wiki:Texlipse
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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.

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 ':'