User:Egm6321.f09.Team1.vasquez/latex

Installing LaTeX for Microsoft Windows by using free open source tools. Here, MiKTeX is referred as the typesetting system and TeXnicCenter as the TeX editor.

MikTeX
MiKTeX is an implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows. MiKTeX only provides the tools to prepare documents using the TeX language (the Kernel of TeX for Microsoft Windows). It does not include a graphical environment.

Download
http://miktex.org/2.8/setup

TeXnicCenter
TeXnicCenter is an integrated documentation environment (IDE) for LaTeX (i.e. a graphical user interface to develop LaTeX documents). To install TeXnicCenter, it is required to install MiKTeX previously.

Download
http://www.texniccenter.org/resources/downloads/29

GhostScript
GhostScript is an interpreter for the PostScript language. When converting LaTeX documents to PDF format, TeXnicCenter first convert them to PostScript format. Therefore, it is required to set GhostScript as the post-processor which is used by TeXnicCenter when you create whether a PS or a PDF file.

Download
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/GPL/gs862/

Note: download gs862w32.exe for 32-bit processors and gs862w64.exe for 64-bit processors.

GSview
GSview is a graphical interface for GhostScript. It allows one to open PS files.

Download
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get49.htm

TeXaide (optional)
TeXaide is a free equation editor that allows one to create complex LaTeX equations and then copy and paste them into the LaTeX editor (as if you were copying text).

Download
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/tex/ctan/support/texaide/

JabRef (optional)
JabRef is a bibliography reference management software.

Download
http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

The Gimp (optional)
The Gimp is a raster graphics editor. It is useful (among plenty of other things) to convert the pictures to EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) format which is used when inserting figures into LaTeX documents.

Download
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

proTeXt
proTeXt is a MiKTeX-based distribution for Windows provided by the TeX Users Group. They include MiKTeX, TeXnicCenter, Ghostscript and GSview into a self-extracting file.

Download
http://www.tug.org/protext/

External reference links
LateX project

Getting Started with LaTeX

A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e

Egm6321.f09.Team1.vasquez 19:20, 2 November 2009 (UTC)