Features

TeXnicCenter is extremly feature rich, but still easy to handle. We cannot give you a list of all the features here, but the following is an overview of the most important ones:

• Project orientated, integrated development environment for LaTeX-documents
• Definition of unlimited "output profiles" (i.e. "LaTeX => DVI", "LaTeX => PostScript", "LaTeX => PDF")
• Editor:
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Dynamic word wrapping (you don't need to scroll horizontally)
  • Integrated spell checker, including realtime spell checking (checks while you are typing)
  • Highlighting of parenthesis
  • Unlimited undo and redo
  • Bookmarks
  • "Go to last change"
  • Incremental search
  • Find, find and replace
  • Fully customizable
• Structure View:
  • Clear, document orientated tree view of the whole document structure
  • Displays headers, floating figures and tables, equations and a lot more
  • Supports file inclusion via input and include
  • Simple navigation by double clicking on an item
  • Simple referencing by inserting references with an item's context menu
  • Quickly updated by simply saving one or all files
• LaTeX-support:
  • Simple insertion of LaTeX-constructs by menu or toolbar
  • Compilation of the project in the IDE - simple jumping to errors, warnings and bad boxes.
  • Support for forward and inverse search, together with viewers, which are supporting these features (i.e. YAP).
• Support for document templates and wizards
• Full customizable menu and toolbars in modern and skinable look and feel
• Support for English and German language - other translations can be created by users
• Distributed as open source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and consequently available for free