wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

[Christopher Cowart]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:10:56AM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when
> I try to run it:
> 
> > abiword
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> > uname -a
> FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct  7
> 20:47:51 UTC 2007     plos at monsert:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER  amd64
> 
> I don't want to bother with attempting to figure out why it broke.
> My question is since it looks like I am stuck with Tex is there any
> wyswyg editors for it?

I've heard good things about kile (editors/kile), but have never used it
on FreeBSD. It's also from the KDE folks, so you might be waiting a long
time for all libraries to compile.

I must say I'm a fan of just using vim combined with this guide at hand:
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

Good luck,

-- 
Chris Cowart
Lead Systems Administrator
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley
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