Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes:
> That sounds like a thoroughly bad idea. It is true that sometimes you
> can edit .lyx files with an editor, but that is only because of
> limitations in LyX. IMHO the best view of .lyx files is that they
> should be treated as "hackable" binary files.
(I assume that you mean "editing a LyX file by hand" is a bad idea
rather than "having a syntax file for LyX files".)
Why? I do this all the time (with care, of course). When I need to
change 75 instances of "my_images.eps" to "my_images.tif", etc. Or
whenever I need to do any search-and-replace that involves ERTs --
let's say, for example, that I want to replace all references to
"Tiros-Translations" with "Tiros-\hspace{-0.1em}Translations" -- or is
this now possible from within LyX in newer versions?
-Kevin
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Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Hi folks, I come from a purely humanities background, and the interesting thing about what has been said here is that, the more I use lyx, the more I realise that I need to know tex/latex. For that reason I am now patiently going through beginners latex books, using gedit- I am not yet ready to face emacs+auctex. (I use emacs only for the most basic of editing when X won't behave and I need to use a console to fix it). This list and the issues discussed on it have brought me to the realisation that I actually need to learn latex in order to make the best use of lyx. Per haps I may eventually cease using lyx, but I doubt it: lyx has replaced all "normal" word processors in my life: the quality of it's output on the printed page, and in other formats, is infinitely superior to any other writing tool I have used. Knowing latex more deeply can only improve my use of it. :-) Generally, a big thank you to everyone on this list, because just reading through your comments is an invaluable learning experience for me. And, of course, to the lyx developers, latex authors, Donald Knuth,and is there anyone I have forgotten? (Of course there is!) Cheers Bruce On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:27 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote: > > [...] In fact I am liking the > > Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working > > on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would > > never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, > > and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those > > who don't). > > Thanks for saying this. I had been feeling, in a funny kind of way, guilty > because I've also been using Emacs et al. almost exclusively for a while now > despite being a long time LyX user (but a longer time LaTeX user, I must > admit). What's done it for me, at the moment, is reftex which provides an > easier interface to references for somebody like me that does not like using > the mouse. > > But I still think LyX is absolutely fantastic and it's my first port-of-call > when I can't remember how to do something in LaTeX!! > > cheers, > eric
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Uwe Stöhr writes: | > the next version of the windows installer will have support for | > editors with which LaTeX-files can be viewed with highlighted syntax. | | A side question -- does anyone know of further developments of a (vim) | syntax file for the LyX file format? Someone had posted the beginnings | of one a while ago. That sounds like a thoroughly bad idea. It is true that sometimes you can edit .lyx files with an editor, but that is only because of limitations in LyX. IMHO the best view of .lyx files is that they should be treated as "hackable" binary files. -- Lgb
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote: > [...] In fact I am liking the > Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working > on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would > never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, > and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those > who don't). Thanks for saying this. I had been feeling, in a funny kind of way, guilty because I've also been using Emacs et al. almost exclusively for a while now despite being a long time LyX user (but a longer time LaTeX user, I must admit). What's done it for me, at the moment, is reftex which provides an easier interface to references for somebody like me that does not like using the mouse. But I still think LyX is absolutely fantastic and it's my first port-of-call when I can't remember how to do something in LaTeX!! cheers, eric -- Eric S. Fraga, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL, London ***.*..**.*.*...***.***.*...*...***.*...
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Jack M. Lyon wrote: Do you know other editors that offer syntax-highlighting for LaTeX and run on Windows? Thanks for the lists of programs. I've now built in support for the following editors: jEdit, PSPad, WinShell, ConTEXT, Crimson Editor, Vim, TeXnicCenter, LaTeXEditor, WinEdt, LEd, WinTeX, (notepad) If no editor is found notepad will be used as viewer for LaTeX. regards Uwe
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting Jack M. Lyon wrote: Does Kile and Emacs easily run under windows, I mean do they have an own win-installer? many thanks regards Uwe Emacs and Xemacs have their own Windows installers and can be used to program in several languages and send email. Kile doesn't run natively on Windows, but perhaps with Cygwin.
