Comments on: LaTeX with Eclipse on Windows

By: over2light

over2light — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:48:09 +0000

Hello,

Here is my environment:
Mac OS 10.6.3, Eclipse Galileo + Texlipse, cocoAspell 2.1

Eclipse Preferences: (Texlipse)
Directory for main dictionaries: /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0

Directory for user dictionaries: /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0

Aspell command:
/usr/local/bin/aspell

Aspell arguments:
-a -t –lang=en_GB –encoding=iso8859-1 –personal=/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/en.pws
/usr/local/bin/aspell

Using the above config, the spelling (check spelling under Latex Menu in Eclipse) does not work!

Please help. Thanks in advance.

By: Ivan Dario Posada

Ivan Dario Posada — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:50:31 +0000

Hi everyone!, im using texlipse under MAC oSX i’m writen a little document in spanish but i have a problem with “Ã±” character this is my code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\title{\bf\LaTeX\\ Taller 2}
\author{Ivan Dario Posada Suarez\\ Codigo: 0621041944}
\date{2009-II}
\maketitle
DiseÃ±o

this is my error message:

“Package inputenc error: Keyboard character used is undefined.”

Why this error???

By: mateusch

mateusch — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:14:53 +0000

Texlipse is great. But aspell (neither that from cygwin, nor that precompiled for windows) want to accept right written words with german chars (e.g. ÃŸ, Ã¼ etc.) if your aspell command looks like that: -a -t â€“lang=de â€“encoding=utf-8. There must be a problem with encoding handling within aspell, i think.
But, as I’ve realised, you can keep your documents encoded in utf-8 without resigning on aspell spell checking in texlipse. I set all encoding settings (workspace, project and document, as well as the inputenc package) to utf-8, but changed the aspell command, so it looks like this: -a -t â€“lang=de â€“encoding=iso8859-1 . I thought, it would not work, but it works great (at least for me: aspell 0.60.5-1 installed thru cygwin, windows vista x64 ent). So – if you want to use aspell within your utf-8 documents including german or other special characters, just try this solution.

By: allan

allan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:55:07 +0000

i prefer texlipse too.

By: amary

amary — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:54:38 +0000

Thank you, you helped me!

Finally my aspell works with Texlipse on VISTA!!!! (except bib-tex auto completion..)
I use utf-8 encoding, by the way.

But at the moment, I do not find the personal dictionaries, although they seem to be stored somewhere……

But nontheless, thank you.

By: Hanno

Hanno — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:50:00 +0000

nice post. it helped me. thx

By: Enriko

Enriko — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:55:30 +0000

hi,

@Torsten

TeXnicCenter ist not able to save in utf-8 (correctly).
better use eclipse and texlipse on win xp.

bye
enriko

By: Martin Homik

Martin Homik — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:52:16 +0000

I just tried iii) and it works on XP. Good to know. A nice starter: I’ve already learned something.

By: Martin Homik

Martin Homik — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:07:31 +0000

Probably, the difficulty is that you have to tweak options at so many places. Here, you have to i) set the document encoding in the editor, ii) tell aspell the used encoding, and iii) set it in the document itself \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} for the latex compiler.

I usually forget at least one step and get frustrated so I just stick to old habits which proved to be useful in particular when working with English and German documents. I have not considered utf-8 until you wrote the comment, so I have not tested iii) which I found by googling. And there is the question if it works on XP. Also, I work in a heterogeneous environment with people using older unix machines. Experience shows that UTF-8 is not a good choice here. Then, versioning systems have also a few bad habits sometimes. Yuo see, things are quite comples and I found my setting more or less by try and error. But if you managed to work with utf-8 then keep on doing it.

Maybe, I should dive into this once more and recall what went wrong the last time.

By: Torsten

Torsten — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:31:14 +0000

Hi,

i like to ask: why not UTF-8?

About me:
I am Student and I’m using LaTeX on MacOSX, WinXp and (K)Ubuntu. With Latin1 there are some (more) problems with sharing documents, by using UTF-8 this happens only with TeXnicCenter on WinXP.

Bye

Torsten