MeWa - The Editor for LaTeX Source

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06-June-2007 - Release 1.4.0 of MeWa, bug fix and new feature release

Styling LaTeX/TeX keywords, commands, comments, etc., in colors and fonts.
Spelling checker (uses GNU Aspell). Including wrong spelling highlighting, suggestion and replacement on right-click popup menu. Now supports three English dictionaries (EN_US, EN_GB, and EN_CA).
NEW in v1.4.0: additional dictionaries can now be added and auto-detected.
Automatic configuration of LaTeX commands (latex, bibtex, makeindex) and viewers (dvi viewer, ps viewer, pdf viewer).
Capture LaTeX commands output, highlight error and warning messages, count number of error/warnings.
Line number display on page side, current line background highlighting.
Text wrap mode and wrap indent.
Editing multiple documents, i.e., Multiple Document Interface (MDI) support.
And most of all, a rather clean interface. In Full screen mode, you can hide everything other than the text you're working on.

With LaTeX building tools, LaTeX output capture and error highlighting:	Spelling checker in action and floating symbol bar and Replace dialog box:

Download MeWa from SourceForge.net

CVS access to the source code of MeWa is also available at SourceForge.net.

Click here to search the bug list at SourceForge.net

Print Preview not implemented yet (output blank pages at this time), menu removed since build 20050109
Run LaTeX Build when a process is already running may cause unpredictable behavior.

Bug fixing
Add option for single instance of the editor
Add option for automatic create backup
Customizing color schemes and more options of the Editor and export configurations
Add tabbed bar to show all opened files
Add multiple-file selection in Open dialog
Improve spelling check performance for extra large documents
Implement folding for LaTeX environments and sections/chapters.

This software is based on:

The installation executable is built with the freely available, clean and fast NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System).

Other FREE editing tools you may find useful for LaTeX (some I had used before wrote my own):

Crimson Editor, excellent general purpose text editor! And it's FREE! A Must See!
TeXnicCenter, an open-source and rich featured LaTeX editor. I think it's too complicated and still a not-so-stable beta release. However, good part of it's design is borrowed.