On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, BaKoMa submitted an update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware
Most noticeable improvements (in short):
- Smart handling of SPACE in preview/proof window.
- independent key binding for text and math mode. I.e. Ctrl+F inserts extsf or frac.
- More reasonable saving multi-file documents.
- Save As Template helps to customize template set.
- Go To Line (source context menu)
- Handling TeX generated files as READONLY for edit.
- Added Arabi package to ArabTeX.bkz unit. Work around for displaying Arabic fonts included.
- Updated PSCyr in Russian.bkz unit.
- Fixed bugs in PS interpreter.
More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html
-------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.70 ------------------
BaKoMa TeX 7.70 supports two coexisting IDE:
- BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
- Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE.
About BaKoMa TeX Word.
BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts:
- It is True WYSIWYG Editor. It means that display shows precisely the same
what will be printed. It looks such that you edit your document immediately in Preview Window.
- It is True LaTeX Editor. It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document.
BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related with import graphics, font support, and document export.
It supports processors: (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. Other processors such as Omega may be added in future.
It imports: EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. It supports fonts: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. It exports: DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT).
It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.
Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing.
Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.) is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'.
Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers.
TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. So that documents made with TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation. In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents. So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work.
More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html
Some snapshots are available at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/
Root of BaKoMa TeX distribution is at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/
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Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf