Review
This is official description
WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX. The program includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and user configuration options. It is not a LaTeX system; an additional LaTeX package is required.
Some of the features are:
-Multi language support
o Brazilian-Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese,Czech, Danish, Dutch, English
o French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mexican-Spanish, Polish
o Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
-Project environment (Table of Contents, Figures, Tables, Bibliography)
-Built-in spell checker based on Hunspell
-Unicode support
-Bibliography support
-Forward and inverse search
-Table-Wizard
-One-instance-program
-Multiple documents
-Project and Output Window
-User defined programs
-Configure Tool Bars (symbols, user-def. programs, macros)
-Define macros
-Choose font
-Windows/Unix file format
-WinShell starts command line driven
-Syntax highlighting
-Wrap mode
-Drag & Drop
-Portable WinShell
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 3.2
WinShell 3.21 is an integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX.
WinShell features a text editor, syntax highlighting, project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and user configuration options.
This is NOT a LaTeX system; an additional LaTeX package is required.
LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program, most widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, scholars in academia and the commercial world, and other professionals.
LaTeX is used because of the high quality of typesetting achievable by TeX.
The program can be installed in twenty different languages.
Using the WinShell editor, you can create any LaTeX document, using the right syntax. WinShell provides demo files that will show you how to format your documents, including graphs and special symbols.
The results can be saved or exported to other formats, as .PDF for Acrobat Reader. |
