On 9/27/2010 7:45 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
Is there any editor with LaTeX support? How about TeXworks? I know that TeXniccenter does not support Unicode. (This is what lshort recommends) Another suggestion is LEd but it seems to be pre-Unicode as well.
I install notepad2 on every windows machine I use. In part because it doesn't require installing (download, run. no questions asked) and in part because it does everything a tex editor needs to do for me. That said: yes. TeXworks is decent, but violates the windows user experience of one window per application. It spawns two separate windows and that breaks the magic right there. On MacOS and *nix that's actually fine, but on windows if it's not all contained, it's a bad program.
However, there is Texmaker (http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/), which I used for quite a while. It understands unicode, and is set up to be UTF-8 by default for a few version numbers now. It also has a bucketload of separate build commands for doing different chains like latex + bable -> ps, or xelatex+makeindex -> pdf, etc. It also has a quickbuild function where you can input your own command sequence for customised builds. It was rather useful until I discovered that I was way too busy looking at "what things would look like" instead of first just writing the entire document and then just tweaking minor things.
(Unless I need to typeset extensive math, for which I will still fire up Texmaker, I just use a plain text editor these days)
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