Drutex Plugin

biplab — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:54:53 -0500

There is one plugin available for Drupal specifically for this purpose. It's called DruTeX. Read about it at the following link.

DruTeX Group Page

DruTeX Project Page

This plugin has been developed under Summer Of Code initiative organised by Google. So you can expect it to be of higher standard than other plugins. I haven't tested this personally. But I guess this may solve the problem for iMechanica.

Site Admin(s) of iMechanica may give it a try.

Best Regards,

Biplab

Blog: http://biplab.in

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Yixiang Gan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:34:00 -0500

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biplab — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:03:28 -0400

i) There are several XML based documentation generation system, namely DocBook, BoostBook, etc. But their goal is to generate the documentation for software products. I'm not sure if they will fit your needs or not.

Another point to note is that XML is computationally expensive to parse. So if you've a large document to compile, you may notice the slowdown.

ii) Try any of the following,

Lyx (http://www.lyx.org/): Free, Open-Source WYSIWYG editor.
Scientific Word (http://www.mackichan.com/index.html?products/sw.html~mainFrame) : Commercial WYSIWYG editor.
GNU TeXmacs (http://www.texmacs.org/) : Free, Open-Source WYSIWYG editor. But please note that the Windows build is bit older and you may need to compile the source on your own if you wish to use the latest version.
BaKoMa TeX Word (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.ht...) : Commercial WYSIWYG editor.

I'll add more to this list if I find one.

"Having to convert a document to PDF or DVI just to see how it is going
to look is a messy process: You find a small typo in the PDF document,
and you can't just click there and correct it. You have to close the
PDF (or switch the windows), hunt for the place of the error in the
main editor, make the correction, again build, and finally find the
place of correction once again in PDF. Come on, that's like being taken
for a ride, given today's advances in software technology, isn't it?
(Think IntelliSense in Microsoft's IDEs, here, for comparison.)"

PDF file is a separate output file and if you can edit the PDF file (which you can do in Acrobat) you definitely correct the typo. But that would not change the source automatically.

Consider this. You write a program and then you find that the program has one logical error. Theoretically you can edit the exe file in a Hex-editor and correct it. But that won't affect the original source. And thus we just edit the source and recompile. Most of the compilers work only in one direction, from a Source to a Binary, not the other way around.

Another point is that the Intellisense works only for the defined keywords and objects. It doesn't check the syntax of content of any string.

If you wish to have such auto-complete feature for LaTeX, consider using LaTeX Editor (http://www.latexeditor.org/).

Best Regards,

Biplab

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Drutex Plugin

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