Others ⇒ BaKomaTeX

[Epideme90]

I found a WYSIWIG TeX editor - which for LaTeX noobs like myself - is like the holy grail of LaTeX. It's called BaKomaTeX

http://www.bakoma-tex.com/

Catch is, they want $55 for it, so my question is, it worth the money? does anyone know if it is any good?

[localghost]

[…] Catch is, they want $55 for it, so my question is, it worth the money? […]

For this money amount you can buy »The LaTeX Companion« and so get an excellent book to learn LaTeX.


Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

By the way, regarding support in case of problems when working with BaKomaTeX or any commercial WYSIWYG editor -

• It's hard to explain problems when using a GUI (where did you click?) and hard to explain a solution (open this menu, that dialog, click bottom left, ...). In contrast, with LaTeX you show the problematic code and get the fixed or improved code in return.
• Nobody of us can support BaKomaTeX without bying it, for testing problems. Even if there's an evaluation period, I don't install a commercial bundle just for a quick test which I have to remove later.

Stefan

[Epideme90]

I see your point - I suppose if it was good i wouldn't need help though. heheh, ghost, WYSIWIG is a lot faster to learn than via textbook though - time may be of the essence *looks at clock - 44 Hours till hand-in*

[Stefan Kottwitz]

looks at clock - 44 Hours till hand-in

That's still within the evaluation period of BaKoMaTeX. Good luck!

Stefan

[Epideme90]

hehe - I'll let you know what I make of it.

[Pointertovoid]

Yes, please tell!

After losing many days just trying to install properly some LaTeX compilers and front-ends, I wonder if paying is a better solution...

And I'm in nearly the same situation: no experience with LaTeX code, hoping to save learning effort and time - after all, I'm happy with Namo for html, a very similar situation.