To
begin with, I am not an expert in LaTeX. I have just begun using it to write
some books. And here, I am not writing about what is Latex or how to use it. I
assume you have some knowledge of it already and maybe trekking to find a good
editor that may ease your work in LaTex.
I
have just finished one book with tears. Currently I am writing several other
books. And a good LaTex editor helps you in a great deal. Here, I just want to
share my experience after using 3 editors: TexWork, TexMaker and
TexStudio.
TexWork
This one came automatically when I installed MikTex. It is
the basic form of latex editor. Thus, It does not help you much.
- Very
least Shortcuts are provided. You may have only Italic and Bold Shortcut,
to sum up.
- Very
least Autocompletion: you have to type \begin{document} blabla on your
own.
- It
is difficult to compile files as well.
TexMaker
It is after I got many errors and I feel it takes me much
time to write something like \begin \end etc. I think there must be some better
editors. So I tried TexMaker. It helped a lot!!!
- Shortcuts
are abundant: Ctr+Shift+M which replaces $$ and many more.
- Autocompletions
are great: when you type \beg, it would offer the candidates like
\begin{.} and then you type in the {} , say do, it will completes
\begin{document} with \end{document} for you at the end.
- Compile
and Build etc works like charm.
TexStudio
This one has all the TexMaker has to offer except that it
offers in a more convenient way such as more toolbars and shortcuts.
Hope it is of useful to you, and save you some times and
efforts.
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