Texmaker is a
cross-platform
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open-source
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LaTeX
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In nature, latex is found as a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants (angiosperms ...
editor with an integrated
PDF
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...
viewer. It is entirely a
Qt app. Texmaker supports
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
,
macOS
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and
Windows
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systems and integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX.
Features
The editor includes full
Unicode
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support, inline spell checking, auto-completion,
code folding
Code or text folding, or less commonly holophrasting, is a feature of some graphical user interfaces that allows the user to selectively hide ("fold") or display ("unfold") parts of a document. This allows the user to manage large amounts of text ...
and rectangular block selection.
Regular expressions
A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp; sometimes referred to as rational expression) is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern in text. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or ...
are also supported for the find-and-replace actions.
Texmaker includes wizards for the following tasks:
* Generate a new document or a letter or a tabular environment.
* Create tables, tabulars, figure environments, and so forth.
* Export a LaTeX document via TeX4ht (
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
or
ODT format).
Some of the LaTeX tags and mathematical symbols can be inserted in one click and users can define an unlimited number of snippets with keyboard triggers.
Texmaker automatically locates errors and warnings detected in the log file after a compilation.
The integrated
PDF
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viewer supports continuous, rotation and presentation mode. Direct and reverse synchronization between source TeX files and the resulting PDF file is supported via the
SyncTeX Inverse search (also called "reverse search")
on sourceforge.net is a feature of some non-interactive typesetting programs, such as ...
support.
The
Asymptote
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graphics language is also fully supported by Texmaker (for both editing and compilation).
See also
*
Comparison of TeX editors
The following is a comparison of TeX editors.
Table of editors
See also
* Formula editor
* Comparison of word processors
* Comparison of text editors
* Comparison of desktop publishing software
* List of TeX extensions
Notes and refere ...
References
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External links
Texmaker websiteOpenOffice.Org dictionariesLaTeX-Community - Texmaker
{{TeX editors
Free TeX editors
Linux TeX software
TeX editors that use Qt