{"id":5948,"date":"2013-05-10T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2013-05-10T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T17:58:07","slug":"latex-editors-under-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/latex-editors-under-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"LaTeX editors under Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2285\" alt=\"Latex balloon\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yellow_balloon-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yellow_balloon-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yellow_balloon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yellow_balloon.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Recently, a friend of mine, who is also a mathematician, received a new laptop equipped with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29\">Ubuntu<\/a>, a version of the Linux operating system based on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a><\/strong>. He asked then about the best available free <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LaTeX\">LaTeX<\/a><\/strong> editor under Linux. There is no canonical answer to this question. I like to use <strong><a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/05\/emacsulation\/\">Emacs<\/a><\/strong> and sometimes <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/vim\">vim<\/a><\/strong> (old Unix habits). Many other editors have a LaTeX plugin such as <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/gedit-latex-plugin\">gedit,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/geany-plugin-latex\">geany<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/jedit\">jedit<\/a>, etc. There is also a bunch of LaTeX specific editors such as <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/texworks\">texworks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/latexila\">latexila<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/texmaker\">texmaker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/kile\">kile<\/a>, etc. For people not so familiar with Unix,\u00a0 I suggest to try <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/gummi\">gummi<\/a><\/strong> (for people familiar with Apple Macs) or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/texstudio\">texstudio<\/a><\/strong> (for people familiar with Microsoft Windows). People familiar with Scientific Workplace or Scientific Word may try <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/sid\/lyx\">lyx<\/a><\/strong>. This software universe is evolving so rapidly that this post will become obsolete very soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I take this opportunity to advertise <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/unstable\/x11\/xournal\">xournal<\/a><\/strong>, written by the mathematician <a href=\"http:\/\/math.berkeley.edu\/~auroux\/\">Denis Auroux<\/a>. This program has nothing to do with LaTeX, but\u00a0 is very useful : it allows to annotate PDF files!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a friend of mine, who is also a mathematician, received a new laptop equipped with Ubuntu, a version of the Linux operating system based&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/latex-editors-under-linux\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LaTeX editors under Linux<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":67},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}