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[pizzocaro]

Hi to all,
my name is Marco and I am a Latex enthusiast.

I am a physicist and albeit I use Latex mainly for work, I started using it for everything should be typeset.

I am currently using Ubuntu, and my editor of choice is Gedit, with the Gedit latex plugin.

Looking forward to some good discussion on these boards,
Marco Pizzocaro

[localghost]

Reminds me of my time at the university when I started using LaTeX for writing my lab reports and later on my thesis in physics.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Marco,

welcome to the board!
I'm using Ubuntu too, I prefer Kile. I'm using gedit as well but only for plain text or for brief glances into sourcecode like gedit `kpsewhich tocloft.sty`.

Stefan

[pizzocaro]

Thanks!

I know Kile is a impressive piece of software but I am much more comfortable with Gnome than with KDE so...
Moreover the gedit latex plugin is getting better and better.

Regards,
Marco

[frabjous]

Just in case it wasn't obvious, you can run Kile under GNOME just fine. I do. You do need to install a significant chunk of the KDE libraries, and so on, so it's not a great choice if you don't have a lot of disk space (and I suppose loading them might take a little more RAM too).

The advantage of Kile is that SyncTeX forward/reverse search with it and Okular (at least if you install the versions in the Lucid repos) work out of the box. I've never got SyncTeX forward/reverse searching working with gedit either with the embedded previewer for the gedit latex plugin or with evince. (I have gotten it working between gedit and Okular, but as that still requires installing the KDE libraries.)

(Though I do think they will likely add SyncTeX support to evince soon.)

In the year and a half since I've been using Ubuntu, I've gone from using Kile to using gedit to using TeXmaker to using gummi to using TeXworks to using geany then back to gedit then back to Kile, and these days I often use gvim with the LaTeX suite (and often Kile). Tomorrow I'll probably start using AucTeX. The wonderful thing about linux is the choice!