Publishing High-Quality Documents with Kile

TeX and LaTeX produce impeccably laid-out documents, and are the only practical way to show some mathematical equations. This GUI tool acts as an "integrated development environment" for the command-line document preparation tools.

By Ninoslav Pešić, LinuxWorld.com, 10/19/07

Discerning typesetters have long relied on Tex and LaTeX for impeccable-looking documents. Now they have a front-end that works under Linux and BSD and brings control of the compilers and related utilities under the comprehensive graphical user interface. Authors and editors who use Kile can get increased productivity in the document creation business. This article will highlight some of Kile's key features which make it so attractive to newcomers to LaTeX.

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Beginning at the beginning

Typesetting in LaTeX takes the user through several stages on the way to the ultimate document. First, the user prepares a LaTeX file or files using a text editor, checking syntax and the LaTeX commands and keywords. The next step is compiling the prepared LaTeX document, followed by reading of error messages and taking necessary actions on their correction, before compiling the document again. Once the error messages are gone, check the document visually and, if necessary, revise the input file again. For example, edit the file to chane settings for an image or table formatting, then compile the LaTeX file once more.

When, after several iterations, everything is finally arranged as desired, the document can be printed or stored into electronic formats including the "device-independent format" (DVI), Postscript, PDF or HTML. This is done with the traditional utilities, including dvi2ps, dvi2pdf, and latex2html.

LaTeX is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting language. TeX, LaTeX, and related tools are integrated into the teTeX distribution, maintained by Thomas Esser. But although the tools are easy to install and available on all the common Linux distributions, the process can appear discouraging to many new LaTeX users. Yet, the exceptional typographical quality of the created documents is well worth the effort. But that is not to say that the TeX and LaTeX community should be deprived of the benefits offered by the graphical working environments. Under Linux and BSD, a quest for increased productivity in typesetting with LaTeX has led to several popular programs that integrate the features of the compilers with numerous stand-alone utilities from the teTeX distribution.

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RE: Publishing High-Quality Documents with Kile By Anonymous on October 20, 2007, 9:43 am Reply | Read entire comment tetex is discontinued for a couple of years now, everyone should be switching to texlive.

TeXLive By Pippin on October 24, 2007, 3:35 pm Reply | Read entire comment True, teTeX is discontinued since June 2006, I think. Still, Kile works in the same way with any Latex compiler or Dvi-Postscript utility that comes either with...

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