LaTeXila

LaTeXila is an open source and freely distributed software project that acts as a standalone and feature-complete LaTeX editor designed especially for the GNOME desktop environment, running on any GNU/Linux operating system.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for multiple languages, customizable buttons to convert, view and compile documents with a single mouse click, a document structure displayed as a list of chapters, figures and sections, which are easily navigable. It features a modern graphical user interface written in GTK+ that is clean, easy-to-use and straightforward.

Moreover, the application features symbol tables, which include arrows and Greek letters, completion of LaTeX commands, templates, easy projects management, spell checking, forward and backward search, integrated file browser, as well as various toolbars and menus that include the main LaTeX commands.

The user will be able to open as many instances as he or she want, in order to work on multiple projects at the same time. It uses Latexmk by default, as well as the BibTeX, pdfTeX and dvipdf projects. In addition, it is possible to convert LaTeX documents to various other file formats, including PDF, DVI and PostScript.

Under the hood and availability

A quick look under the hood will show us that the LaTeXila application is written entirely in the Vala and C programming languages, using the cross-platform GTK+ GUI toolkit for its beautiful graphical user interface.

On the downloads section above you can find a universal source archive that can be virtually installed on any Linux kernel-based operating system, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms.

For faster installations, use the “latexila” binary package provided via the Software Center app of your Linux distribution. Officially supported OSes include Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo and openSUSE. It has also been tested on the OpenBSD operating system.

What is new in this release:

• User-visible improvements:
• Draw non-breaking spaces.
• File browser in the side panel: popup menus under buttons.
• Port to GtkSourceView 4 and Tepl 4.
• Internal code refactorings, use more Tepl features:
• Use more Tepl GActions.
• Let Tepl handle the window title.
• Implement TeplAbstractFactoryVala subclass.
• Other small things.
• Port to GAction/Amtk:
• Port the whole LaTeX menu to GAction and C in the liblatexila.
• Math menu in progress.
• Create first AmtkActionInfo.
• Other small improvements.
• Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.26.1:

• Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Internal code refactoring, use more Tepl features:
• Use TeplNotebook/TeplTabGroup properties (especially :active-tab).
• Use TeplTab::close-request signal.
• Use TeplTabLabel (and create subclass to add more info to the tooltip). This permitted to remove gedit-close-button.c.
• Bind Document:location property to TeplFile:location to be able to use some TeplFile and TeplBuffer APIs.
• Use some Tepl GActions for the Edit menu (cut/copy/paste etc).
• Same bug fixes as already backported on 3.24.3.
• Small improvement: make the tab label tooltip clearer: "Main file" -> "Project main file".
• Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.24.2:

• Fix a crash when moving a tab to a new window (regression in 3.24).

What is new in version 3.24.1:

• Create app menu only if the desktop prefers one, to avoid a double menubar on e.g. Xfce.
• Add Polish help translation.
• Other small code improvements.

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.23.1:

• Update code to not use deprecated GtkSourceView APIs.
• Use the Gtef library, available at: https://github.com/swilmet/gtef Some functionality has been moved from LaTeXila to Gtef.
• Change menu item label "Search Forward" -> "Jump to PDF" to not confuse it with the normal search and replace feature. And adapt the docs accordingly.
• Update the build system to use autoconf-archive macros instead of gnome-common. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration
• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.22.1:

• Fix Vala compilation error with newer valac compiler
• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Fundraising
• Update AppData
• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.20.1:

• Bug fix: initialize correctly the build view settings (to hide warnings/badboxes).
• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.19.1:

• Adapt code for GspellLanguageChooserDialog change

What is new in version 3.16.0 / 3.18 Beta 1:

• Integrated file browser: new buttons to open the current directory in a file manager (e.g. Nautilus) or in the terminal (Arnaud Blouin)
• Completion: close environment in a different user action, to have two undo actions (Stefano Facchini)
• Add indent/unindent to the edit menu (the feature was already available with Tab and Shift Tab).
• Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown for tab switching
• Better read-only mode for default build tools.
• Use an headerbar for the dialog windows
• Rewrite of the templates feature

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Show information about LaTeXila fundraiser
• Various small improvements
• Translation updates
• Added Bosnian translation

What is new in version 3.15.2:

• Add keywords to latexila.desktop (Tanguy Ortolo)
• Build tools icons in size 16x16 (Alexander Wilms)
• A good bunch of source code maintenance (use less deprecated GTK+ APIs)
• A few bug fixes and small improvements
• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14.3:

• Adapt code for GtkSourceView 3.14.3
• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Build: a file was missing in tarballs
• Add keywords to latexila.desktop
• Translation updates

What is new in version 3.15.1:

• Rewrite of the build tools and synctex code in C

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• A few bug fixes and small improvements
• GTK+ 3.14 is required because LaTeXila overrides some CSS properties and assumes that GTK+ 3.14 is used.

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Now LaTeXila follows the GNOME versions
• Better icons
• Upgrade to gee-0.8
• Other small improvements

What is new in version 2.12.1:

• Fix regex in latex post-processor
• GLib 2.40 is required
• Added Polish translation
• Translation updates

What is new in version 2.10.1:

• Translations updates
• Update URL of main web site (now on the wiki)

What is new in version 2.10.0:

• Added Lithuanian translation
• Translations updates

Requirements:

• GTK+
• GLib2
• GtkSourceView
• GtkSpell
• libgee
• gettext
• GSettings Desktop Schemas
• latexmk.py