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by runbei
Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:49 am
Forum: Decision Guidance
Topic: Best editor for Debian.
Replies: 10
Views: 51132

Best editor for Debian.

This is very cool information - you might even say Frabjous day! Or Callooh! Callay! Thanks so much. I've copied your post and will check the alternatives. I had no idea you could customize Kile and gedit, the latter with plugins. I'd love to know which plugin to use.

Re "text-wrangling functions ...
by runbei
Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:31 am
Forum: Decision Guidance
Topic: LaTeX for magazine creation
Replies: 5
Views: 41580

Re: LaTeX for magazine creation

Gut reaction, fwiw: Why bother? Use the best tool for the job. For magazine production, Adobe, Adobe, Adobe...
by runbei
Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:29 am
Forum: Decision Guidance
Topic: Highly Configurable LaTeX Editors---A Review
Replies: 7
Views: 69579

Highly Configurable LaTeX Editors---A Review

A possibly unwelcome thought. Led sounds just great, and is it really so unfortunate that it's a Windows-only app? I don't think so. I use Linux Mint 9 mostly, and I've happily run the Adobe applications (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat) under Linux through Virtualbox.

Virtualbox is marvelous ...
by runbei
Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:03 am
Forum: Decision Guidance
Topic: Best editor for Debian.
Replies: 10
Views: 51132

Best editor for Debian.

A thought on editors:

I would never use an editor that didn't let me customize the keyboard shortcuts for all editing functions. Kile and TexMaker, for example, will let you assign some menu options and LaTeX entries to keys, but not word-wrangling functions.

This is why I'm trying to set up jEdit ...