Texmaker 1.4 review

Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 745K Developer: Pascal Brachet

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Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.

Texmaker is a free and cross-platform program which runs on unix, macosx and windows systems.

Texmaker is a Qt program, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.

Texmaker runs natively on Unix, win32 and macosx systems (KDE libraries are not required).

Here are some key features of "Texmaker":
an editor to write your LaTeX source files (syntax highlighting, undo-redo, search-replace, ...)
the principal LaTex tags can be inserted directly with the "LaTeX" and "Math" menus
370 mathematical symbols can be inserted in just one click
wizards to generate code ('Quick document', 'Quick letter', tabular, tabbing and array environments)
LaTeX-related programs can be launched via the "Tools" menu
the standard Bibtex entry types can be inserted in the ".bib" file with the "Bibliography" menu
a "structure view" of the document for easier navigation of a document (by clicking on an item in the "Structure" frame, you can jump directly to the corresponding part of your document
extensive LaTeX documentation
in the "Messages / Log File" frame, you can see information about processes and the logfile after a LaTeX compilation
the "Next Latex Error" and "Previous Latex Error" commands let you reach the LaTeX errors detected in the log file
by clicking on the number of a line in the log file, the cursor jumps to the corresponding line in the editor
an integrated LaTeX to html conversion tool (for unix and macosx systems)

Requirements:
The development tools and files from the Qt toolkit (version >= 3.2) are required.

What's New in This Release:
Spell checker has been added (aspell is required).
The main pstricks commands can be inserted with just one click.
Brace matching has been integrated in the editor.
The support for the "[ ]" math mode has been added to the syntax highlighter.
A few bugs has been fixed (replace dialog, close event...)
The "html conversion tool" is now available on windows (only ghostscript is required).