I'm new to ConTeXt, coming from LaTeX. Are there any linux text editors that are at all useful for creating context documents? In the archives of this list, I read one or two discussions about making Kile more compatible, but the issue seems to have been dropped.
On Mon 20 Jun 2011, H. Hodges wrote:
I'm new to ConTeXt, coming from LaTeX. Are there any linux text editors that are at all useful for creating context documents?
There is a summary table in the wiki at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Text_Editors . Apart from the ones listed there is also http://code.google.com/p/textadept/ , which I believe has ConTeXt support. For what it's worth, I use GNU emacs / AUCTeX, which works well for me, though I don't really use many of the AUCTeX features. Hope this helps, Pont
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 23:19, H. Hodges
I'm new to ConTeXt, coming from LaTeX. Are there any linux text editors that are at all useful for creating context documents? In the archives of this list, I read one or two discussions about making Kile more compatible, but the issue seems to have been dropped.
You can use any editor, even with LaTeX syntax highlighting. I often use VIM (but you need to be comfortable working with it) which needs some settings (:set filetype=context), else you get LaTeX highlighting. Just take a look at the table on Wiki that Pontus pointed you to. Mojca
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:19:20 +0000 (UTC)
"H. Hodges"
I'm new to ConTeXt, coming from LaTeX. Are there any linux text editors that are at all useful for creating context documents? In the archives of this list, I read one or two discussions about making Kile more compatible, but the issue seems to have been dropped.
For what it's worth, I've tried Vim, Emacs, and SciTE, and eventually settled on TeXworks for maximum usefulness and friendliness. This might be different for you if you're already used to Vim or Emacs, which I wasn't. TeXworks is configured to use MkII, but there are instructions on the wiki to configure it for MkIV. Marc
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:35, Marc Trius wrote:
This might be different for you if you're already used to Vim or Emacs, which I wasn't.
As I said, if you are not used to work with those, it is a steep learning curve.
TeXworks is configured to use MkII, but there are instructions on the wiki to configure it for MkIV.
The latest TeXworks should have this fixed, but I have no idea how to build texworks on linux (for Windows and Mac one can download a binary). Mojca
On Tue 21 Jun 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
TeXworks is configured to use MkII, but there are instructions on the wiki to configure it for MkIV.
The latest TeXworks should have this fixed, but I have no idea how to build texworks on linux (for Windows and Mac one can download a binary).
For Ubuntu, stable binaries are at https://launchpad.net/~texworks/+archive/stable and development builds at https://launchpad.net/~texworks/+archive/ppa . http://www.tug.org/texworks/ has a link to openSUSE binaries too. Haven't tried any of them myself, though. Pont
On 21.06.2011 11:19, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:35, Marc Trius wrote:
This might be different for you if you're already used to Vim or Emacs, which I wasn't.
As I said, if you are not used to work with those, it is a steep learning curve.
TeXworks is configured to use MkII, but there are instructions on the wiki to configure it for MkIV.
The latest TeXworks should have this fixed, but I have no idea how to build texworks on linux (for Windows and Mac one can download a binary).
Mojca
Hi, I'm not a very experienced Linux-user, but I still managed to compile the TeXworks-current-snapshot on my (Arch-)Linux system without any problems. It was just the same as with any other application I wanted to build from source. You need some development packages for your Linux-distro (have a look at http://code.google.com/p/texworks/ ) and then just something like "qmake" and "make". HTH, Stefan
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