Installing editor

Editors for LaTeX

There are a couple of options to choose for editor. A list of most popular LaTeX editors include:

• Kile (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux – best)
  • about Kile
  • how to install on Windows
  • how to install on Mac OS X
  • how to install on Linux
• TeXworks (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux – good)
  • about it and how to install
• Texmaker (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux – good)
  • about it and how to install
• WinEdt (Windows)
  • about it and how to install
• TexShop (Mac OS X – best)
  • about it and how to install

Editors for general usages

There are various text editors which provide general text editing for various purposes, including LaTeX, scientific language programming, or simple text editing. Some of the most popular ones include:

• Linux/Unix:
  • GNU emacs
  • XEmacs
  • vi
  • vim
  • KWrite
  • gedit
  • Atom
• Mac OS X:
  • Aquamacs
  • Sublime
  • TextMake
  • GNU emacs
  • KWrite
  • gedit
  • Atom
• Windows:
  • Notepad++
  • GNU emacs
  • vim
  • KWrite
  • gedit
  • Atom

Note

For those who are interested: like every sports game, there is a rivarly in the free software community called the famous Editor war. What is your choice in this long-standing rivarly competition?

Alternate options for editors, plus extra

• ShareLaTeX (Cross platform)
  • Online collaborative LaTeX editor (free for a single person use)
  • https://www.sharelatex.com
• LyX (Cross platform)
  • A good LaTeX interface that runs LaTeX for you and generates LaTeX documents
  • This requires LaTeX installation (see the next section)
  • http://www.lyx.org
  • youtube-lyx
• LaTeXiT (Mac OS X)
  • This is a good handy LaTeX tool to include math in your presentations
  • http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/17889/latexit
• There are many more general online-based platforms where you can do, not only LaTeX but also various different tasks in scientific computing.