Plus points in it’s favour but not hugely important – however, it does support Lion’s full screen app feature and this makes it invaluable for long, distraction free writing sessions. The Texpad interface fits nicely with the Mac OS X theme as it’s a native client. Navigation – allow me to jump to any point on the document where there are headers so I can start typing in the right section.Commands – Easy to inset custom commands (though not as important now I’ve found Codebox.Easy to see log output – should something go wrong with the LaTeX typesetting, I want to know about it and how to fix it.Syntax highlighting – hugely important to me so I can see the difference between text and commands.It seemed to fit the bill but in what way and how?īasically, when looking for a TeX editor, I want the following:– That’s when I found Texpad and decided to give it a try (it’s a paid for app on the Mac App store but there is a free demo on the Texpad website). In the past, I used to use the cross platform Texmaker but after using the Mac for a while, I found it ugly (ok, so that’s not a huge reason to hate it) and cluttered and I was looking for alternatives that fitted in more nicely with the Mac theme. For example in my thesis, I’m using acronyms so I’m using the acronyms package and I also need to reference scientific data (as you’d expect!). I was testing out Mou, Pandoc and LaTeX and whilst it’s good for getting ideas down into cyberspace, it begins to fall down when you start introducing more complex LaTeX code into the documents. I’ve written before on part of my thesis writing workflow here.
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