Economist builds TeXugo, a free open-source LaTeX editor for academic papers, with Claude Code
joshgans · x · 2026-11-16
Economist Fredie Didier used Claude Code to build TeXugo, a free and open-source (MIT) LaTeX editor for Mac with Windows/Linux in testing. It requires no account or subscription, keeps all files local, and compiles with your own TeX Live.
Key features:
- Aimed at people writing papers, lectures, and referee reports, with 12 built-in templates
- Builds documents in the right order: one click resolves ?? references caused by citing tables across a paper and its online appendix, recompiling until every reference is numbered
- Explains why errors appear, helps revise text, supports coauthor collaboration, and streamlines submission workflows including referee responses and replication packages
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