Steph (crisis version)10h ago

Hey, fediverse hive mind. What are your favourite LaTeX editors/compilers for Linux? I don't need it to do anything very fancy, it's just for editing my CV. I am already pretty good at LaTeX and do not need my hand held. Currently running Mint, if that's helpful.

Boosts welcome.

Show threadCanageek
@astronomerritt TeXmaker or emacs with AcuTeX
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Show threadSteph (crisis version)10h ago
@Canageek Texmaker looks pretty good. I dislike command-line text editors and only use them when I have to, which I am aware makes me some sort of philistine. 😆
Show threadCanageek10h ago

@astronomerritt I mean, you can also just use emac as a GUI application, I only use it as a command line text editor if I'm logged into a different computer from mine.

In fact, for this specific use, it works better as a normal GUI application because it adds a lot of text formatting that's really helpful, I don't usually bother with it unless I'm editing a lot of equations but...

Show threadSteph (crisis version)10h ago
@Canageek I genuinely had no idea that GUI emacs was a thing and I am suddenly quite excited. Thanks for that!
Show threadaoanla8h ago
@astronomerritt @Canageek I mean, gui vim is also a thing (gvim), but gui Emacs comes out of the box, iirc
Show threadBlake C. Stacey5h ago
@Canageek @astronomerritt My approach for the past 22 years has been to write the .tex files in an emacs window and then run them through pdflatex on the command line. Basic, gets the job done.
Show threadCanageek4h ago
@bstacey @astronomerritt I use a button in simple situations, but often do compile command line using latexmk if I'm watching for errors
Show threadéric 🚲 🇪🇺 10h ago
@Canageek @astronomerritt
+1 for Emacs with the AUCTeX mode. Or even possibly using org mode in Emacs.