TeXnicCenter is a
free and open-source
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IDE for the
LaTeX
Latex is an emulsion (stable dispersion) of polymer microparticles in water. Latices are found in nature, but synthetic latices are common as well.
In nature, latex is found as a wikt:milky, milky fluid, which is present in 10% of all floweri ...
typesetting language. It uses the
MiKTeX or
TeX Live
TeX Live is a cross-platform, free software, free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. It is the replacement of its no-longer supported counterpart teTeX.
It is ...
distributions. It allows the user to type documents in LaTeX and to compile them in
PDF
Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Inc., Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, computer hardware, ...
,
DVI or
PS. A menu gives access to precoded elements and environments (formulas, symbols, sections). It also allows for the creation of projects to organize and access the sections and environments of documents, and to insert a bibliography (using
BibTeX
BibTeX is both a bibliographic flat-file database file format and a software program for processing these files to produce lists of references (citations). The BibTeX file format is a widely used standard with broad support by reference manage ...
) and an index (using
MakeIndex). TeXnicCenter was first released in 1999 by Sven Wiegand, it is included in ProTeXt and since version 2.02 it supports UTF-8 encoding.
Interoperability
TeXnicCenter has been designed to work with the
MiKTeX distribution. After installation, TeXnicCenter recognizes MiKTeX and sets up the paths to command-line compilers bundled with MiKTeX automatically. Similarly,
Adobe Acrobat Reader/Professional or
Foxit Reader
Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF (Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early ve ...
, when available, is configured as a viewer for the generated PDF documents. TeXnicCenter can tell Acrobat to close an opened PDF file before recompiling it with LaTeX using
Dynamic Data Exchange
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calls.
See also
*
Comparison of TeX editors
The following is a comparison of TeX editors.
Table of editors
See also
* Formula editor
* Comparison of word processors
* Comparison of text editors
* Comparison of desktop publishing software
* List of TeX extensions
*Chemical structure ...
References
External links
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SourceForge
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