Texpaid builds on top of LaTeX by replacing the console output with a range of. If you are a LuaLaTeX user, or write documents that includes languages other than English, your chance of getting frustrated with this app is high. Texpad is an app made for reading, writing and editing LaTeX documents. I suggested to the developer several times to create a manual default engine option, but they religiously insists on their auto sense algorithm and not allowing a user to specify a default engine (unless that is xelatex, because that’s what it defaults to). Texpad alternatives Texmaker Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX. The same thing happens when the app sees an input text in a language that the developer didn’t consider. For this reason, I bought the iPad version of the app because I figured I could sync my tex files on. Even if the input file is made for LuaLaTeX, using style files specific to that engine, it auto senses to xelatex and requires manually stopping auto-sense and then specify the correct engine, each time a new file is opened. The mac version of Texpad is stylistically very pleasing. Any situation that is not known to the developer and their auto sense rules will most likely default in xelatex, and that happens VERY often. Its a bit crude, you need to manually paste the LaTeX into texpad, but the result is superb. One thing I dislike about Texpad is their faulty “auto-sense” algorithm and the developer insists on not providing manually setting the default engine. Texpad may be the future of using LaTeX on a Mac if tighter security is ever required.
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