TexShop is a great IDe with a good PDF previewer (I especially liked the loupe tool which magnifies by double or triple click the text which might be helpful if you usually display the whole page (or even double page)). The BibTeX integration with BibDesk might also be a big plus. I switched to TexMakerX some months ago and I am quite happy, as I was missing in TexShop a tree view for easier navigation in the large document. That's a big advantage of TexMakerX and it has some more very useful features. (However, it is not as leightweight as TeXShop nor is it a native OS X application).
– May 1 '11 at 21:24. There are more integrated environments for editing Latex documents, but I'm happy with a good general-purpose text editor + a good PDF viewer + some scripts. One nice thing is that I don't need to learn that many different tools; I can use the same text editor for Latex files, programming, etc. TextMate is fairly popular text editor for Mac OS X. It has a decent support for Latex, and it's easy to customise (e.g., you can define a keyboard shortcut that invokes a shell script that compiles your Latex document). Preview (part of Mac OS X) is a good tool for previewing PDF files that you produce with pdflatex.
My typical workflow:. First, open the source code in your text editor and open the PDF file in Preview (you can make this a bit more automatic by using some scripts).
Build MiKTeX. Windows; Mac; Linux; Docker; All downloads. To install a basic TeX/LaTeX system on Windows, download and run this installer. The current distribution is MacTeX-2018. This distribution requires Mac OS 10.10, Yosemite, or higher and runs on Intel processors. To download, click MacTeX.
Leave both windows open. Edit the document in your text editor and hit the keyboard shortcut that compiles the document. Then press cmd+tab to switch to Preview.
It will notice that the file has changed and it'll reload the document automatically, without losing the current location. In any case, download and install MacTex first to get started, as suggested in other answers.
Among others, it'll provide all command-line tools such as 'pdflatex' that you will need. I use for all my editing purposes, and naturally also for LaTeX. Together with the plugin, it’s very powerful. But of course it’s Vim and that’s not to everybody’s liking, and furthermore setting the Vim-LaTeX plugin up correctly is a bit of a hassle, in particular since the plugin by default maps a lot of keys to custom commands.
On the one hand this is helpful for writing said commands, on the other hand it’s very annying when you actually want to use those commands. For example, by default you cannot easily write a quote mark ( ') and some other characters. You might also want to check out Cassiopeia for MacOSX. It allows you to write your thesis comfortably without having to tinker around with LaTeX tags and finally generates LaTeX automatically when it comes to printing. This gives you both, a very efficient scientific word processing solution and LaTeXed output! It internally uses MathML Content Markup o represent your equations and has a bunch of other features that might or might not be of interest for you, e.g. An integrated plotting engine.
2018-11-30 The new release TeXstudio 2.12.14 is available. (see ) This is a bug fix release for fixing that GUI language could not be changed to all available languages via GUI. LanguageTool =3.6 is only supported with Qt5. Thanks to all translators on transifex.
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(see ) LanguageTool =3.6 is only supported with Qt5. Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available. 2018-07-06 The new release TeXstudio 2.12.10 is available. LanguageTool =3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
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For Ubuntu, a ppa is available. 2018-02-03 Active development has been moved to github.com. We are happy to accept pull-requests and any other help. 2017-07-25 The new release TeXstudio 2.12.6 is available. For Ubuntu 14.04 use Qt4 Version. LanguageTool =3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. 2017-03-27 The new release TeXstudio 2.12.4 is available. For Ubuntu 14.04 use Qt4 Version. LanguageTool =3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
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2015-10-25 The new release TeXstudio 2.10.4 is available. This is a bugfix release.
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2015-10-02 TeXstudio has been chosen as sourceforge. 2017-12-21 We have migrated our version control system from Mercurial to git.
The mercurial repository remains, but won't be updated any longer. From now on, you can obtain the latest source code from. 2015-09-16 The new release TeXstudio 2.10.2 is available. This is a bugfix release.
2015-09-10 The new release TeXstudio 2.10.0 is available. Linux builds are only provided for distributions which allow Qt5 builds. This mainly affects Centos 6, Ubuntu 12.04 and OpenSuse 11.3. 2015-09-10 TeXstudio uses the service of to reduce difficulties to translate texstudio in your mother tongue. Please participate to increase the number of tranlations.
