Hi Kevin, Probably not for someone using Linux itself. But if there are people using it in a Virtual Machine under Windows (for whatever reason), it would work decently enough. Or if you want a version that does the syntax highlighting, which some of the text editors don't provide (I'm looking at you, leafpad :) ), then it's worth the trouble.
Plus, it gives us a chance to experience how to install and run applications through Wine (for those who really haven't tried it). In truth, I forgot about gedit and kate having the syntax highlighting (and I wasn't sure how well it highlights our customized LaTeX syntax). And when I opened the tex files in leafpad, it didn't have the capability (that I saw). Have a great day.:) Patrick. On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 17:06 -0500, Kevin Godby wrote: > Hello, Patrick. > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Patrick Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a couple of threads, people were discussing GUI-based editors for tex > > files. If you've got Wine installed, you can install Notepad ++ and it > > supports LaTeX highlighting. The only issue you might run into is > > whether it uses the same carriage returns (Unix or DOS) as the rest of > > the manual (but I honestly don't think that's an issue). > > > > If you want to check it out, you can find it at > > http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ > > Is there a benefit to using Notepad++ versus a Linux-based text editor > or LaTeX IDE? > > (It just seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to edit a > text file.) > > —Kevin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
