Original author(s) Written in C++/Qt | Development status Active | |
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Developer(s) Jan Sundermeyer, Daniel Braun, Tim Hoffmann Initial release 22 February 2009 (2009-02-22) Stable release 2.12.0 / 12 January 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01-12) | ||
TeXstudio is a cross-platform open source LaTeX editor with an interface similar to Texmaker.
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TeXstudio is an integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents that provides modern writing support, such as interactive spelling checker, code folding, and syntax highlighting. It does not provide LaTeX itself – the user must choose a distribution of LaTeX and install it first.
Originally called TexMakerX, TeXstudio was started as a fork of Texmaker that tried to extend it with additional features while keeping its look and feel. It runs on Windows, Unix/Linux, BSD, OS/2 and macOS.
Features
TeXstudio has many useful features needed to edit TeX/LaTeX source code, such as:
History of TeXstudio
TeXstudio has been forked from Texmaker in 2009, because of the non-open development process of Texmaker and due to different philosophies concerning configurability and features. Originally it was called TeXmakerX because it started off as a small set of extensions to Texmaker with the hope that they would get integrated into Texmaker some day. While at some points you can still see that TeXstudio originates from Texmaker, significant changes in features and the code base have made it to a fully independent program.