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# LaTeX

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LaTeX is a popular markup language and document preparation system, often used in the sciences. The current implementation in Arch Linux is TeX Live. See TeX Live for how to install and config it.

## Editors and environments

While LaTeX can be written in a simple text editor, many people wish to edit LaTeX source in a specialized environment. The following editors, which use various toolkits, are all available in the official repositories and can be installed with pacman.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of TeX editors.

### GTK+

- gedit — Supports LaTeX syntax highlighting and also (via gedit-latexAUR plugin) code-completion, compiling LaTeX documents and managing BibTeX bibliographies, it is included in gnome-extra.

  http://www.gnome.org/ || gedit

- Winefish — A very lightweight LaTeX editing suite. It supports highlighting and code completion, compile-from-editor, among other things.

  http://developer.berlios.de/projects/winefish/ || winefishAUR

- geany — An IDE that includes LaTeX syntax highlighting, building, and shows a list of environments/sections/labels in the sidebar.

  http://www.geany.org/ || geany

- gummi — Lightweight LaTeX editor. It features a continuous preview mode, integrated BibTeX support, extendable snippet interface and multi-document support.

  https://github.com/alexandervdm/gummi || gummi

- LaTeXila — LaTeX editor for the GNOME Desktop including support for code completion, compiling and project management.

  https://projects.gnome.org/latexila/ || latexilaAUR

### KDE

- Kile — A user friendly TeX/LaTeX front-end for KDE

  http://kile.sourceforge.net/ || kile

- Ktikz — GUI making diagrams with TikZ/PGF easier.

  http://www.hackenberger.at/blog/ktikz-editor-for-the-tikz-language/ || ktikz

### Other

- Emacs — Emacs (AucTeX), together with auctex and RefTeX, provides a complete, powerful, and customizable LaTeX environment.

  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ || emacs

- Emacs — Emacs (WhizzyTeX), together with whizzytexAUR, provides a nice live preview editor for Emacs.

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhizzyTeX/ || emacs

- Vim — Vim together with vim-latexsuite or vim-latexsuite-gitAUR can be used as customizable LaTeX environment.

  http://www.vim.org || vim

- Vim — Vim together with vimtex (which was recently renamed from vim-latex to vimtex and is a fork of LaTeX-Box) provides automatic syntax-based folding, omni-completion (for citations and labels), latexmk-based compilation and synctex functionality for zathura and mupdf.

  http://www.vim.org || gvim (needs --servername option for async compilation)

- TeXMaker — A free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows systems that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. Also check out TeXWorksAUR.

  http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ || texmaker

- TeXstudio — Fork of TeXMaker including support for code completion of bibtex items, grammar check and automatic detection of the need for multiple LaTeX runs.

  http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ || texstudio

- LyX — An advanced open-source WYSIWYM document processor.

  http://www.lyx.org/ || lyx

- JabRef — Java GUI frontend for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies.

  http://jabref.sourceforge.net/index.php || jabrefAUR jabref-gitAUR

- Zotero — This is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. There is a stand-alone version and a Firefox add-on available.

  https://www.zotero.org/ || zoteroAUR

- TeXmacs — WYSIWYW (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists.

  http://www.texmacs.org || texmacs

- EqualX — LaTeX equation editor with real time preview.

  http://equalx.sourceforge.net/index.html || equalxAUR equalx-bzrAUR

### Online tools

- Authorea — Online collaborative editor for scientific, academic, and technical documents.

  https://www.authorea.com/ ||

- ShareLaTeX — An open source online LaTeX editor. You can either run your own local version where you can host, edit, collaborate in real-time, and compile your LaTeX documents, or simply use the version hosted on the official website.

  https://www.sharelatex.com/ ||

- Overleaf — (Previously writeLaTeX) Online collaborative LaTeX editor with integrated real-time preview.

  https://www.overleaf.com/ ||

- cloudTeX — Social TeX in the cloud.

  https://cloud-tex.com/ ||

- Papeeria — Online LaTeX editor.

  http://papeeria.com/ ||

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