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At the other -extreme we have <a href="http://www.texmacs.org"><i>TeXmacs</a></i>, -a document processor using -TeX’s algorithms and fonts for both editor display and printing. -<i>TeXmacs</i> does not use the TeX -language itself (though among other formats, LaTeX may be exported -and imported). A bit closer to LaTeX is -<a href="http://www.lyx.org/">LyX</a>, which has its own -editor display and file formats as well, but does its print output by -exporting to LaTeX. The editor display merely resembles the -printed output, but you have the possibility of entering arbitrary -LaTeX code. If you use constructs that LyX does not -understand, it will just display them as source text marked red, but -will properly export them. -<p/>Since a lot of work is needed to create an editor from scratch that -actually is good at editing (as well as catering for TeX), it is -perhaps no accident that several approaches have been implemented -using the extensible <i>emacs</i> editor. The low end of the -prettifying range is occupied by syntax highlighting: marking TeX -tokens, comments and other stuff with special colours. -Many free editors (including <i>emacs</i>) can cater for TeX in -this way. Under Windows, one of the more popular editors with such -support is the -Shareware product <a href="http://www.winedt.com/"><i>winedt</a></i>. -Continuing the range of -tools prettifying your input, we have the <i>emacs</i> package -<a href="http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net"><i>x-symbol</a></i>, which does -the WYSIWYG part of its work by replacing single TeX tokens and -accented letter sequences with appropriate-looking characters on the -screen. -<p/>A different type of tool focuses on making update and access to -previews of the typeset document more immediate. A recent addition -in several viewers, editors and TeX executables are so-called -‘source specials’ for cross-navigation. When TeX compiles a -document, it will upon request insert special markers for every input -line into the typeset output. The markers are interpreted by the DVI -previewer which can be made to let its display track the page -corresponding to the editor input position, or to let the editor jump -to a source line corresponding to a click in the preview window. -<p/>An <i>emacs</i> package that combines this sort of editor movement -tracking with automatic fast recompilations (through the use of dumped -formats) is -<a href="http://pauillac.inria.fr/whizzytex/"><i>WhizzyTeX</a></i> - which is best used with a previewer by the -same author. -<p/>Another <i>emacs</i> package called -<a href="http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net"><i>preview-latex</a></i> -tries to solve -the problem of visual correlation between source and previews in a -more direct way: it uses a LaTeX package to chop the document source -into interesting fragments (like figures, text or display math) which -it runs through LaTeX and replaces the source text of those -fragments with the corresponding rendered output images. Since it -does not know about the structure of the images, at the actual cursor -position the source text is displayed while editing rather than the -preview. This approach is more or less a hybrid of the source -prettifying and fast preview approaches since it works in the source -buffer but uses actual previews rendered by LaTeX. -<p/>A more ambitious contender is called TeXlite. This -system is only available on request from its author; -it continuously updates its screen with the help of a special version -of TeX dumping its state in a compressed format at each page and -using hooks into TeX’s line breaking mechanism for reformatting -paragraphs on the fly. That way, it can render the output from the -edited TeX code with interactive speed on-screen, and it offers the -possibility of editing directly in the preview window. -<p/>That many of these systems occupy slightly different niches can be -seen by comparing the range of the -<i>emacs</i>-based solutions ranging from syntax highlighting to instant -previewing: all of them can be activated at the same time without -actually interfering in their respective tasks. -<p/>The different approaches offer various choices differing in the -immediacy of their response, the screen area they work on (source or -separate window), degree of correspondence of the display to the final -output, and the balance they strike between visual aid and visual -distraction. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>preview-latex</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/auctex">support/auctex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/preview-latex.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>texmacs</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/unix/TeXmacs">systems/unix/TeXmacs</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/texmacs.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=WYGexpts">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=WYGexpts</a> -</body> |