GNOME LaTeX

{{Short description|LaTeX editor for the GNOME desktop environment}}

{{primary sources|date=April 2012}}

{{Infobox software

| name = GNOME LaTeX

| logo = GNOME LaTeX logo.png

| screenshot = Screenshot LaTeXila.png

| screenshot size = 250px

| caption = LaTeXila 3.14 under GTK 3.14

| developer = Sébastien Wilmet, community, The GNOME Project

| programming language = Vala, C

| latest release version = 3.46{{Cite web|title=Sébastien Wilmet / gnome-latex GiLlab|url=https://gitlab.gnome.org/swilmet/gnome-latex/-/tags|access-date=2023-12-05|website=GitLab|language=en}}

| latest release date = {{release date|2023|07|25}}

| operating system = Linux

| platform = GTK

| language = Multilingual

| genre = TeX/LaTeX editor

| license = GPL-3.0-or-later

| website = {{URL|https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/gedit/enter-tex}}

}}

GNOME LaTeX (up to version 3.26 known as LaTeXila) is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX documents. It runs on Linux systems with the GTK library installed.

Features

GNOME LaTeX has many useful features for editing TeX/LaTeX source code, such as:

  • Customizable one-click buttons to build, view and convert documents
  • Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands
  • Graphical lists of symbols for easy insertion
  • Templates for new document creation
  • Project management
  • Summary of the document structure
  • Spell checking based on gspell{{cite web |url=https://blogs.gnome.org/swilmet/2015/11/20/gspell-news/ |title=Blog post: gspell news |access-date=2016-03-23 |archive-date=2018-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114060144/https://blogs.gnome.org/swilmet/2015/11/20/gspell-news/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell |title=gspell website}}
  • Forward and backward search to switch between the sources and the PDF

However, it lacks some features available in other editors:

  • Split screen (available in TeXShop, [http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/ Vim-LaTeX (LaTeX-suite)], TeXmacs...)
  • Compare (available in WinEdt, [http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/ Vim-LaTeX (LaTeX-suite)], TeXmacs...).

See also

References

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