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Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Environments 2 Suggested Software Suites? 2.1 Linux 2.2 Mac OS X 2.3 Windows 3 Happy TeXing!

Overview

Environments

We presently provide standard (current Red Hat) TeX and a state-of-the-art TeX (maintained by Victor) on coxeter. Using TeX on coxeter via terminal is cumbersome and slow compared to proper deployment on local machines. Our staff reports that they are often required to type a letter for faculty because faculty don't have easy access to e-stationary with proper departmental letterhead. Our committee should provide complete LaTeX authoring environments with local UofT resources that "just works" on three main platforms:

• Linux
• Apple OS X
• Microsoft Windows

Suggested Software Suites?

What integrated editor/viewer/LaTeX/BibTeX software suites should be design and support?

Linux

• Distro: TeXLive
• Frontend:
  • Kile - we have it
  • TeXworks
    • TW is under development for all platforms and is modelled after TeXShop. Trouble is we have x-64 RHEL Linux and AFAIK all attempts to compile TW on it were unsuccessful because as some experts say RHEL is not a true Linux (missing some libraries and some are obscure). Well we know that RHEL is extremely conservative like Fedora

some UNIX distros comparison One also needs to compile a lot of stuff including poppler before even attempting to compile TW.

• • • I was able to compile TeXworks on RHEL 6.1 with some extra epel development libraries added. We may want to move to 6.1 for all desktops and servers so that we can take advantage of newer packages. [Emile LeBlanc]
      • One needs to test
        • Editing
        • Processing - how it calls pdflatex
        • Previewing output
        • Synchronization source <-> Output
        • Scripting - it is a big deal but I never looked at it Victor Ivrii 17:39, 18 November 2011 (EST)
    • TeXMaker Multiplatform, compiled on many platforms, including Fedora - but not for RHEL! It looks like RHEL sucks - big time!

Mac OS X

• Distro:
  • MacTeX (TeXLive adjusted for Mac). Installs also GS and ImageMagick.
• Some front ends
  • TeXShop
  • TeXWorks
  • TeXMaker
  • TeXnicle
  • Latexian
  • iTeXMac
  • LyX
  • List of MacOX front ends Most Popular (included listed)

Windows

• Distro:
  • MiKTeX
  • TeXLive
• Frontend
  • TeXWorks
  • WinEdit ?
  • TeXnic Center?

Happy TeXing!