In this article we are going to take a look at the Texmaker editor. This is a free editor distributed under the GPL license with which we can write text documents. This is a program multi platform which also integrates many tools necessary to develop documents with LaTeX.
Texmaker is a clean, highly configurable LaTeX editor. It will allow users to use key keys and consult a great documentation. Texmaker is a LaTeX open source editor with viewer PDF integrated. This application has reached the new version 5.0.
This new version of Texmaker includes homework assistants, such as generating a new document or letter, among others. It will also help us with a wizard when creating tables, charts, dating environments, etc. The wizard will also help us to export a LaTeX document through TeX4ht (HTML or ODT formats).
Features of Texmaker
This app has cool features like syntax highlighting, possibility to insert 370 math symbols with a single click and a "tree view" of the document for easier navigation. Some of the LaTeX tags and math symbols can be inserted in one click and users can define an unlimited number of snippets with key triggers.
texmaker includes Unicode support. It gives us the option to use spell checking, auto-complete, or code folding and a built-in viewer for pdf with synctex support and continuous viewing mode. Regular expressions are also supported with find-and-replace actions.
Texmaker is completely a Qt application. Texmaker is a free, modern and free LaTeX editor cross-platform for Linux, MacOS and Windows systems that integrates many tools necessary to develop documents with LaTeX.
Application automatically locate detected errors and warnings in the log file after a build.
El integrated PDF viewer supports continuous, rotating and presentation mode. Direct and reverse synchronization between the source TeX files and the resulting PDF file is supported through SyncTeX. The Asymptote graphics language it is also fully compatible with Texmaker (for both editing and compiling).
In this new version, the interface aspect has been improved, giving it a new and more modern touch. It has also been added highdpi support on windows and linux, plus a new PDF engine.
Support for Qt4 has been removed. In this latest version it is done necessary to have in the Qt5 team (> = 5.7). At the same time the translations into the different languages have been updated.
Install Texmaker 5.0 on Ubuntu 17.04
El official .deb file is only available for Ubuntu 17.04 (64-bit). From what they say on their website, this is due to the requirement of Qt5> = 5.7. To download the necessary package we will only have to go to the Texmaker website through the following link. In it you can select the necessary package.
After having the download at hand, we will have several options to install the package. The first will be to click install via Ubuntu Software. We could also use the Gdebi package manager. The last option will be to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and we will write the following command in it:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Descargas/texmaker_*.deb; sudo apt -f install
Texmaker configuration
In the documentation that they provide us in the website, advise all users to you need to configure Texmaker. Before compiling your first document, you must set the encoding used by the editor ("Configure Texmaker" -> "Editor" -> "Editor Font Encoding"). Next, you must use the same encoding in the preamble of TeX documents (example: \ usepackage [Latin] {inputenc}, if you use the "ISO-8859-1" encoding for the editor).
Note: when opening a file, it may be the case that the document cannot be decoded correctly with the default encoding. If this is the case, the program will allow us to choose another encoding (without modifying the default encoding).