Installing LaTeX tools for Windows

There are many tools you can use LaTeX for windows.

1. Here is a suite of tools you can use LaTeX compiler: MiKTeX at http://www.miktex.org/

2. Viewer, Converter: Ghostscript and Ghostview: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.

3. Editing environment, WinEdt: http://www.winedt.com/

These tools have been developed by separate folks, but they are good about working together. We have found they work best together if installed with default locations and other default settings. This is not to say that you could choose other locations, but it is possible that you may need to take some extra steps to teach them how to work together in that case.

Since WinEdt is an integrated environment that calls the other tools, we suggest installing it last in case that helps it find the other tools.

The web page, http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/latex/icu/install_win.htm, can be refered to for details.