Texlipse
For creating Latex documents I (haf) recommend Texlipse, a Latex plug-in for Eclipse (you still will need a seperate Latex distribution).
It has nice features:
- Auto completion (Ctrl+Space) also for custom templates (use this a lot)
- Outline view (use Latex perspective)
- Nice bibtex support
- Bibtex editor with highlighting and also auto completion (type @ and Ctrl+Space to get a list of all available Bibtex entry types)
- Auto Completion in \cite{} tags
- Auto Build
- Spellchecker that checks while writing
- Synchronization between Tex Source and PDF viewer, see Latex/SyncPdf
- Wizard with small examples for beginners (e.g. to get a sample latex beamer presentation)
- ...
In the group lan it's installed at
/home/java/eclipse/eclipse
Spellchecking
You might have to point the Texlipse preferences to the dictionaries for on-the-fly spellchecking:
/home/java/texlipse
Bibliography
You want to use bibtex to make a proper bibliography.
- Texlipse Bibtex Doku: http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/manual/bibtex.html
To setup texlipse properly, checkout our common bib repository, e.g. to your local directory /home/<login>/shared/bib
Open Eclipse Preferences -> Texlipse -> Builder Settings -> Environment
Add a new entry BIBINPUTS which points to the checked out directory in your home dir. Example:
name: BIBINPUTS, value: /home/<login>/shared/bib:
Note: the last colon ':' is important. Omitting it will disable searching in the current path.
Now you can directly reference our bibfiles like
\bibliography{cau-rt,pub-rts,rts-arbeiten}
External Resources
You can specify additional directories in which latex will search for resources, e.g. images, style files, etc. For example we have a common image repository at https://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/svn/images
Open Eclipse Preferences -> Texlipse -> Builder Settings -> Environment
Add a new entry TEXINPUTS which may point to arbitrary directories, separated by colons ':'