Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
emacs?

thanks
Jack

Jack Wang <wk1989@m-net.arbornet.org> wrote:
> Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
> emacs?

This is first time I hear Emacs being referred to as "graphical".
In any event, answer is "no". The only GUI for LaTeX I know of is Lyx,
and I don't Slackware includes it. LaTeX is really meant for Vi.

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On 2005-06-10, William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Jack Wang <wk1989@m-net.arbornet.org> wrote:
>> Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
>> emacs?
>
> This is first time I hear Emacs being referred to as "graphical".
> In any event, answer is "no". The only GUI for LaTeX I know of is Lyx,
> and I don't Slackware includes it. LaTeX is really meant for Vi.
>

abiword saves files in latex format....never used it though.

ken

On 2005-06-10, No_One <no_one@no_where.com> wrote:
> On 2005-06-10, William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> Jack Wang <wk1989@m-net.arbornet.org> wrote:
>>> Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
>>> emacs?
>>
>> This is first time I hear Emacs being referred to as "graphical".
>> In any event, answer is "no". The only GUI for LaTeX I know of is Lyx,
>> and I don't Slackware includes it. LaTeX is really meant for Vi.
>>
>
> abiword saves files in latex format....never used it though.
>
> ken

A clarification...in 9.1 slack, no knowledge about 10.1

ken

William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>Jack Wang <wk1989@m-net.arbornet.org> wrote:
>> Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
>> emacs?
>
>This is first time I hear Emacs being referred to as "graphical".
>In any event, answer is "no". The only GUI for LaTeX I know of is Lyx,
>and I don't Slackware includes it. LaTeX is really meant for Vi.

For vi? Yeck! Lets not scare the women and children, eh.

Maybe you should look into what Emacs actually is. The
interface to LaTeX is probably best described as graphical.

This is from the latex-preview package by David Kastrup on
sourceforge:

about:

The purpose of the preview-latex package is to embed
LaTeX environments such as display math or figures
into Emacs source buffers. By mouse clicking, you can
open the original text. After editing, another click
will just run the region in question through LaTeX
and redisplay the new results. It requires version
21.1 or higher of Emacs or XEmacs and AUCTeX.

It isn't as simple minded as Lyx, but it is hugely more powerful
too.

And don't try that with vi, because it just plain can't do it.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com

It's easy. :-) The code is pretty ugly though because abi does its
best
to reproduce the layout verbatim.

Mikhail

Jack Wang wrote:
> Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
> emacs?

The answer is "no", and I think this is a reasonable decision:
(1) TeX & friends is too simple for a complicated GUI,
(2) there are many choices.
Take a look at any tex-archive. texmacs and lyx are the first to
come to my mind. As for me, I prefer nedit.

BTW, one doesn't need X to use TeX since there is an (old) console
dvi previewer.

Mikhail

Jack Wang wrote:

> Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
> emacs?

No, but it's very easy to install one. I use LaTeX very much, and I'm 100%
vi. But lately, I wanted to introduce it to my girlfriend (<note for fleet
street users>and soon-to-be-wife</note>), but I couldn't figure how to
introduce her to vi (probably figuring she's end up saying "no"D).

So I tried Kile, a rather intuitive GUI frontend for LaTeX. No dependencies
except a running LaTeX environment. Oh, and yes: use KGhostview for .dvi
preview, or Kpdf for pdf preview. Best results.

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

Jack Wang <wk1989@m-net.arbornet.org> writes:

> Does Slackware 10.1 come insalled with a graphical Tex IDE other than
> emacs?

What else would you need?

Seriously - the XEmacs/Emacs - auctex - preview-latex combination is
pretty good.

http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

I believe preview-latex will be built in to auctex at the next release



For Vim there is Vim-LaTeX

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/

With gvim it gives you a useful menu!

If by graphical you mean something that gives the illusion that one is
not producing marked-up text at all, I once used Lyx for a big paper and
it was OK .....


hth



Glyn
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Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:
> For vi? Yeck! Lets not scare the women and children, eh.
>
> Maybe you should look into what Emacs actually is. The
> interface to LaTeX is probably best described as graphical.
>
> This is from the latex-preview package by David Kastrup on
> sourceforge:
>
> about:
>
> The purpose of the preview-latex package is to embed
> LaTeX environments such as display math or figures
> into Emacs source buffers. By mouse clicking, you can
> open the original text. After editing, another click
> will just run the region in question through LaTeX
> and redisplay the new results. It requires version
> 21.1 or higher of Emacs or XEmacs and AUCTeX.
>
> It isn't as simple minded as Lyx, but it is hugely more powerful
> too.
>
> And don't try that with vi, because it just plain can't do it.
>
.... but if someone has bothered to do a little work it's probably
possible with xvile and, maybe, vim.

--
Chris Green