Talk:Comparison of TeX editors

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I started this table (inspired by the wikimatrix) and I hope others will help populate it. And correct any mistakes etc. Hopefully people will find it useful too. Thanks. Simplifix (talk) 23:15, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. I added a row for Editing Style. It may be that it makes more sense to have a separate table for WYSIWYM editors, but I haven't used LyX enough to be the person to create one. Theodore.norvell (talk) 12:14, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to fill in the Scientific Workplace column. I found some of the rows need more explanation.

configurable There are many ways an editor could be configurable. E.g. in Scientific Workplace there are 2 kinds of keyboard macros and you can configure the meaning of the function keys, not to mention being able to configure the WYSIWYM display, so I supposed it to be configurable.
inverse search I know what this means, but many would not. (Perhaps I should fix this my self.)
intelligent error handling What does this mean? (The word intelligent is really over used in computing. Perhaps there is a more meaningful phrase that would do better.)
parenthesis matching Matching braces isn't relevant to WYSIWYM editors. Likewise (largely) for matching \begin and \end. Scientific Workplace treats blocks defined by \left and \right as single objects for the purpose of selection (and also some blocks defined by \begin and \end, for example arrays), so I put "yes". Theodore.norvell (talk) 12:14, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for everyone's contributions. A couple of comments:

configurable indeed there are many ways an editor could be configurable, and if someone would like to think of a few, we could make a few rows on configurability into a separate table (on the same page)
parenthesis matching while I was mostly thinking of braces in writing latex code {...}, how many times has one seen things like f(sin(x), with a missing (or extra) close parenthesis for example, and parenthesis matching helps pick that up too.
By intelligent error handling I really meant the ability to find the error in the latex file. And to walk through the errors in the file (with a next error button), but if anyone has strong feelings on this one I don't!

Simplifix (talk) 21:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any MeWa users who can add info for it? PuerExMachina (talk) 04:29, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Should the table be flipped to match other comparison pages for software, with the software on the left and the features along the top. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.77.48.236 (talk) 06:38, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do you define "integrated viewer"? Do you just mean previews? For instance, eclipse has a preview option, but it uses external viewers for that. Thus should it be a "No" for eclipse? Sendrullis (talk) 16:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Missing software

GNU TeXmacs. Someone can fill in a row about it? 190.50.97.120 (talk) 19:44, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

widget sets?

might be helpful to indicate which widget set each program requires (where applicable). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.248.11 (talk) 14:56, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Single letter OS mnomics

I run L. You run M. Do you run B? What is B??? Ok, the truth here is that it's not intuitive. Could we consider writing out the OS names? Thanks.