TeX WYSIWG Editor

TeX WYSIWG Editor

[Arthur Schwarz]

Are there any TeX WYSIWG editors? In particular, ones that support managing
changes in a distributed environment (as a minimum)? Changing TeX documents
seems tedious (without a WYSIWG) if doing it by hand. Wordperfect and
Microsoft Word hid the font/formatting commands from the user to produce a
WYSIWG editor, hence the question. Is there support for the same capability
in the FSF environments for TeX.

TeX seems to be 36 years old (circa 78 in Knuth's TeX Manual) and it may be
a good thing to change to a language that contains a more attractive
interface, allows graphics/pictures, and provides the
multi-computer/multi-terminal support that TeX has. 



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Re: TeX WYSIWG Editor

[Eliot Moss]

On 7/7/2014 4:41 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote:
> Are there any TeX WYSIWG editors? In particular, ones that support managing
> changes in a distributed environment (as a minimum)? Changing TeX documents
> seems tedious (without a WYSIWG) if doing it by hand. Wordperfect and
> Microsoft Word hid the font/formatting commands from the user to produce a
> WYSIWG editor, hence the question. Is there support for the same capability
> in the FSF environments for TeX.
>
> TeX seems to be 36 years old (circa 78 in Knuth's TeX Manual) and it may be
> a good thing to change to a language that contains a more attractive
> interface, allows graphics/pictures, and provides the
> multi-computer/multi-terminal support that TeX has.

Yes, there are things out there.  It's kind of off-topic for the
cygwin list since it has more to do with TeX than cygwin.  Lyx is
one example; there may be others.

However, I have produced book-length works with multiple authors
using TeX (LaTeX actually) as is.  We used a subversion repository
to hold everything.  With some attention to how subversion commit
emails are configured, etc., it was easy to see what others were
doing, and the emerge package of emacs was helpful for going over
and adjusting edits made by others, etc.

For figures we tended to use Adobe Illustrator.

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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Re: TeX WYSIWG Editor

[Eliot Moss]

PS: Lyx was the first "hit" when I Googled
"tex wysiwyg".  :-) .... EM

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Re: TeX WYSIWG Editor

[Ken Brown]

On 7/7/2014 4:57 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 7/7/2014 4:41 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote:
>> Are there any TeX WYSIWG editors? In particular, ones that support
>> managing
>> changes in a distributed environment (as a minimum)? Changing TeX
>> documents
>> seems tedious (without a WYSIWG) if doing it by hand. Wordperfect and
>> Microsoft Word hid the font/formatting commands from the user to
>> produce a
>> WYSIWG editor, hence the question. Is there support for the same
>> capability
>> in the FSF environments for TeX.
>>
>> TeX seems to be 36 years old (circa 78 in Knuth's TeX Manual) and it
>> may be
>> a good thing to change to a language that contains a more attractive
>> interface, allows graphics/pictures, and provides the
>> multi-computer/multi-terminal support that TeX has.
>
> Yes, there are things out there.  It's kind of off-topic for the
> cygwin list since it has more to do with TeX than cygwin.  Lyx is
> one example; there may be others.

Emacs users can also try auctex (which includes a WYSIWG preview feature).

Another option is TeXworks, available from Cygwin Ports, but the last 
time I tried to use it (a couple years ago) I ran into serious problems 
that I couldn't solve.  See the thread starting at

   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-03/msg00060.html

and continuing at

   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00001.html

I don't know if anything has changed since then.

Ken

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