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Features

The LaTeXEditor was born because I have some wishes for an editing tool for LaTeX, but the existing popular tools were not able to fulfill my wishes, that's why I wrote my own.

The LaTeXEditor is FREE and open-source, it has the following features:

• Styling LaTeX/TeX keywords, commands, comments, etc., in colors and fonts.
• Spelling checker (uses GNU Aspell). Including wrong spelling highlighting, suggestion and replacement on right-click popup menu. Now supports three English dictionaries (EN_US, EN_GB, and EN_CA).
• Automatic configuration of LaTeX commands (latex, bibtex, makeindex) and viewers (dvi viewer, ps viewer, pdf viewer).
• Capture LaTeX commands output, highlight error and warning messages, count number of error/warnings.
• Line number display on page side, current line background highlighting.
• Text wrap mode and wrap indent.
• Editing multiple documents, i.e., Multiple Document Interface (MDI) support.
• And most of all, a rather clean interface. In Full screen mode, you can hide everything other than the text you're working on.

What's New

16-Jan-2005 - New feature and bug-fixing build 20050116 of Release 1.2.1

• Codepage support for double-byte languages such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
• Minor bug fixes of key mapping and activiation of splitted view.

Screen Shots

With LaTeX building tools, LaTeX output capture and error highlighting:	Spelling checker in action and floating symbol bar and Replace dialog box:

System Requirements

• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP operating system
• A LaTeX distribution. MikTex is recommended, on which most tests are performed
• PostScript (PS) viewer (optional). GSView is recommended.
• PDF viewer (optional). Adobe Reader is recommended.

Download

The LaTeXEditor Version 1.2.1 Build 20050116 Setup.exe (1,652K)

The LaTeXEditor Version source pack, to be provided when I have cleaned up the code.

Known Bugs

• Print Preview not implemented yet (output blank pages at this time), menu removed since build 20050109
• Run LaTeX Build when a process is already running may cause unpredictable behavior.
• On some platforms, the Configuration Wizard may lead to crash. If this is the first time you run the LaTeXEditor on your computer, click Cancel to quit the wizard and use menu "Options->Configure Tools" to manually set the commandline and parameters. This provides a work-around solution at this time. (Fixed 27-Mar-2005)

TODO

• Bug fixing
• Add option for single instance of the editor
• Add option for automatic create backup
• Customizing color schemes and more options of the Editor and export configurations
• Add tabbed bar to show all opened files
• Add multiple-file selection in Open dialog
• Improve spelling check performance for extra large documents
• Add option to install selected/additional dictionaries only or even without spelling checker
• Implement folding for LaTeX environments and sections/chapters.

Links

This software is based on:

• Scintilla Project and the MFC wrapper classes CScintillaCtrl and CScintillaView
• GNU Aspell (Win32 DLL library)
• TeXnicCenter, borrowed part of its GUI design.

The installation executable is built with the freely available, clean and fast NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System).

Other FREE editing tools you may find useful for LaTeX (some I had used before wrote my own):

• Crimson Editor, excellent general purpose text editor! And it's FREE! A Must See!
• TeXnicCenter, an open-source and rich featured LaTeX editor. I think it's too complicated and still a not-so-stable beta release. However, good part of it's design is borrowed.