From juanca#* at *#daphne.qf.ub.es Tue Mar 5 12:32:31 1996 Received: from daphne.qf.ub.es for juanca;at;daphne.qf.ub.es by www.ccl.net (8.7.1/950822.1) id LAA01211; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:35:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from malva.qf.ub.es by daphne.qf.ub.es with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA23087; Tue, 5 Mar 96 17:33:20 +0100 X-Mailer: InterCon TCP/Connect II 2.2.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <9603051736.AA14263- at -malva.qf.ub.es> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:36:14 +0100 From: "Juan Carlos Paniagua" To: "Juan Carlos Paniagua" , chemistry %-% at %-% www.ccl.net Subject: Summary: WYSIWYG LaTeX for Mac? Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed;boundary=part_AD622C0D00166B2F00000001 --part_AD622C0D00166B2F00000001 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline Dear CCL readers, Here is a summary of my recent posting regarding LaTeX for Mac. Thanks for those responding Original posting: > Does anybody know any WYSIWYG text editor for the Mac that > produces LaTeX code (something like wordperfect for the mac, that > allows viewing the codes in a separate window while you are writing)? > Expressionist generates LaTeX code, but it is not practical as > a text editor. Replies: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am not sure how WYSIWYG it is for LaTeX since I use it as an HTML tag editor, but Alpha has been very useful to me. It is available by anonymous ftp from cs.rice.edu/public/Alpha or from Kagi software. From: Abby Parrill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You might try "Alpha" editor. It functions like "emacs". Try From: David Weng ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't think such a thing exists. The closest thing that I know of is TeXtures, by Blue Sky Research . It recompiles the TeX document as you type, which is in many ways faster and more convenient than the usual edit-save-compile-view cycle that TeX requires. Still, you have to enter the TeX codes yourself; I guess it's the equivalent of typing into the WordPerfect codes window and having the formatted document updated as you type (but not as fast). The LaTeX codes for entering equations are pretty easy to learn and provide a much faster way of entering equations than Expressionist (which I also used for many years.) That, and the fact that TeX automatically numbers and cross-references your equations, tables, footnotes, and sections for you, are the main things that make it worthwhile in my opinion. Otherwise, it's a pretty poor replacement for a word processor; it's very painful to try to create a document that doesn't closely follow one of the basic styles that are defined for you. From: W. Thomas Pollard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is a commercial product called Textures, but I think it is WYSIWYG TeX instead of LaTeX, but I'm not shure. I myself worked with TeX. From: Blue Sky Research ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I used to use a package called Textures on the Mac that provided a nice LaTeX implementation. It was a commercial package. I don't recall the distributor, but perhaps you can find it on the Web. From: John Woods or ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --part_AD622C0D00166B2F00000001--