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Thursday March 30, 2006

LaTeX Editor for NetBeans 5.0 is comming...

Jan Lahoda, my colleague, shown me this week new version of LaTeX Editor for NetBeans 5.0. I am really impressed. I've never seen such good LaTeX support. When I was on university I was using a poor emacs plugin for LaTeX. But with the new Jan's everything is much easier and faster.

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents, but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

The main features of the LaTex for NetBeans 5.0 plugin:

• Code completion with documentation
• Code folding
• Error stripe
• Realtime syntax checking in editor
• Spellchecker
• Navigator
• LaTex project type
• Palette with symbols and predefined templates
• Refactoring - find usage and renaming labels (cross references)

Look at the screenshot:

Are you also impressed? I'll let know when the release is available.