Emacs is a good editor too. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schneidt@mail.nih.gov" target="_blank">schneidt@mail.nih.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Steven:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I thought I could just work on the TeX files in Word, treating them<br>
> as ASCII files, but the publisher wants me to edit the actual TeX<br>
> files and send them back to them as edited TeX files, not as ASCII<br>
> files.<br>
<br>
</div>TeX is in ASCII already. The files could be '.txt' but are normally<br>
labeled '.tex'.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Could you please tell me what program I should obtain and install to<br>
> do this kind of work?<br>
<br>
</div>As others have said, any text editor will work as long as you save it<br>
back as text. We can have religious wars about which editor or<br>
environment is best. If you have Unix you (Linux or Mac, maybe<br>
cygwin) will have a vast array of free tools available.<br>
<br>
If you use an environment built for TeX or LaTeX you can get automatic<br>
typesetting but at the price of being forced to use their editor.<br>
<br>
I use vim (visual editor improved) which is usually available on unix<br>
systems. (See: <a href="http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/vim.html" target="_blank">http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/vim.html</a> .) The reason I<br>
use this editor is that it is extremely efficient for making changes<br>
quickly. I'm editing this email using vim and I'm not touching my<br>
mouse at all, which means I keep my fingers on my keyboard and zip<br>
through the typing and changes.<br>
<br>
When working with LaTeX I automate my work using atchange<br>
(<a href="http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/atchange.html" target="_blank">http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/atchange.html</a>) so I don't like<br>
environments that force poorly designed editors (ie anything other<br>
than vim!) on me which make me use the mouse. Once atchange is set up<br>
to watch the text file and run the appropriate programs, I can just<br>
type a comma ',' to get the typeset pdf while keeping my fingers on<br>
the keyboard all the time.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I don't really need to be be able to run TeX/LaTeX as a typesetting<br>
> program. I just need to be able to edit the native files.<br>
<br>
</div>Unless you are careful to avoid commands (they will look like<br>
\command{stuff}) this may not be a good idea since you could mess up<br>
the file and make it hard for the author to correct it. It would be<br>
best to set up an environment which runs and typesets the file so that<br>
you can see your results.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.<br>
Senior Investigator<br>
National Institutes of Health<br>
National Cancer Institute<br>
Center for Cancer Research<br>
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory<br>
Molecular Information Theory Group<br>
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201<br>
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