[Tuglist] front-end to latex

Sridhar M.A. tuglist@tug.org.in
Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:43:27 +0530


On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:53:47PM +0530, H.S.Rai wrote:
   > Today at 5:32am -0000 Asokan  K wrote:
   > 
   > >    Users  of KDE  on linux  can now  download 'kile',
   > >    an  excellent  latex  source  editor  and  project
   > >    manager. The features of kile include
   > 
   > Sounds fantastic !!!
   > 
   > Is any one can compare this with Lyx.
   > 
Have seen my colleagues use its previous avatar, KTeXmaker2. Kile is for
KDE3 (correct me if I am wrong). It is a good ide like thing for LaTeX.
But, if one is accustomed to vim/emacs style of editors (lots of
customisations, user defined macros, etc), then these things do not help
there. But for a beginner it helps a lot. 

Reg. comparision with LyX, there should be none :-) LyX is supposed to
be a WYSIWYG frontend for LaTeX. As mentioned on Kile/KTeXMaker page, it
will never be a WYSIWYG frontend. 

Regards,

-- 
Sridhar M.A.

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