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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

Editing

style[Note 1]

Native

operating

systems[Note 2]Latest stable version Free (i.e. gratis)

AUCTeX Source L, M, W 11.87 (2012-11-30) Yes

BaKoMa TeX Home (http://www.bakoma-tex.com/)

WYSIWYG /Source

W, M, L 9.83 (2012-05-10)No (cost (http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/purchase.php))

Eclipse (By plugin TeXlipse(http://texlipse.sf.net))

Source L, M, W 1.5.0 (2011-11-26) Yes

EmilTex Home(http://www.emilstefanov.net/Projects/EmilTex/)

Source W 1.2 (2013-07-12) Yes

Fidus Writer Home (http://fiduswriter.org/) almost-WYSIWYG B 1.0-rc1 (2013-07-26) Yes

Geany LaTeX Plugin Home(http://frank.uvena.de/en/Geany/geanylatex/)

Source L,W 0.50 (2010-06-12) Yes

Gedit LaTeX Plugin Home(https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/LaTeXPlugin)

Source L 3.4.1 (2012-06-11) Yes

Gummi Source L 0.6.5 (2012-10-20) Yes

Inlage Source W 5 (2013-06-27) No

JaxEdit Home (http://jaxedit.com/) Source B 0.20 Yes

JLatexEditor Source L (M, W) 0.1.56 (2011-04-06) Yes

SCaViS Source L (M, W) 1.0 Yes

Kile SourceL (M,

W)[Note 12] 2.1.1 (2012-01-26) Yes

Editing Style

Native

Operating

Systems

Latest stable version Free (i.e. gratis)

LaTeXila source L 2.2.2 (Oct 08, 2011) Yes

LatexLab (http://latexlab.org) Source B ? Yes

Latexian (http://tacosw.com/latexian/) Source M 1.0.6 No (cost (http://tacosw.com/pricingchart.php)

Sublime Text (By plugin LaTeXing(http://www.latexing.com))

Source L, M, W 0.5 Yes

LEd Source W 0.53 (2009-10-09) Yes

LyX WYSIWYM L, M, W 2.0.3 (2012-3-1) Yes

MeWa Source W 1.4.0 (2007-06-06) Yes

Notepad++ Source W 6.3.3 (2013-05-05) Yes

Scientific WorkPlace WYSIWYM W 5.5No (cost

(http://www.mackichan.com/products/pricing.html)

ShareLaTeX Home(https://www.sharelatex.com/)

Source B n/a Yes

TeXCoding Home(http://www.dfordsoft.com/cs/tex-index.htm)

Source W 2010.3No (cost

(http://www.dfordsoft.com/cs/tex_buy.htm)

Editing style

Native

operating

systems

Latest stable version Free (i.e. gratis)

Texmaker Source L, M, W 3.5.2 (2012-11-02) Yes

TeXnicCenter Source W2.02 Stable (September 29, 2013) [±] (//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?

title=Template:Latest_stable_software_release/TeXnicCenter&action=edit)Yes

Texpad Source M, iOS 1.4.7/1.4.7 (2013-2-19) No

TeXShop Source M 3.11 (2012-06-06) Yes

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TeXstudio Source L, W, M 2.5.2 (2013-01-08) Yes

TeXworks Source L, M, W 0.4[4] Yes

RTextDoc (http://jwork.org/rtextdoc) Source M, iOS, W, L(Java enabled)

1.1 (2013-10-19) No

Verbosus Source

B, A[5]

, iOS[6] 3.7 Yes[7]

Vim with plugin vim-latexsuite Source L, M, W 7.3.555 Yes

WinEdt Home (http://www.winedt.com/) Source W 8.0 (2013-05-13)No (cost

(http://www.winedt.com/registration.html#Tables)

Winefish Source L 1.3.3 Yes

WinShell Source W 3.3.1.12 Yes

writeLaTeX Home (https://www.writelatex.com/) Source B n/a Yes

Editing Style

Native

Operating

Systems

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 latexcode)

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 usingDDE

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 processorsComparison of text editors

Comparison of desktop publishing software

References

1. ^ "Fidus GitHub Repo" (https://github.com/fiduswriter/fiduswriter).

2. ^ User:rgbpe; Ubuntu Forums; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7841972#post7841972

3. ^ TeXnicCenter Development Forum: Problems with Undo (http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1449)

4. ^ TeXworks 0.4 released on March 21, 2011 for Windows and Linux (http://www.tug.org/texworks/)

5. ^ "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 serviceavailable 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 LaTeXservice 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 typefor free). Additional costs arise if you decide that you don't want this restriction and explicitly purchase its removal."

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