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Can anyone suggest me a good latex editor (GUI) for RedHat LInux. I have tex installed on my machine which is fine for compiling documents in command line mode, but without a GUI editor (with code completion facility) it is really difficult to draft a new tex document.
I have looked at Kile and I am not able to install it on my Redhat machine despite repeated attempts. Also two of the most popular GUI latex editors - Texnic center and Led don't have Linux versions :-(
Have you tried Texmaker? From what I see here it should be available into the RH repositories.
How about emacs with YaTeX mode though it's not a GUI for LaTeX? YaTeX provides a completion functionality for TeX commands. Emacs also has the dynamic abbreviation functionality (bound to Meta-/ key sequence by default) for any word in your text file. You can also customize emacs to invoke shell commands. Unless you definitely want to click a button to compile a LaTeX document, I think this may be a good option.
YaTeX Web site
http://www.yatex.org/
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I am a junior programmer and beginning web developer seeking to build a reasonable developement enviroment under windows 8. I bought a new computer a few days ago and for a bunch of different reasons i'm stuck in Win8 for a while to come (let's not get into the specifics of that).
From what I have found on the net, developing in the middle of Windows is at best not worth it, so I'm seeking to set some kind of VM running a unix system. I can hanlde the setup itself, but i'm a bit lost at what ind of VM-ware system i should set up.
I want a unix (i'm thinking Fedora) system with packet manager and terminal but also a graphical text editor and the option of storing(using) files on my windows filesystem.
Do anyone have a suggestion about what kind of system i should consider?
Thanks in advance.
Ruby on Windows is ok, but VM is the way to go.
Here's my write up on how to get VM on Windows
Go all the way down to the section on Windows.
Once you install Ubuntu VM on Windows, follow the Ubuntu section in getting Ruby.
Vagrant is what you want. They changed the logo from an actual vagrant to a synthetic V :-(
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There are many IDE's available today for the Ruby on Rails application development. I am somewhat confused after reading that which IDE should I use for ubuntu at present. The articles are older then a year now which gives the IDE information to use for. At work I am using eclipse IDE which is working well for now. But at home, I am thinking if there is anything better to use which is more friendly and easy for development now.
Let's say if you're not familiar with ancient editors like emac or vim. You can try Sublime Text 2
I would vote for vim with plugins that work perfectly with rails:
1- vim-rails : Which is really great with rails projects. Allows you to navigate pretty quickly between views, controllers and models. Using rakes and rails generators within vim itself. https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails
2- NERDTree : for folders and files. https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
3- Fugitive if you are using git this is a really awesome plugin. https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
The beautiful thing about vim is that you can customise it as you like. You could add ruby autocomplete and exuberant ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/) to quickly navigate between functions.
Vim has a steep learning curve but once you get used to it, it will add up huge benefit. Vimcasts is a great source to learn it. http://vimcasts.org/
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I recently switched to a Mac. I am trying to choose between Textmate 1.5 and Sublime Text 2 for Ruby on Rails development. I know these editors have a great deal in common from my own testing. I don't however see many differences as of yet. If you have experiance with both, can you please make a list of the differences between the two?
Please make any list without subjective comments as I'm not looking to start a flame war; only factual differences. There are many resources that list similarities -- please focus on the differences.
Thank you.
I come form Vim and try both TextMate 2 and Sublime Text 2 for a while. I like them both, but for different reasons.
I'm pretty sure you can make TextMate 2 act almost like Sublime Text 2 by plugins and setting, or vice versa. And they both have tons of gorgeous themes/plugins/snippets. So I just try to list the 'out of box' and potentials difference between them.
TM2:
Open source
Fine integrate with rails just out of box.
Switching between files with hotkey follow rails conventions.
Can move project list to the left.
Install plugin and adjust setting by GUI.
Run rails test in text editor out of box.
More build-in wrapping features.
Complete word by [esc] and add snippet by [Tab]
ST2:
Cross plateform
Ability to imitate some Vim behaviors.
Adjust setting by editing a json file. Less intuitive for GUI user, but can source control and transfer it easily.
Switching between files by Ctrl-P out of box.
Complete word and add snippet all by [Tab]
A 3rd party nice package manager.
Please correct me if any error or missing stuffs. And I think the best way is try them both for couple weeks, know the possibility and tune one of them upon your favorite work flow.
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As far as I understand it (a few days of research here and there), there are two major TeX engines: pdfTeX and XeTeX. pdfTeX is the "standard", having been around since the early 1990s, renders straight to PDF, and improves on some minor formatting issues with original TeX.
XeTeX, on the other hand, also outputs PDF, can use any system font without complication, and can accept Unicode input by default. And yet for some reason it's not the default engine in any of the TeX distributions.
Do I have this right? Why is pdfTeX still the standard? Which do you use?
Xetex has many plusses when it gets to advanced font techniques on the ligature and character level (as well as a simple interface to use otf fonts) but on the other hand it has drawbacks when it gets to micro-typography on the page level. That is, in Pdftex (or Pdflatex), it is possible to use the microtype package which gives you a nicer margin and some other features concerning letter kerning and spacing.
Generally, most users of Tex/Latex won’t care much about these features anyway (and well, you can see that in the documents they produce); therefore I think neither side seems to have significantly more momentum; and therefore the standard settings are likely to stay the way they are.
(Until in an undefined number of years someone is able to and actually does merge these features…)
I use whatever texlive releases and Debian / Ubuntu package for my respective systems :) It seems there is a texlive-xetex package but I haven't used that yet.
More seriously, (La)TeX is now a standard and these things do not change overnight. And I am quite frankly quite happy with pdftex --- in no small measure because it can render latex files I have written over two decades (modulo the latex2e change of yore).
MacOs User -- I enable XeTex in TeXShop -- it's in the preferences. Sometimes I use XeLaTeX.
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I think the best part of flash is the possibility to create not squared user interfaces, so I like the idea to create desktop apps using flash. I know AIR is for that but it doesn't allow real access to OperatingSystem apis and dlls and the commercial options are kind of difficult to customize.
You can try ScreenweaverHX:
http://haxe.org/com/libs/swhx
It's the Haxe-based successor of the old Screenweaver. However, it's not as simple as the old version used to be. Most likely you need to take a look to the basics of Haxe and Neko, the 2 technologies it's based on.
There's another project on top of SWHX that it's called HippoHX. It aims to "complete" SWHX providing that extra functionality you might miss (simple ActionScript APIs and a GUI). However, it's in its early stages:
http://hippohx.com
DISCLAIMER: I'm the owner of HippoHX, so my point is obviously biased.
As far as I know SWHX is the only Open Source alternative at this point.
Try flajector. it's powerfull converter from flash to exe. You can to develop your application using AIR. And then you can convert it into desktop application .exe