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What are the best LaTeX editors on macOS?
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Best LaTeX editors on macOS
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TeXPad
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Texmaker
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VS Code
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TeXstudio
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LyX
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TeXPad
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Incredibly user-friendly
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Way too buggy
Keeps crashing on Big Sur.
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LoveableCavillace's Experience
The new version is very confusing. The files that the previous version made, in this version are bad. It doesn't read the png files
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Accompanying iOS app with cloud syncing
You can write and compile LaTeX on the iPad/iPhone and sync your projects between your devices using different cloud services.
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Commercial
Texpad is a commercial software which costs $24.99.
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PioneeringHayasum's Experience
From the very first beginning and after a long time for searching the right tool to write a book, TeXPad is the right one for me. I tried a lot of TeX editors. TeXPad looks the most professional.
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Fast and real-time PDF updates
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iOS and Mac OS Only
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IndependentSjofn's Experience
Does not compile live with pdflatex.
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Native UI
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No code folding
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DiligentIshum's Experience
It was originally a great product and I loved it. However, since the last version it is nearly impossible for larger project. Does no longer read the old files etc. Unless they clarify these issues stay away.
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New Version is crap
It was originally a great product. However, since the last version it is nearly impossible for larger project. Does no longer read the old files etc. Unless they clarify these issues stay away.
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Maël Valais's Experience
Not the best IDE ever (lacks many things like multi-line indentation with the tab key, multi-line cursor like in VSCode or Vim, cross-files search and replace). Also sometimes the autocompletion isn't that smart (when you use [] in \includegraphics[]{, it cannot auto-complete). But the developper is active and fixed the bugs I reported within one week.
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It does not support utf8 coding
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Texmaker
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Texmaker
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Texmaker
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User-friendly
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ResponsiveBelobog's Experience
Can no longer be installed on new Macs because the developer is not in the list of approved Mac developers
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PerfectStheno's Experience
It is not allowed to download
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VS Code
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VS Code
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VS Code
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Editable diff
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TeXstudio
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TeXstudio
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TeXstudio
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1
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License:
GPL v2
Cross Platform:
yes
Operating Systems:
Windows, Unix/Linux, BSD and Mac OS X
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LyX
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LyX
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LyX
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5
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4
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WYSIWYM editor
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LyX is a front end for LaTeX and other systems
It can get confusing when using LyX if you get use to the system and mix up LaTeX with LyX commands or even ConTeXt
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Easy to get going
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Easy graphical interface
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Combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX
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TeXShop
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TeXShop
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TeXShop
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Free & Open Source
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ColorfulInvidia's Experience
I've used it for years. Koch tries to fix bugs if you send them to him.
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SincereWollunqua's Experience
I have used it for years and see no reason to change. No disparaging any other distribution. I am just very comfortable with this.
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Emacs
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Emacs
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Emacs
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Versatile
Emacs is great for everything.
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Learning curve is long
While it's better than it used to be, with most functions being possible through the menu, Emacs is still quite a bit different from your standard editor. You'll need to learn new keyboard shortcuts.
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Platforms:
Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Cygwin
License:
GPL-3.0-or-later
Multi Language Support:
Yes
Auto Complete:
Yes
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Total customizability
Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza).
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Sometimes the extensibility can distract you from your actual work
If I ever want to lose half a day, I'll start by tweaking my .spacemacs config file.
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Keyboard-focused, mouse-free editing
Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard. While true, I often find the mouse and menus handy for those lesser-used commands. An aide-memoir.
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Hard customization
For customization, you need to learn Lisp
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Lisp customizations
With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs.
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Takes a lot of effort to configure to fit your needs
It definitely can be configured (and even programmed) according to anyone's habits, needs and preferences. For example, imagine a text editor which can handle typesetting and displaying English, Russian, Japanese and Sanskrit text, supporting LaTeX publishing workflow, Common Lisp development workflow, Javascript development workflow, writing down thoughts and to-do tasks and also having a full-featured command line. But you will to configure/program it, and it'll in no way be either fast or pleasurable.
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Provides org-mode
Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list.
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Cross-platform
Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others.
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Enormous range of functionalities (way beyond simple "text editing")
Through its programmability, a very broad range of functionalities can be integrated in emacs, turning it even into a "single point of contact" with the underlying operating system.
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AUCTeX beautiful LaTeX syntax highlighting
Optional package that provides syntax highlighting, smart indentation and formatting, previews of mathematics and more.
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Interactive Shells
Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell.
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Has been widely used for a long time
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Support multi-line editing, multiple frame, powerful paren, crazy jumping style
Review the "Emacs Rocks" video.
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Ubiquity
Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files.
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Mini buffer
You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer.
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Free
Licensed under GNU GPL.
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Great documentation
With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties.
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Works in terminal or as a GUI application
You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface.
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It's also an IDE
You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed.
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Spacemacs
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Spacemacs
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Spacemacs
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Preconfigured Emacs distro
Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive.
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Platforms:
GNU/Linux, MacOS, Windows
License:
GPL3
Multi Language Support:
Yes
Auto Complete:
Yes
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Preconfigured emacs distro
Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive.
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VIM Keybindings with EMACS ecosystem
EMACS ecosystem and language support is best in show. The EMACS is a great IDE that was in search of a good text editor. Spacemacs makes EMACS have a good text editor.
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TeXnicle
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TeXnicle
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TeXnicle
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Archimedes
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Archimedes
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Archimedes
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Native Mac UI
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This is not a LaTeX editor
This is a Markdown editor that uses MathJax or KaTeX to render a subset of LaTeX. You will not be able to write a LaTeX document with this app.
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Platforms:
macOS
Multi Language Support:
Yes
Auto Complete:
Yes
Bracket Matching:
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Clever handwriting recognition feature
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Doesn't require a full LaTeX installation
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Easy to use
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