<s>
TexLab	B-Application
is	O
a	O
TeX	B-Application
editor	O
based	O
on	O
parallel	O
programming	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Contrary	O
to	O
other	O
TeX	B-Application
editors	O
which	O
use	O
a	O
text	O
file	O
as	O
input	O
,	O
TexLab	B-Application
was	O
designed	O
to	O
process	O
small	O
binary	O
document	O
modules	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TexLab	B-Application
typesetting	O
engine	O
is	O
implemented	O
by	O
a	O
thread	O
pool	O
to	O
execute	O
MiKTeX	B-General_Concept
commands	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
:	O
LaTeX	B-Application
,	O
XeTeX	B-Application
or	O
pdfTeX	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
MiKTeX	B-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
version	O
of	O
LaTeX	B-Application
for	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
;	O
it	O
consists	O
of	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
tools	O
to	O
process	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Christian	O
Schenk	O
is	O
the	O
creator	O
of	O
MiKTeX	B-General_Concept
,	O
he	O
studied	O
Computer	O
Science	O
at	O
TU	O
Berlin	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
Christian	O
owned	O
his	O
first	O
PC	O
,	O
he	O
began	O
working	O
on	O
a	O
fun	O
project	O
;	O
this	O
project	O
eventually	O
became	O
MiKTeX	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
TexLab	B-Application
interacts	O
with	O
Windows	B-Application
API	O
's	O
and	O
Win32	O
through	O
a	O
thin	O
level	O
of	O
abstraction	O
provided	O
by	O
the	O
C++	B-Language
classes	O
of	O
Wintempla	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TexLab	B-Application
interacts	O
with	O
MiKTeX	B-General_Concept
commands	O
through	O
Anonymous	B-Operating_System
pipes	I-Operating_System
which	O
is	O
an	O
interprocess	O
communication	O
(	O
IPC	O
)	O
method	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
LaTeX	B-Application
output	O
is	O
a	O
DVI	B-Application
file	O
,	O
TexLab	B-Application
may	O
require	O
Dvips	B-Language
and	O
DviPdfm	O
to	O
produce	O
PDF	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
open	O
a	O
DVI	B-Application
file	O
and	O
visualize	O
the	O
document	O
,	O
you	O
can	O
use	O
:	O
YAP	O
,	O
XDVI	O
,	O
WINDVI	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Starting	O
version	O
1.9	O
,	O
TexLab	B-Application
rendering	O
engine	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
Ghostscript	O
which	O
is	O
an	O
interpreter	O
for	O
the	O
PostScript	O
language	O
and	O
PDF	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
LaTeX	B-Application
file	O
is	O
a	O
text	O
file	O
with	O
special	O
control	O
sequences	O
to	O
create	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LaTeX	B-Application
is	O
mainly	O
used	O
to	O
create	O
scientific	O
documents	O
in	O
many	O
fields	O
such	O
as	O
:	O
mathematics	O
,	O
physics	O
,	O
computer	O
science	O
,	O
optics	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
TeX	B-Application
editors	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
processing	O
of	O
a	O
text	O
file	O
that	O
includes	O
LaTeX	B-Application
control	O
sequences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
the	O
contrary	O
,	O
TexLab	B-Application
technology	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
Document	B-General_Concept
Object	I-General_Concept
Model	I-General_Concept
platform	O
to	O
hide	O
part	O
of	O
LaTeX	B-Application
commands	O
complexity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thus	O
,	O
TexLab	B-Application
does	O
not	O
operate	O
using	O
a	O
.tex	B-Application
file	O
,	O
instead	O
the	O
document	O
is	O
divided	O
in	O
small	O
components	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
component	O
represents	O
a	O
LaTeX	B-Application
environment	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
individually	O
edited	O
and	O
managed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
version	O
1.8	O
,	O
TexLab	B-Application
help	O
module	O
interacts	O
using	O
Hypertext	B-Protocol
Transfer	I-Protocol
Protocol	I-Protocol
,	O
HTTP	B-Protocol
,	O
with	O
the	O
Wikibooks	O
to	O
provide	O
contextual	O
help	O
for	O
LaTeX	B-Application
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
LaTeX	B-Application
,	O
a	O
document	O
requires	O
a	O
main	O
text	O
file	O
,	O
and	O
optionally	O
,	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
external	O
files	O
such	O
as	O
images	O
,	O
class	O
files	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TexLab	B-Application
file	O
manager	O
technology	O
is	O
responsible	O
to	O
keep	O
the	O
files	O
organized	O
and	O
provide	O
a	O
common	O
interface	O
to	O
interact	O
with	O
the	O
file	O
system	O
of	O
the	O
computer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TexLab	B-Application
file	O
manager	O
technology	O
is	O
also	O
responsible	O
from	O
data	O
exchange	O
with	O
the	O
clipboard	O
and	O
allows	O
pasting	O
directly	O
data	O
from	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Excel	I-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Visual	I-Application
Studio	I-Application
,	O
the	O
file	O
system	O
or	O
other	O
applications	O
such	O
as	O
a	O
web	O
browser	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
TeXLab	B-Application
GUI	O
had	O
four	O
panels	O
;	O
however	O
,	O
in	O
most	O
recent	O
versions	O
the	O
navigation	O
panel	O
was	O
merged	O
with	O
the	O
PDF	O
view	O
panel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
content	O
panel	O
has	O
remained	O
the	O
same	O
since	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
TexLab	B-Application
and	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
edit	O
one	O
module	O
of	O
the	O
document	O
at	O
a	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
starting	O
in	O
version	O
1.9	O
,	O
TexLab	B-Application
dictionary	O
module	O
includes	O
:	O
French	O
,	O
Greek	O
,	O
Italian	O
,	O
Portuguese	O
,	O
Romanian	O
,	O
Russian	O
,	O
Ukrainian	O
,	O
and	O
UK	O
English	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
version	O
1.2	O
,	O
TeXLab	B-Application
provides	O
templates	O
for	O
:	O
articles	O
,	O
Elsevier	O
articles	O
,	O
books	O
,	O
letters	O
,	O
Beamer	O
presentations	O
,	O
proceedings	O
,	O
thesis	O
,	O
and	O
simple	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
LaTeX	B-Application
documents	O
require	O
EPS	B-Language
images	O
,	O
TeXLab	B-Application
provides	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
tools	O
to	O
manipulate	O
images	O
and	O
PDF	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
tools	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
the	B-Language
poppler	I-Language
library	I-Language
and	O
Sam2p	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Poppler	B-Language
is	O
a	O
fork	O
of	O
xpdf	O
which	O
was	O
written	O
by	O
Derek	O
Noonburg	O
;	O
Albert	O
Astals	O
Cid	O
is	O
the	O
current	O
maintainer	O
of	O
Poppler	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sam2p	O
is	O
a	O
command	O
line	O
utility	O
written	O
in	O
ANSI	B-Language
C++	I-Language
that	O
converts	O
some	O
image	O
formats	O
into	O
Adobe	O
PostScript	O
or	O
PDF	O
files	O
and	O
several	O
other	O
formats	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TexLab	B-Application
import/export	O
module	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
Anonymous	B-Operating_System
pipes	I-Operating_System
and	O
Windows	B-Application
processes	O
to	O
interact	O
with	O
Poppler	B-Language
and	O
Sam2p	O
.	O
</s>
