an Integrated LaTeX Editing Environment (original) (raw)

Latest available unstable version (for KDE Frameworks 6): 3.0 beta 4
Latest available stable version for KDE4: 2.1.3

What is Kile?

Kile is a user-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor by KDE. Kile is available for many architectures and operating systems such as PC, Mac, and BSD, including Linux and Microsoft Windows.

The main features are:

• Compile, convert and view your document with one click.
• Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands
• Templates and wizards make starting a new document very little work.
• Easy insertion of many standard tags and symbols and the option to define (an arbitrary number of) user defined tags.
• Inverse and forward search: click in the DVI viewer and jump to the corresponding LaTeX line in the editor, or jump from the editor to the corresponding page in the viewer.
• Finding chapter or sections is very easy, Kile constructs a list of all the chapter etc. in your document. You can use the list to jump to the corresponding section.
• Collect documents that belong together into a project.
• Easy insertion of citations and references when using projects.
• Flexible and smart build system to compile your LaTeX documents.
• QuickPreview, preview a selected part of your document.
• Easy access to various help sources.
• Advanced editing commands.

Check out the screenshots section for some visual impressions.