2015-08-16 TeXstudio is one of the candidates for the SourceForge. 2015-06-29 TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the on sourceforge.net 2015-03-24 The new release TeXstudio 2.9.4 is available.
This is a bug fix release mainly for OSX and Linux. The shortcuts for moving the cursor get messed up if you use txs 2.9.2 with a non-english language and change something in the options. To remedy the problem, you need to edit.config/texstudio/texstudio.ini and delete the keys 'Editor%20Key%20Mapping%20New'. Sorry for the inconvenience. 2015-03-22 The new release TeXstudio 2.9.2 is available.
2015-03-06 The new release TeXstudio 2.9.0 is available. 2015-02-17 There are preview builds of the upcoming 2.8.10 release available for and (tagged as 2.8.9).
It also continues to be a this week. 2015-02-10 TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the on sourceforge.net 2014-12-07 TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the on sourceforge.net 2014-12-04 The new release TeXstudio 2.8.8 is available. 2014-10-26 The new release TeXstudio 2.8.6 is available. 2014-09-08 The new release TeXstudio 2.8.4 is available.
2014-07-25 The new release TeXstudio 2.8.2 is available. 2014-06-21 The new release TeXstudio 2.8.0 is available. 2014-03-16 The new release TeXstudio 2.7.0 is available. 2014-02-10 TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the on sourceforge.net 2013-11-02 The new release TeXstudio 2.6.6 is available to fix some bugs, e.g. The home/end keys. 2013-10-20 The new release TeXstudio 2.6.4 is available.
It fixes bugs and adds some features. 2013-08-28 We have migrated our version control system from SVN to Mercurial. The SVN repository remains, but won't be updated any longer. From now on, you can obtain the latest source code from. 2013-08-17 TeXstudio has been elected as SourceForge.
You can read an interview there. 2013-07-14 The new bug fix release TeXstudio 2.6.2 is available. 2013-06-15 The new release TeXstudio 2.6.0 is available. 2013-04-03 TeXstudio was one of the candidates for the SourceForge.
2013-03-18 TeXstudio is one of the on sourceforge.net, again:) 2013-02-04 TeXstudio has now been downloaded more than 200 000 times from sourceforge! 2013-01-08 The new bug fix release TeXstudio 2.5.2 is available.
2012-11-22 The new release TeXstudio 2.5.1 is available. 2012-11-13 TeXstudio is one of the on sourceforge.net 2012-10-17 The new release TeXstudio 2.5 is available.
2012-09-02 The new release TeXstudio 2.4 is available. 2012-03-27 TeXstudio got a new website design. 2012-02-06 The new release TeXstudio 2.3 is available.
2011-07-20 The new release TeXstudio 2.2 is available. 2011-06-15 TexMakerX is now called TeXstudio. 2011-03-19 The new release TexMakerX 2.1 is available which adds again new features and fixes some bugs. 2010-11-29 The new release TexMakerX 2.0 is available which adds new features and fixes some bugs. 2010-07-20 The new release TexMakerX 1.9.9a is available which adds new features and fixes some bugs.
2010-05-06 The new release TexMakerX 1.9.9 is available which adds new features and fixes some bugs. 2009-11-25 The new release TexMakerX 1.9.3 is available and fixes several bugs.
Also the old releases have been downloaded ten thousand times so far. 2009-10-26 The new release TexMakerX 1.9. Is available which adds several new features and fixes some bugs. 2009-05-06 The second release TexMakerX 1.8.1 is available which fixes several bugs and add some new features. 2009-04-03 TexMakerX 1.8 has now been downloaded one thousand times. 2009-02-22 The first release TexMakerX 1.8 is finished. Download Windows Platform Version Type Size How to install Vista/7/8/10 2.12.14 and double click on the installer exe Vista/7/8/10 2.12.14 and unzip the zip XP 2.12.14 and double click on the installer exe XP 2.12.6 42.6 MB and unzip the zip Linux We recommend that you first try to install TeXstudio from the repository of your distribution.
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