaker/Texstudio would be my choice if I was
crossing platforms regularily as they both work on Linux, the
Mac and Windoze.
el
On 7/29/11 12:33 PM, e-letter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Too many decisions(!), anyone experienced using these editors?
>
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Daniel Hannaske
> For writing books Lyx is champion in my opinion. But learning Emacs was
> one of the best decisions I ever made, and I use it to write pure latex
> code for some projects.
Oh yeah, I would also recommend to give Emacs with AUCTeX a try. It's a
really good editor with full LaTeX-/TeX-support. There's also a preview
mode, but I prefer to run the file through LaTeX instead.
Myself, I switched from vim to emacs. Unbelievable, isn't it? Only reason
therefore was AUCTeX.
Daniel
Guenter Milde
> zappathustra wrote, On 2011-07-29 13:54:
>> On 29 juil, 13:33, e-letter <inp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Too many decisions(!), anyone experienced using these editors?
>> I never used any of those, but I'll just remark that LyX isn't a text
>> editor but a complete interface to (La)TeX; i.e. you don't work
>> directly with the tex source file (although I believe you can too).
You cannot work with the tex source file under LyX. (However, you can use
"raw" TeX code in documents.)
> I would not all Lyx a complete interface for LaTeX. There will probably
> not be an interface for all packages available.
I don't think there could be any *complete* interface for LaTeX. And
indeed, using LyX with special commands or packages not supported by its
standard modes is more complicated than from within a text editor.
I would call LyX a "GUI for LaTeX", and if you look for a convenient
method to write structured documents (books, letters, reports or a
thesis) with "nice" screen feedback, LyX is a good choice.
> One can start with Lyx, but over time one will run into the limitations,
> where one realises that an editor with direct access to the LaTeX source
> of the document one is writing, will be a better choice.
> TeXmaker or texstudio (a fork of texmaker) will be a good choice for a
> beginner wanting to write latex code
If you want to write latex code, yes. To write documents, I prefer LyX.
Günter