Author: Michael Yee
Date: 18:53:27 04/20/04
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On April 20, 2004 at 19:45:42, Dann Corbit wrote: >On April 20, 2004 at 18:29:27, Michael Yee wrote: > >>On April 20, 2004 at 17:50:14, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>On April 18, 2004 at 07:26:44, Dan Andersson wrote: >>> >>>P.S. >>>What do you use to read LaTeX files on Win32? >> >>I think a good distribution for windows is MiKTeX >>(http://www.miktex.org/)--i.e., if you actually want to generate the PS or PDF >>from LaTeX source. > >25 MB download for the "small" distribution. Much larger after the tediously >long installation (at least it is fairly automated). At least now if I want to >look at something like this: >http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/kv315f.tex >and the original author has no desire to output in a sensible format, then I >have some way to convert it into a readable file. > >>But if you meant an IDE for looking at the raw LaTeX files, TeXnicCenter >>(http://www.texniccenter.org/) is pretty nice. > >You have to have TEX installed: >"Enter the full path of the directory where the executables of your TEX >distribution are located" > >It does not provide an uninstal option in the folder created after setup. > >After installing MiKTeX, TeXnicCenter noticed its presence and asked if I wanted >to use it as the viewer. Then, it asked me to tell it where all the binaries >were. > >Incredibly unimpressive. > >I hope it won't be too hard to get all this crap off of my computer. I agree that texniccenter might still have some bugs and unfriendliness. But miktex is pretty solid. (I used both for a masters thesis and didn't have too much trouble.) Also, I forgot to mention if you have cygwin already installed, it might not be too much trouble to use tetex instead...
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