You can also have a look at the lyx project. But others tell me Texmaker works faster on their's. I prefer Kile it works faster on my system for some reason. You can work within an easy-to-use editor but have (most) of the power of LaTeX at your command. It is not strictly speaking a LaTeX editor, but it is a killer app. If your needs are only slightly less demanding, have a look at LyX. Each major paragraph is of the form and all indexing and cross-referencing is with reference to paragraph numbers. The other thing that LaTeX give me is the ability to write in numbered paragraphs as required by my publisher. It doesn't make indexing easy - nothing can do that!, but it makes it bearable. I need multiple indexes in my writing, and I would despair without Reftex. Reftex provides the indexing and cross-referencing muscle. With a little effort, the outliner is almost as good as the old DOS programs like Thinktank and Grandview.

It also sets up the outliner to work well with LaTeX parts, chapters, etc. All of the essential construcs are available by keyboard and by menu. Yes, there is a steep learning curve for non-emacs folks, but Auctex gives a really good LaTeX environment. I will add another vote for Emacs + Auctex + Reftex. If you think I should give another chance to one of the programs above I'll glad read your reasons. Maybe I'm being a bit restrictive, I know, but any suggestions are wellcome. I'm trying to use texclipse plugin for eclipse, and I find it pretty good, but eclipse consumes a lot of resources in my laptop so I'd rather use another solution. If not, find another editor for Linux (not WYSIWYG). If I can get properly running LeD with Wine this would be my ideal solution. So after this long story, this is what I would like to know: I tried to use LeD in Ubuntu with Wine, but the controls don't respond often and it gets hung up frequently. Winefish has still a long way to go in my opinion). I tried also Kile and winefish, but I chose Texmaker over them (Kile is not much better than texmaker, and it's a KDE application -I'm using Gnome. Texmaker is ok to edit files or create documents based on single files, but it doesn't have project features, or the possibilities to create documents from templates.

I can't find a latex editor for Linux which equals the features of LeD in Windows. I'm trying now to reduce my Windows usage to a minimum, and I have a little problem here. I've used Latex to write my thesis, using Miktex + LeD in windows and Tetex + texmaker in Ubuntu.

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