Texifier : LaTeX editor

It usually fails to download extra latex packages, so compiling errors cannot be solved :-(

I have been using this app for years and have grown to depend on it. Recently, though, I have been unable to export files from it. I got on the company's web site and had to sift through many levels until I finally found a way to contact them. When I did, I received an automated response saying---in effect---that they were probably too busy to help me, but in order to do at all so they required me to provide something called a screencast and gave me a link to a site that supposedly would help. This---and the links I found at this site---were, for the most part, applicable only to either Windows or MacOs, whereas I am using an iPad Pro. Sorry, but customer relations for this app is very poor.

I’ve used half a dozen TeX apps for iPad, and this is my favorite by far. Everything I usually do on my Linux desktop works here (except some very unique and rare font stuff), so I can move files between my iPad and computer easily. I have a few, minor gripes. There’s a weird shortcut from holding down the space bar, which is super annoying. I’ve never needed the shortcut and frequently need to type multiple spaces, which I can’t figure out how to turn off. The app isn’t great in split-screen mode, where the error report will pop out and take up most of the screen, but also hide the button that hides the error report. I have trouble keeping it in the editor-only view as well, so on half an iPad screen, it will try to display three windows. Ideally the compiler errors would just be a little red number at the top of the editor when in split-screen. Also I want to be able to use vim in the editor, but that is asking for a lot haha.

Typesetting doesn’t seem to work, at least for me in the US on an iPad Pro. I get an error that “The network connection was lost”. This is a shame, because it otherwise looks like an excellent app with lots of thoughtful features. It just isn’t all that useful to me if it’s not possible to typeset. I hope this gets fixed soon.

中文格式经常需要用到CTEX包和XeLaTeX格式。但离线编译不支持，只能在线编译。iPad使用不方便。希望作者能不能加入一下bundle。

This is not in any way, manner, shape or form the least bit intuitive to use. Suppose you are working on document A. You now want to switch to document B. I have yet to figure out how you get back to the document listings or icons so you can select document B. Online help is worthless. If there was another LaTeX editor for IOS I would dump this app in a heartbeat.

When Texifier suggests a latex completion while typing, at times a later undo will fail to undo the phantom suggestions, and in fact weirder behaviour than this can occur, eating entire swathes of text (at least on iOS 16.1.1). I just lost an entire document this way.

Basically, no email support unless it has to do with payment or technical issues. Even then, it’s their call. For everything else, read the FAQ. Hey man, we’re paying a price that you set. What you’re saying is sorry, we’re a small team with insufficient resources. Well, excuse me for giving you MY money for a product YOU can’t support because you’re short-handed. How you run business is your problem. If you can’t deliver, then don’t sell. Also, I’m not going to pay twice after the tone of your response to a simple licensing query. The only reason for Texifier is to use it on my iPad on the road. The app itself hangs at times, the editor has minor deficiencies, but I can put up with it because it works most of the time. I don’t holler for support unless I’m really pressed for time and I can’t easily find the problem in documentation. But to have a “go read the docs first” thrown in my face has consequences: you won’t get anymore money from me.

You want us to pay twice for an iPad and for MacBook … Not fair …

It is really not helping to disable Dropbox after I have purchased it. Blaming Dropbox instead of putting the effort? Not happy with it.