Tobias Schoel wrote:
I wouldn't recommend anything other than kile for linux users. for me it offers the fastest way of texing. I tried emacs when we got the task of learning and testing a bit of lisp in university, but I didn't get the feeling "I'm becoming better and using this program seems to be an improvement." soon enough. That's why it should be mentioned but not recommenend for beginners: It's a paedagogical rule: don't change content and form simultaneously. (German speakers can read: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proaktive_Hemmung )
I've tried to stay out of this, but I can't :-( The choice of editor is an intensely personal one, and all that a document such as XeLshort should say is "Use your preferred editor so long as it is capable of handling Unicode; editors that we know can handle Unicode successfully are listed in Appendix <whatever>." ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex