Kile is a user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop environment. KDE is available for many architectures such as PC, PowerPC (Mac for example) and SPARC.

The main features are:

• Compile, convert and view your document with one click.


• Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands


• Templates and wizards makes starting a new document very little work.


• Easy insertion of many standard tags and symbols and the option to define (an arbitrary number of)
  user defined tags.


• Inverse and forward search: click in the DVI viewer and jump to the corresponding
  LaTeX line in the editor, or jump from the editor to the corresponding page in the viewer.


• Finding chapter or sections is very easy, Kile constructs a list of all the chapter etc.
  in your document. You can use the list to jump to the corresponding section.


• Collect documents that belong together into a project.


• Easy insertion of citations and references when using projects.


• Flexible and smart build system to compile your LaTeX documents.


• QuickPreview, preview a selected part of your document.


• Easy access to various help sources.


• Advanced editing commands.