ChemDev

Scientific writing and publishing is often done by using LaTeX. This easy to learn and powerful typesetting language can be extended with a whole bunch of packages reaching from chessboards to chemistry. In former times one used a normal text-editor to compose his documents. Today there are several IDE-like editors, making LaTeX much more comfortable. TeXnicCenter and TeXMaker are two of them. With the rise of Eclipse it was just a matter of time that there would be a plug-in, embedding TeX into Eclipse, and there it is. I am not a friend of having an extra program for each purpose. So if there already is a program that could do the job, why install another one for it. Eclipse is needed anyway, so why shouldn’t it be used for typesetting with LaTeX. But wait a minute, let’s have a look, if TeXlipse is good enough to replace a TeX-editor like TeXMaker. Read more »

Tags: Eclipse, Eclipse Plugin, LaTeX, TeXlipse