[Tex/LaTex] Comparable LaTex editors to Texpad on Windows

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I know there have been discussions on what editors to use in general. However, I have a specific question about comparable tex editor to Texpad on Windows.

I am a mac user and I am thinking about switching to a windows system. However, Texpad is the only thing I am using that is not available on Windows. I tried a few editors on PC but none of them comes close to Texpad. I have three main concerns:

Auto sense and auto typeset — Texpad detects changes to tex codes automatically and compile by itself to reflect those changes
Error detecting — Texpad detects errors very well, often point you to the line where the problem comes from
No multiple files — Some windows editors I have tried produce multiple files in addition to pdf once I compile.

Any suggestion would be helpful. I am aware of some of the online editors such as ShareLatex, but it is hard to update figures and tables with those editors. I also like work things offline from time to time.

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I believe the authors of Texpad are working on a Windows version of their editor. It is not available for beta testing yet.

I can't wait myself as I have to work on a Windows computer at work.

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As Manuel suggested in his comment, split your document into several files and your experienced sluggishness will most likely go away. Just have one "thesis.tex" file from which you call all your chapters.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
 \input{chapterOne.tex}
 \input{chapterTwo.tex}
\end{document}

If you don't find that solution satisfactory, I would suggest moving your project to one of the cloud services you listed. I would still suggest you split up your chapters though as it will be much easier for you to make changes to the document.

Personally I use ShareLatex for my projects. Biggest one is on 167 pages and experiences no big sluggishness. Probably because I split the text into smaller files.

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The error message you copy&pasted is taken from a Windows terminal, which makes things a little more complex to analyze.

The important line in your error log is:

l.53 ...o ha complessit├á spaziale e temporale $╬ƒ
                                                  (nÔêÖm)$ risulta poco adat...

This line points to the character causing trouble, which is the one at the end of the first line, i.e. ╬ƒ (and not the accented letters which appeared before, and caused no trouble).

However, surely you are pretty sure that your document does not contain the offending chars ╬ƒ, right? And you are right.

The problem is that Windows console uses the ancient MS-DOS code page, and not UTF-8, so your error message gets mangled. Using some iconv juggling in my (utf-8) linux machine:

$ cat mangled_error.txt
l.53 ...o ha complessit├á spaziale e temporale $╬ƒ
                                                  (nÔêÖm)$ risulta poco adat...
$ iconv -f utf8 -t cp850 < mangled_error.txt > error.txt
$ cat error.txt
l.53 ...o ha complessità spaziale e temporale $Ο
                                                  (n∙m)$ risulta poco adat...

Aha! Now the error looks more readable. The offending char was not the à, as you thought, but the Ο, which is a (utf-8 encoded) capital letter Omicron. This character was not set up to be used in latex. Can you replace it by a "normal" (latin) O? See also: omicron not working in LaTeX

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