WinEdt™ (shareware) is a powerful and versatile text editor for Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents...

WinEdt is used as a front-end for compilers and typesetting systems, such as TeX or HTML. WinEdt's highlighting schemes can be customized for different modes and its spell checking functionality supports multi-lingual setups, with dictionaries (word-lists) for many languages available for downloading from WinEdt's Community Site www.winedt.org. Contributions are welcome!

Although WinEdt is reasonably suitable as an all-purpose text editor it has been specifically designed and configured to integrate seamlessly with a TeX System (such as MiKTeX or TeX Live). WinEdt documentation does not cover TeX related topics in depth. You'll find introductions and manuals on typesetting with [La]TeX, as well as links to other recommended accessories, on TeX's Community Site (TUG).

New: WinEdt 6

WinEdt 6.0 is now available. It integrates seamlessly with the latest accessories and TeX Systems (MiKTeX 2.8 and TeX Live 2009). It has been extensively tested under Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7...

To install WinEdt 6.0 follow the link below and proceed according to the instructions:

    WinEdt 6.0 [Build: 20100317] (St. Patrick's Day Edition)

Once installed, don't forget to check WinEdt's Help Manual. A few sections in the User's Guide explain how to set up your LaTeX projects in order to take full advantage of WinEdt's capabilities when it comes to navigating in large projects or collecting data for purpose of referencing and citations. If used properly WinEdt will make your TeX-ing more enjoyable by allowing you to focus on the contents of your documents while transparently taking care of typesetting-related tasks...

WinEdt 6 status update

I have been criticized in the past for not keeping users up-to-date regarding WinEdt development. Here is an attempt to rectify this:

This summer there will be another build of WinEdt 6.0 with some bug fixes some corrections to the default settings and some new functionality related to managing settings. More documentation would be nice but I could definitely do with some help here... Any volunteers?

In the meantime work on a unicode version WinEdt 6.1 has already begun. Delphi 2010 has a decent support for Unicode and there is no longer any reason to stick with ANSI as a working format. It will take a few months to iron out all the problems and optimize the performance but a stable beta version should be ready by the end of this year... WinEdt 6.1 will take advantage of new functionality in Delphi (eg. unicode, using png images in its interfaces, etc...).

I will try to avoid customizing Delphi's VCL because heavy customizations make switching to a new version of the compiler hard. I anticipate that a 64-bit version of Delphi will eventually become available and a yearly update of my compiler and tools will likely become a standard practice from here on (I was hanging on to a heavily customized Delphi 7 for as long as I possibly could -- perhaps, for too long:-).

WinEdt 6.1 will be based on 6.0 but a few incompatibilities are bound to arise. Support for Unicode is the number one priority. WinEdt macros and ini files will use utf8 format. WinEdt will still be able to edit legacy (ANSI or OEM code page-dependent) documents but utf8 and Unicode (utf-16) will be default formats. I will try to make transition easy but some basic understanding of file format issues on the part of users will be expected... And, yes, upgrade from version 6 will be free (the same registration code can be used in 6.1).

Finally, I am also hoping to take advantage of nice summer days (as rare as they are on the Atlantic coast of Canada) and spend some time sailing the Nova Scotia coastline (mostly dabbling in St. Margaret's Bay:-). This may impede the progress on WinEdt 6.1 for a while but it is badly needed for my sanity. All in due time...

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Last change: Thursday, June 24, 2010 19:36