[OS X TeX] Eclipse plugin for (La)TeX editing

[Jon Breitenbucher]

On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Mar 17, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Casper Lassenius wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just wanted to drop you all a line to tell you about a recently 
>> finished
>> student project at our university.
>>
>> The TeXlapse team recently finished version 1.0 of the TeXlipse 
>> plugin,
>> which provides functionality for editing, building, and previewing 
>> (La)TeX
>> documents from withing Eclipse. Notable features include syntax 
>> coloring,
>> code folding, automatic as well as partial builds, cite and ref 
>> completion,
>> and previewing with source synchronization.
>>
>> The plugin is free and open source, and the team would be extremely
>> interested in feedback. I have myself used it for a couple of months 
>> on Mac
>> OS X and found it to work well.
>>
>> You can find the plugin, as well as more information at
>> http://texlipse.sf.net/
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Casper.
>
> Thank you -- this looks very interesting. I have downloaded and 
> installed Eclipse, but I am unclear as to how to install TeXlipse. 
> That is, Step 3 on the Installation page:
>
> http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/manual/installation.html
>
> says to select a New Remote Site and give a name and address to it. I 
> don't see anywhere what that address should be.
>
> In addition, I have downloaded TeXlipse and it is an Eclipse plug-in. 
> Should I simply be installing the plug-in (and, if so, where?) or 
> should I be doing the install through the update mechanism on the 
> Installation page?
>
> I must confess to being very confused. :-)
>
> All the best,
>
> -- Gary
>
Gary,

I was confused also but the address it wants is 
<http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/>. What I am having trouble with is 
getting it to display a preview of the result. This is handles under 
the Preferences for Eclipse which will have options for Texlipse once 
it is installed.
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