[protext] TexnicCenter - MiKTeX - package downloads

[Thomas Feuerstack]

Am 23.04.2011 09:15, schrieb Mike Prager:
> I am wondering if there is any better work-around for the well-known
> incompatibility when running these two excellent programs. I ask here
> (if it's not obvious) because both are distributed as part of ProTeX.
>
> It seems that both packages are under active development, so I am
> hopeful for a solution I have overlooked.

hmm, it might have been really a better idea to ask the developers of 
TeXnicCenter directly. As ProTeXt's maintainer its more in my interest 
to bring those packages together, which work best in combination.

Concerning to this, i'm not quite more happy with TeXnicCenter for a 
longer time, because beside the "GUI framework"-bug there are some more 
annoyances, which make me think about replacing TeXnicCenter by a 
different Editor in future releases:

- The automatic detection of MiKTeX lacks in case MiKTeX is installed in 
the default directories. This occurs since MiKTeX 2.7

- Until today TeXnicCenter doesn't support UTF-8-encoding, which makes 
it unusable with modern TeX-engines like XeTeX.

- At least there doesn't seem to be a very active development. I've just 
noticed, that the version to download is still version 1StableRC1, which 
it was already in January 2009.

So in my humble opinion, try using for example Texmaker 
(http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/) before squandering too much energy in 
TeXniccenter.

Regards - Thomas