Texmaker
Encyclopedia
Texmaker is a cross-platform
open source
LaTeX
editor with interface similar to Kile
. While Kile uses the KDE Platform, Texmaker remains entirely a Qt app.
As of January 2011, Texmaker cannot add new words to the dictionary (or ignore a word in spell check). For that capability, TexStudio (a Texmaker fork) can be used. The dictionary file used can be specified by the user. Like most other text editors Texmaker is equipped with a unicode editor to write LaTeX source files with syntax highlighting, undo-redo, search-replace. Some of the LaTeX tags and mathematical symbols can be entered with a mouse.
Another feature of Texmaker is creating tables, tabulars, figure environments etc. with quick wizards.
some other features:
Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
LaTeX
LaTeX
LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
editor with interface similar to Kile
Kile
Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX source code. It runs on Unix-like systems including Mac OS X and Linux with the Qt libraries installed.- Name :...
. While Kile uses the KDE Platform, Texmaker remains entirely a Qt app.
Features
New projects can be started with a wizard, creating letter, article, etc. formats. Texmaker is capable of inline spell checking.As of January 2011, Texmaker cannot add new words to the dictionary (or ignore a word in spell check). For that capability, TexStudio (a Texmaker fork) can be used. The dictionary file used can be specified by the user. Like most other text editors Texmaker is equipped with a unicode editor to write LaTeX source files with syntax highlighting, undo-redo, search-replace. Some of the LaTeX tags and mathematical symbols can be entered with a mouse.
Another feature of Texmaker is creating tables, tabulars, figure environments etc. with quick wizards.
some other features:
- Document and section templates
- LaTeX-related programs can be launched
- BibTeXBibTeXBibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...
database management - An outline or "structure view"
- Logfiles during LaTeX compilation and the ability to "step through" source errors that are discovered by the compiler
- An integrated LaTeX to HTML conversion tool