TeXnicCenter
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 Free integrated development environment for LaTeX under Microsoft Windows |
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| Maintainer | Tino buying wine |
| developer | The TeXnicCenter Team |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| Current version | 2.02 Stable (September 28, 2013) |
| operating system | Windows |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | editor |
| License | GPL |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.TeXnicCenter.org | |
TeXnicCenter (TXC) is a free text editor for LaTeX documents for Windows .
Integrated functions facilitate, among other things, the structuring, formatting and text highlighting of documents - settings that are written directly into the text as markup commands in LaTeX . Nevertheless, TeXnicCenter is not a WYSIWYG editor. Only the LaTeX source text is still processed, but with integrated syntax highlighting . TeXnicCenter also offers easy installation and configuration, but requires an already installed LaTeX program package (e.g. MiKTeX ).
TeXnicCenter was written in the programming language C ++ . It is under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
history
In 1999 Sven Wiegand started developing TeXnicCenter and at the end of 1999 the first beta appeared . Further beta versions were published at irregular intervals; at the end of 2008 there was a release candidate for a first stable version .
Along with the new version, there were also new responsibilities for the project. Tino Weinkauf is now the official manager of the project, while Sven Wiegand takes on the role of webmaster.
The next publication took place at the end of 2012 with a beta version. The resulting version 2.0 stable came out in 2013.
Functions
TeXnicCenter is a text editor program that offers additional functions for working with LaTeX and is comparable to other integrated development environments for other programming languages. It holds LaTeX modules as icons or key combinations , so that typing in the sometimes long modules is superfluous (e.g. for mathematical characters, text alignment, font sizes, etc.). Furthermore, extensive project management is offered, and external programs such as BibTeX or MakeIndex can be easily integrated. The translation of the LaTeX source texts into DVI , PostScript or PDF is also controlled by key combinations or icons. If errors occur, you can jump to the error directly in the source text with a mouse click. TeXnicCenter has only supported Alpha 1 Unicode as character encoding since version 2.0, which was released in 2009 .
Collaboration with other software
The program was designed to work with the MiKTeX distribution. During installation, MiKTeX is recognized and automatically integrated. TeXnicCenter can also be used with other TeX distributions ( TeX Live , proTeXt). The respective standard program registered under Windows with the file extension * .pdf is automatically selected as a viewer for the PDF documents created.
TeXnicCenter can be set up for the automated use of the configured PDF viewer to display newly compiled PDF files. The PDF files can be opened and closed in the viewer via so-called DDE calls . The latter is necessary with some PDF viewers in order to be able to recompile the files. The DDE calls can be set up, for example, for Sumatra PDF , Adobe Reader or PDF-XChange Viewer. With the Sumatra PDF viewer it is also possible to implement the so-called “forward / inverse search”, where you can jump from a position in the source text to the corresponding position in the PDF output. You can also navigate in the opposite direction from the PDF document to the corresponding point in the source text.
See also
- other LaTeX editors
Individual evidence
- ↑ Files TeXnicCenter 2.02 Stable at Sourceforge (English), accessed on October 1, 2013.
- ↑ TeXnicCenter 2.0 Alpha 1; October 23, 2009 ( memento of June 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
Web links
- TeXnicCenter website (English)
- Project page at Sourceforge (English)