In the last days I had to prepare several abstracts for a meeting using a given LaTex template. Usually, I do all the texting and formatting in Gedit, but for some reasons I noticed that with my latest Fedora 12 installation I had also obtained Kile on my PC. Since I am only using Gnome and I am a little bit reluctant concerning the KDE, I was very skeptical about Kile, but when I started to use it I immediately started to get comfortable with its environment. Typing and formatting turned out to be a pretty straightforward job based on that small program. Beside the usual functions for generating various documents (PDF, PS, DVI, …) it has many additional options and features which definitely make your Tex-ing more efficient. What I like especially, is the structure view, which organizes the document by its headers and lets you collapse/expand sections which you work on. I can imagine that this feature helps a lot when working on longer documents. Although Kile runs on my PC under Gnome, it appears to be very stable. I think that I will use it in the future more often instead of Gedit, when preparing LaTex documents.

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