Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:59:08 04/20/04
Go up one level in this thread
On April 20, 2004 at 21:53:27, Michael Yee wrote: >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... Not worth the bother, I would say. For technical documents, 90% are in PDF and 9.9% are in ps. The remaining .1% that are only available in Tex are not going to get a big effort from me unless one comes along that knocks my socks off.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.