Monthly Archives: August 2012

LaTeXila: some principles for the user experience

Posted on August 19, 2012 by swilmet

Writing a LaTeX document can be done in different ways. Some people prefer an application like LyX, which hides the LaTeX code and uses sophisticated UIs. Other people prefer to work directly on the LaTeX code. LaTeXila has chosen this … Continue reading →

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About code quality and maintainability

Posted on August 1, 2012 by swilmet

It can be difficult to write clean code, that is easy to understand, split in nice and well-defined functions that do one thing but do it well, with good variables names, and so on. For the maintainability, it is really … Continue reading →

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Introduce myself

Posted on August 1, 2012 by swilmet

This is my first blog post. My name is Sébastien Wilmet. I live in Belgium, and I currently study computer science at the university (in Louvain-la-Neuve). I’m the maintainer of LaTeXila, an integrated LaTeX environment written in Vala. I also … Continue reading →

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