I write in LaTeX almost every day bare this in mind. I prefer to have as little helps as possible when writing LaTeX or programming since this forces me to remembermands and is a good PDF viewer. So what I have done is; install MacTex and install Emacs create a small bash script forpiling my LaTeX document and opening it in if itpiles. So that is my setup. Almost the rest of my project group uses TexMaker which is also nice ) but I just prefer simplicity. -Lars italic