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 LaTeXila 3.14 under GTK 3.14 | |
| Developer(s) | Sébastien Wilmet, community, The GNOME Project |
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| Written in | Vala, C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | GTK |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | TeX/LaTeX editor |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | gitlab |
GNOME LaTeX (up to version 3.26 known as LaTeXila) is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX documents. It runs on Linux systems with the GTK library installed.
GNOME LaTeX has many useful features needed to edit TeX/LaTeX source code, such as:
However, it lacks some features available in other editors:
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