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Jack M. Lyon wrote: Does Kile and Emacs easily run under windows, I mean do they have an own win-installer? many thanks regards Uwe IIRC, texmaker is a Windows Kile-like editor. There are versions of Emacs out there that are precompiled with AUCTeX and preview-latex (actually, one and the same thing in the latest version). I have it running under Windows XP SP2 and it works quite well as long as I don't try to preview in PDFLaTeX mode. Installation was easy, I just had to run an executable. In fact I am liking the Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those who don't). To get the precompiled Emacs (I have 22.0.50) with AUCTeX (I have 11.81, but 11.82 is ready, I believe) you can Google emacs+auctex-w32. I just did it, and found this mirror: http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/gnu/alpha/gnu/auctex/ Hope this helps. To correct myself, installation is even easier. I just had to unzip a directory, and then emacs runs by executing "runemacs" from the bin subdirectory of that directory.
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Jack M. Lyon wrote: Does Kile and Emacs easily run under windows, I mean do they have an own win-installer? many thanks regards Uwe IIRC, texmaker is a Windows Kile-like editor. There are versions of Emacs out there that are precompiled with AUCTeX and preview-latex (actually, one and the same thing in the latest version). I have it running under Windows XP SP2 and it works quite well as long as I don't try to preview in PDFLaTeX mode. Installation was easy, I just had to run an executable. In fact I am liking the Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those who don't). To get the precompiled Emacs (I have 22.0.50) with AUCTeX (I have 11.81, but 11.82 is ready, I believe) you can Google emacs+auctex-w32. I just did it, and found this mirror: http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/gnu/alpha/gnu/auctex/ Hope this helps.
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
There are probably others out there as well. Context: http://www.context.cx/ PSPad: http://www.pspad.com/ NEdit (via CygWin): http://www.nedit.org/ -- Mael Hilléreau
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
On Friday 03 February 2006 09:19, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Does Kile and Emacs easily run under windows, I mean do they have an own > win-installer? > > many thanks > regards Uwe I believe Emacs works ok under windows but requires some major hocus pocus to install it. As for Kile... oh dear. You would need at least kde-libs, kde-base and kde-graphics upon a cygwin environment. Now that probably doesn't come easy at all...
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Does Kile and Emacs easily run under windows, I mean do they have an own win-installer? Kile is *nix and MAC GUI Herbert
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Jack M. Lyon wrote: Does Kile and Emacs easily run under windows, I mean do they have an own win-installer? many thanks regards Uwe
RE: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Uwe Stoehr wrote: > Do you know other editors that offer syntax-highlighting for LaTeX and > run on Windows? Crimson Editor: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Scintilla Text Editor: http://www.scintilla.org LaTeX Editor: http://www.latexeditor.org/ Kile: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ LaTeXEditor: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/pg03053527/latexeditor/ Texmaker: http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ Emacs: http://www.math.aau.dk/~dethlef/Tips/introduction.html Nirvana Editor: http://nedit.gmxhome.de/latexmode.html Texmaker: http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html WinTeX: http://www.tex-tools.de/cms/ LaTexMng: http://www.latexsoft.com/latexmng.htm TeXShell: http://www.projectory.de/texshell/ WinShell: http://www.winshell.de/ There are probably others out there as well. Best wishes, Jack M. Lyon ___ The EDITORIUM Microsoft Word Add-Ins for Publishing Professionals http://www.editorium.com ___ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:56 PM > To: LyX-Users > Subject: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting > > > Hello LyXers, > > the next version of the windows installer will have support > for editors > with which LaTeX-files can be viewed with highlighted syntax. > Currently > I have built in support for jEdit, WinShell, TeXnicCenter, > WinEdt, and > WinTeX. > The first editor that is found on the system will be set as > viewer for > LaTeX-files within LyX. > > Do you kow other editors that offer syntax-highlighting for LaTeX and > run on Windows? > > thanks and regards > Uwe >
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Uwe Stöhr writes: > the next version of the windows installer will have support for > editors with which LaTeX-files can be viewed with highlighted syntax. A side question -- does anyone know of further developments of a (vim) syntax file for the LyX file format? Someone had posted the beginnings of one a while ago. -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations
