[Tex/LaTex] What are the advantages of TeXShop over TeXworks

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The TeXworks homepage states that "It is deliberately modeled on Dick Koch’s award-winning TeXShop for Mac OS X" and it seems that today people are using both. Both are delivered with TexLive and MacTex. TeXworks is available for Windows and Linux as well, what I consider a big advantage. TeXShop might have better OSX look&feel, but it is available for OSX only. So why should I use it, does it have advantages over TeXworks?

Best Answer

TeXShop is a much more mature application, with a large user base and active development.

Some advantages:

  • Macro editor that allows you to attach commands or menu items to arbitrary chunks of code
  • Palettes of commonly used symbols and constructs
  • Simple table input editor
  • Macro to paste spreadsheet cells from Excel/Numbers etc. as LaTeX tabulars
  • BibDesk integration (automatic insertion of citations when BibDesk is open)
  • Native integration with aspell

The last two are very important for me. I have a soft spot for the fourth, since I contributed the code. :-)

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