Integrated L^ATEX `front ends'

Such GUI-based tools wrap together into one convenient user interface all of the tools needed to produce a PDF file. At present (May 2007) we strongly recommend the KDE-based suite kile for Linux users. These are generally almost self-explanatory. kile, for example, has L^ATEX and dvi viewers side by side in the button menu bar (for conventional EPS-based L^ATEX users), and pdflatex and kpdf (a PDF viewer) side by for pdflatex users. Take a look at Fig. (1).

Figure: A GUI `front end' to L^ATEX : kile

For Mac OS X users one nice choice is iTeXMac2.