JLatexEditor

JLatexEditor is a cross-platform open source LaTeX editor. The editor is in constant development. It is well-tested on Linux and Mac OS X, but has to be considered pre-alpha version, and only for experimental use for Windows.

Operating System Support

• GNU/Linux: yes
• Windows: highly experimental (not yet for production use)
• Mac OS: yes

The support for Windows will be improved in the next stable release.

Download

• installation: download the lastest release for your platform, unpack it and run the script jlatexeditor (or jlatexeditor.bat in case of Windows) to start the editor
• latest release:
  • Linux:  tar.gz,
    • Debian / Ubuntu: Include Debian/Ubuntu Repository,  deb Package
    • Arch Linux:  Package (created by Matthias Busl)
  • Mac:  tar.gz
  • Windows:  zip
•  older releases
• Source code

Documentation

• Manual
• for post questions please use the mailing list  jle-users

Screenshots

Features

• syntax highlighting:
  • red marking of undefined labels in \ref), non-existing .bib entries in \cite, and non-existing files in \input, ...
  • yellow marking of unused labels in \label
  • fast bracket identification (including highlighting of nested brackets)
  • user defined highlighting of latex commands and their parameters
• live spell checker (aspell and hunspell integration)
• multi-level completion of
  • LaTeX commands, environments, packages, and documentclasses (level 1 shows most frequently applied items, level 2 also the less frequent ones, and level 3 just all)
  • directories and files after \input{, \include{, and \includegraphics{ (level 1 shows only suitable file types, level 2 all files)
• completion of
  • bibtex entries after \cite{
  • labels after \ref{
  • referenced labels after \label{
  • package names after \usepackage{
  • environment names after \begin{ and \end{
  • document class names after \documentclass{
  • bibliography styles after \bibliographystyle{
  • tikz packages after \usetikzlibrary{
  • beamer themes after \usetheme{, \usecolortheme{, \usefonttheme{, \useinnertheme{, \useoutertheme{
  • words which have already been used in the document
• refactoring
  • command extraction: allows you to create a macro from existing LaTeX code
  • renaming of commands, labels, environments, and bibtex entries
  • realignment of table columns
• forward search and inverse search
• command templates and user defined live templates
• quick help for LaTeX commands
• LaTeX compiler integration
  • separate lists for errors, warnings, overfilled hboxes
  • jump to code position with one click
  • advanced latex output parser (we usually point to the right error location)
• diff integration (compare two files)
• version control
  • svn integration
  • local version history (see what you have changed in the last minutes, hours, and days)
• show document structure and allow quick jump to sections
• quick jump to element under cursor (file, label, command, environment, bibtex entry)
• fast file creation: just press alt+enter over an non-exsisting file after an \input{, \include{, and \includegraphics{ command
• shortcut for closing current environment
• new environments are closed automatically (if not yet done)
• automatic indentation when starting a new block (opening bracket, opening environment, continuing item text)
• support for scripting (Haskell) within latex documents (svn version)
• tree magic helps to create beautiful tikz trees within seconds (svn version)

• features by screenshots

In work

• multi-language support (partially available)

• for more features and fixed coming soon see the list of  open tickets for milestone 0.3

How to get involved?

There are several way you can contribute to this project:

• report bugs
• suggest enhancements or new features
• translate JLatexEditor into your language
• take part in the development (send a request to our mailing list  jle-dev or contact  Stefan Endrullis /  Jörg Endrullis)
• to keep track of the development or to discuss bugs and features join the mailing list  jle-dev

Source code

• checkout from subversion (user "anonymous" with empty password):

  svn co https://jle.cc/svn/JLatexEditor/trunk JLatexEditor
  

• build and run:

  ant runJLatexEditor
  

• Development

Credits

Developers that took part in the development of JLatexEditor:

•  Stefan Endrullis (team leader)
•  Jörg Endrullis
•  Rena Bakhshi

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the  GNU General Public License version 2.

Links

•  Wikipedia article about the JLatexEditor

JLatexEditor on Twitter

• Follow us on  Twiter @latexeditor