Note: I do-not follow the LaTeX community and development, most of what
I comment here is my own experimentation and answers and references made
by people answering to others in LaTeX-related support websites. Please
let me know if you find solutions that fix this problems (and the ones
mentioned
Thanks. So TeX is the backend and I need a frontend like Kile or any other
text editor?
Same with Okular. It automatically reloads documents.
There is also a useful feature called SyncTeX which lets you click in your
PDF viewer, which will take you to the source corresponding to that part of
the document.
To start exploring LaTeX you can use gummi editor
(https://github.com/alexandervdm/gummi). However, Emacs + AucTeX + RefTeX is
the best suite to produce LaTeX documents, but require Emacs intermediate
level.
You can use Texmaker or Texstudio (I think Texstudio is more actively
developed, but not sure).
I personally like to cheat using LyX.
There are thousands of options, of course, but I'd say the ones I've told you
are the most suitable and populars.
Install TeX Live (texlive for a decent selection, and texlive-full for the
complete distribution). You can use whatever text editor you want.
I think I heard somewhere that there exists a LaTeX software that lets you
see the actual output of your file in a window next to the editor window. Is
that correct and is it any advantage?
Thanks for your replies. I would like to emphasise though, that I am a total
beginner and I am looking for the 'best' place to start. So to rephrase my
question:
Which (La)Tex is the easiest to start with? (I don't mind shifting to another
application later on)
Thanks for your time and explanation. It helped a lot and I think I
understand everything until "However there are sorts of IDE or LaTeX."
Do you mean 'sorts' as in variants?
I'm lost about 'IDE'?
Emacs AucTex mode
I have decided that I want to learn Latex. Amongst other things, I'll use it
to write academic articles.
Are there any recommendations? Of course I only want to install floss, but as
a beginner I am susceptible to ease and convenience.
I think he meant sorts of IDEs for LaTeX. And sorts as in various, but I'm
not quite sure about that.
Anyway, IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment, this basically
means an editor specific for one programming or markup language. IDEs
commonly have features that make programming
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