

Instead, get a good tutorial and work through it using a good TeX-aware editor. Of course, different things work for different people, but I have a lot of experience talking with people trying to get up to speed on TeX and LaTeX and honestly, it just gives a person an additional dragon to slay on the way to getting the document out the door. I see folks recommending some GUI programs.


most important: supports source/preview synchronization (e.g., control-click within the source text to locate the corresponding position in the PDF, and vice versa).developed with a PDF workflow in mind and includes an integrated PDF viewer so there is no need to switch to an external program to view the typeset output.modeled on TeXShop for Mac OS X, which is credited with a resurgence of TeX usage on the Mac.freely available for all of today’s major desktop operating systems.The TeX Users Group has sponsored the production of a best-practices TeX-aware editor that is simple but not too simple, called TeXworks.
