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Comparison of TeX editors

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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

Native operating systems [Note 2] L, M, W W, M, L L, M, W W B L,W L L W B L (M, W) L (M, W) L (M, W)[Note 12] Native Operating Systems L B M L, M, W W L, M, W W W W B W Native operating systems L, M, W W M, iOS M

Editing style [Note 1] AUCTeX BaKoMa TeX Home (http://www.bakomatex.com/) Eclipse (By plugin TeXlipse (http://texlipse.sf.net)) EmilTex Home (http://www.emilstefanov.net/Projects/EmilTex/) Fidus Writer Home (http://fiduswriter.org/) Geany LaTeX Plugin Home (http://frank.uvena.de/en/Geany/geanylatex/) Gedit LaTeX Plugin Home (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/LaTeXPlugin) Gummi Inlage JaxEdit Home (http://jaxedit.com/) JLatexEditor SCaViS Kile Source WYSIWYG / Source Source Source almost-WYSIWYG Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source

Latest stable version

Free (i.e. gratis)

en es Proyectos Yes sustantivo : proyecto

11.87 (2012-11-30) 9.83 (2012-05-10) 1.5.0 (2011-11-26) 1.2 (2013-07-12) 1.0-rc1 (2013-07-26) 0.50 (2010-06-12) 3.4.1 (2012-06-11) 0.6.5 (2012-10-20) 5 (2013-06-27) 0.20 0.1.56 (2011-04-06) 1.0 2.1.1 (2012-01-26)

No (cost (http://www.bakomatex.com/menu/purchase.php)) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Editing Style

Latest stable version

Free (i.e. gratis)

LaTeXila LatexLab (http://latexlab.org) Latexian (http://tacosw.com/latexian/) Sublime Text (By plugin LaTeXing (http://www.latexing.com)) LEd LyX MeWa Notepad++ Scientific WorkPlace ShareLaTeX Home (https://www.sharelatex.com/) TeXCoding Home (http://www.dfordsoft.com/cs/tex-index.htm)

source Source Source Source Source WYSIWYM Source Source WYSIWYM Source Source

2.2.2 (Oct 08, 2011) ? 1.0.6 0.5 0.53 (2009-10-09) 2.0.3 (2012-3-1) 1.4.0 (2007-06-06) 6.3.3 (2013-05-05) 5.5 n/a 2010.3

Yes Yes No (cost (http://tacosw.com/pricingchart.php) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No (cost (http://www.mackichan.com/products/pricing.html) Yes No (cost (http://www.dfordsoft.com/cs/tex_buy.htm) Free (i.e. gratis)

Editing style

Latest stable version

Texmaker TeXnicCenter Texpad TeXShop

Source Source Source Source

3.5.2 (2012-11-02) 2.02 Stable (September 29, 2013)

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Yes Yes No Yes

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1.4.7/1.4.7 (2013-2-19) 3.11 (2012-06-06)

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TeXstudio TeXworks RTextDoc (http://jwork.org/rtextdoc)

Source Source Source

L, W, M L, M, W M, iOS, W, L (Java enabled) B, A[5]

2.5.2 (2013-01-08) 0.4[4] 1.1 (2013-10-19)

Yes Yes No

Verbosus Vim with plugin vim-latexsuite WinEdt Home (http://www.winedt.com/) Winefish WinShell

Source Source Source Source Source

, iOS[6] L, M, W W L W

3.7 7.3.555 8.0 (2013-05-13) 1.3.3 3.3.1.12

Yes [7] Yes No (cost (http://www.winedt.com/registration.html#Tables) Yes Yes

writeLaTeX Home (https://www.writelatex.com/)

Source

B Native Operating Systems

n/a

Yes

Editing Style

Latest stable version

Free (i.e. gratis)

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, W, B, A refer to Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Browser-based and Android 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 (e.g., double-clicking in dvi or pdf file brings up the appropriate line/paragraph in the latex code) 4. ^ On Windows some pdf viewers 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. ^ Starts up to previous state including the current editing point. 6. ^ Requires installation of extra package. 7. ^ configurable as an option of the Emacs editor 8. ^ a b Source editor only. 9. ^ Additional plugin Pdf4Eclipse (http://borisvl.github.com/Pdf4Eclipse) for preview of pdf files with SyncTeX support 10. ^ requires an additional plugin 11. ^ Can open/save files with UTF-8 encoding, but characters often do not appear correctly in editing screen. 12. ^ Support for non-linux systems considered experimental. 13. ^ Starts up to previous state including the current editing point. 14. ^ Notepad++ can execute Tex viewers; See GNU Octave, LaTex and Notepad++ (http://www.tlhiv.org/ma497/software/) for more details. 15. ^ A plug-in is required. See this list of plugins for Notepad++ (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Plugin_Central) for details. 16. ^ This will have to be set up manually. 17. ^ Starts up to previous state including the current editing point. 18. ^ LaTeX panel & Matrix panel 19. ^ Requires installation of extra package ( How to install spelling dictionaries for the TeXworks editor (http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/SpellingDictionaries) ) 20. ^ 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 (http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=194) ) 21. ^ Template file in resource directory ( Documentation of the code completion feature (http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/CodeCompletion) ) 22. ^ Starts up to previous state including the current editing point.

See also
Comparison of word processors Comparison of text editors Comparison of desktop publishing software

References
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ^ "Fidus GitHub Repo" (https://github.com/fiduswriter/fiduswriter). ^ User:rgbpe; Ubuntu Forums; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7841972#post7841972 ^ TeXnicCenter Development Forum: Problems with Undo (http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1449) ^ TeXworks 0.4 released on March 21, 2011 for Windows and Linux (http://www.tug.org/texworks/) ^ "VerbTeX" (https://www.verbosus.com/android-latex-editor.html). 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2010-07-28. "VerbTeX is a LaTeX Editor for Android devices. It uses the LaTeX service available at verbosus.com to generate PDFs." 6. ^ "iVerbTeX" (https://www.verbosus.com/ios-latex-editor-for-ipad-and-iphone.html). 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2010-07-28. "iVerbTeX is a LaTeX Editor for iOS devices. It uses the LaTeX service available at verbosus.com to generate PDFs." 7. ^ "Terms and Conditions" (https://www.verbosus.com/terms.html). 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2010-03-06. "The service is free to use (you are allowed to create four resources of any type for free). Additional costs arise if you decide that you don't want this restriction and explicitly purchase its removal."

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