Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, TeXpen is an open-source LaTeX editor based on Qt and C++.
Main features:
- Themes/Background colors to protect eyes
- English Grammar/Expression Improvement
- Article outline to navigate quickly
- Document Templetes for beginners
- One key inserting Figure/Table
- One key build pdf and built-in Preview
- Auto-completion to reduce typing
- Spell-check
The latest version available is TeXpen 0.7.2, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:
- Fix datatime insertion problem
- Add recent files list
- Fix no-save-quit problem
- Fix outline auto-hide problem
In this article I will show you how to install TeXpen 0.7.2 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin 2014, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro and other Linux systems.
In order to install TeXpen 0.7.2 on Linux systems, we have to download the texpen archive from the project’s website, extract it and run the texpen launcher. Like this:
$ wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/texpen/0.7.2/TeXpen-linux-0.7.2.tar
$ tar -xvf TeXpen-linux-0.7.2.tar
$ sudo mv texpen /opt/texpen
$ sudo ln /opt/texpen/texpen /usr/bin/texpen
Optional, to remove texpen, do:
$ sudo rm -r /opt/texpen /usr/bin/texpen