WinShell

Infobox Software
name = WinShell


caption = Free multilingual IDE for LaTeX.
developer = Ingo H. de Boer
latest_release_version = 3.21
latest_release_date = July 29th 2007
operating_system = Windows
genre = TeX, LaTeX, Editor
license = freeware
website = [http://www.winshell.org WinShell]

WinShell is a freeware, closed-source multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX for Windows developed by Ingo H. de Boer. Its most recent version is 3.21. Supported languages are Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Mexico Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spain Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

WinShell includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars, user configuration options and it is portable (e.g. on a USB drive).It is not a LaTeX system; an additional LaTeX compiler system for Microsoft Windows (such as MiKTeX or TeX Live) is required.

History

; 2007-07-29, WinShell 3.21: WinShell is portable, e.g. use WinShell on a USB flash drive. Supported languages: Brazilian-Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mexican-Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

; 2007-06-07, WinShell 3.2: The built-in spell checker is based on Hunspell. Also, high resolution toolbar and menu images are included. The Output Window has an additional tab to have a comprehensive view on tasks, written in a TeX document. Supported languages: Brazilian-Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mexican-Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

; 2005-05-25, WinShell 3.1: A lot of redesign of the user interface is introduced, also UTF support, search in files and improvement or error findings. The Output Window includes a tab for the output and the .log file. The output is scanned and displayed in an easy to understand format. Supported languages: Brazilian-Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mexican-Spanish, Polish, Spanish-Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

; 2005-10-11, WinShell 3.0: A new and easier method to generate GUI translations is introduced: simply translate a text file. Supported languages: Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.

; 2005-02-27, WinShell 2.6: New to this version: An integrated spell checker based on Aspell, list of figures and list of tables in the Project Window, bibliography support and support for forward and inverse search. Supported languages: Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.

; 2004-09-15, WinShell 2.51: Users can make their own language. Japanese is available, but not in the release. Supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.

; 2004-04-04, WinShell 2.5: WinShell uses the Scintilla library as editor from now on. The new WinShell icon and a tabbed document view are introduced.

; 2003-02-02, WinShell 2.22: Spell checking with Ispell is available.

; 2002-05-15, WinShell 2.21: Some bug fixes for WinShell 2.2.

; 2002-04-25, WinShell 2.2: More general options are added. Supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

; 2002-03-18, WinShell 2.1: The output of the different programs is redirected to the Log Window. Errors can be easier tracked, WinShell opens the file at the specific error line, pdfLaTeX is added to the Tool Bar and a Table Wizard is included. Supported languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

; 1999-05-07, WinShell 2.0: WinShell 2.0 has a complete re-design of the Log Window and introduces the projects and the Project Window. The Project Window shows the files and the table of contents, by parsing the .toc file. WinShell switches to one single executable and has .dll files for the languages. Supported languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

; 1998-12-02, WinShell 1.3: WinShell 1.3 adapts the settings of WinShell 1.2 into Windows conform folders. Also, the differentiation between Main-TeX-Document and current TeX-Document is introduced. Menu items have icons.

; 1998-07-29, WinShell 1.21: Some bug fixes for WinShell 1.2.

; 1998-07-01, WinShell 1.2: WinShell 1.2 has syntax highlighting, macros, user defined program calls and customizable toolbars (due to these major changes, this should have gotten a new major version 2.0).

; 1998-03-25, WinShell 1.1: WinShell 1.1 introduces the Log Window which shows the .log file after the LaTeX run.

; 1998-01-22, WinShell 1.0: The first version has a German and an English user interface, program calls for LaTeX, BibTeX, dvips, a .dvi and a .ps viewer. It contains six different toolbars for LaTeX symbols. The user has to define the main LaTeX document and can select the font for the editor. For German users it has an Umlaute options to define the Umlaute for the key-strokes.

ee also

*Comparison of text editors
*Crimson Editor, an open source Windows editor
*List of text editors
*LyX, an open source cross-platform editor and shell
*Texmaker, an open source cross-platform editor and shell
*TeXnicCenter, an open source Windows editor and shell
*LaTeX-Editor (LEd), a closed source Windows editor and shell

References

* cite book
title = Guide to LaTeX
url = http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321173856
publisher = Addison-Wesley
month = November | year = 2003
edition = 4th edt.
id = ISBN 0-321-17385-6
first = Patrick W.
last = Daly
coauthors = Helmut Kopka

External links

* [http://www.winshell.org/ WinShell]