For my discertation I used TexPad (now called Texifier) which has live preview and it worked fine. I'm probably not the right person to ask though, because I on

For my discertation I used TexPad (now called Texifier) which has live preview and it worked fine. I'm probably not the right person to ask though, because I only used Latex because it was clear that my Supervisor liked to sniff his own farts and would've given me a lower mark for the same work in Word.