Frequently Asked Questions

How to use LaTeX with Windows ?
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How to use LaTeX with Windows ?

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LaTeX is a free and open software for typesetting documents with typographic quality. Coding is independent of the operating system. Many tools are available for its implementation on a given system.

The following solution has been used for Windows:

Default installation of the MiKTeX (http://www.miktex.org/setup.html) distribution: downloading of the complete system (~360 Mo), installation, et re-installation to guarantee the complete updating (~1100 Mo !).
Default installation of Ghostscript and GSview (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/).
Default installation of the TeXnicCenter (http://www.toolscenter.org) LaTeX shell (or of WinShell (http://www.winshell.de) which is multilingual).

The equivalent solution for Linux combines the teTeX (http://www.tug.org/teTeX/) distribution and the Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/) LaTeX environment.

The above solution is recommended by Céline Chevalier et al. (2005). LaTeX pour l'impatient. H&K (http://www.h-k.fr/), Paris.

This solution is described on the Framasoft (http://www.framasoft.net) site which suggests other distributions like TeX Live (http://www.tug.org/texlive/) and other environments like LyX (http://www.lyx.org/).

The following sites may also be consulted:

GUTenberg (http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/) : le groupe francophone des utilisateurs de TeX.
LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) : A document preparation system.
TUG (http://www.tug.org) : Welcome to the TeX Users Group web site.

Thank you to many AXUL (http://www.axul.org) members for advice on LaTeX distributions.

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2009-05-22

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