Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Text Editor: Texmaker 2.1

Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor with unicode support, that integrates a built-in pdf viewer with synctex support.

Texmaker runs on unix, macosx and windows systems and is released under the GPL license.

Features:
  • an unicode editor to write your LaTeX source files (syntax highlighting, code completion, undo-redo, search-replace, spell checker…)
  • a clean and modern interface
  • the principal LaTex tags can be inserted directly with the “LaTeX” and “Math” menus
  • 370 mathematical symbols can be inserted in just one click
  • a built-in pdf viewer
  • wizards to generate code (‘Quick document’, ‘Quick letter’, tabular, tabbing and array environments)
  • LaTeX-related programs can be launched via the “Tools” menu
  • the standard Bibtex entry types can be inserted in the “.bib” file with the “Bibliography” menu
  • a “structure view” of the document for easier navigation of a document (by clicking on an item in the “Structure” frame, you can jump directly to the corresponding part of your document
  • extensive LaTeX documentation
  • in the “Messages / Log File” frame, you can see information about processes and the logfile after a LaTeX compilation
  • the “Next Latex Error” and “Previous Latex Error” commands let you reach the LaTeX errors detected in the log file
  • by clicking on the number of a line in the log file, the cursor jumps to the corresponding line in the editor
  • Asymptote support
  • “Forward/Inverse search” support with dvi viewer
  • an integrated LaTeX to html conversion tool

Get Texmaker 2.1 [>>]

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