The TeX FAQ

Frequently Asked Question List for TeX

Installing

TeX-friendly editors and shells

There are good TeX-writing environments and editors for most operating systems; some are described below, but this is only a personal selection:

Atari, Amiga and NeXT users also have nice environments. LaTeX users looking for make-like facilities should review the answer on Makefiles for LaTeX documents.

While many (La)TeX-oriented editors can support work on BibTeX files, there are many systems that provide specific “database-like” access to your BibTeX files — see “creating a bibliography file”.

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