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Typesetting Software

  • MiKTeX is an up-to-date TeX implementation for the Windows operating system. It includes LaTeX and other common forms of TeX. TeX is generally considered to be the best way to typeset complex mathematical formulas, but, especially in the form of LaTeX and other template packages, is now also being used for many other typesetting tasks. To install MiKTeX, go to http://www.miktex.org/setup.html , then follow the link for installation. Note that TeXnic Center is an excellent user interface for MiKTeX. You must install MiKTeX before installing TeXnicCenter. If you update your version of MiKTeX, you may need to uninstall and reinstall TeXnicCenter to enable TeXnicCenter find the new version of MiKTeX.
There is an excellent introductory set of LaTeX lectures produced by Joe Struss of Information Technology available at http://www.it.iastate.edu/training/videos/, you can also learn how to use LaTex by reading Introduction to LaTeX )
  • GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows, OS/2 and Unix. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the Postscript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe Postscript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed.
  • TeXnicCenter is a feature rich integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows (Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000/XP) freely available under GPL. IDE means the integration of all the tools, needed to develop documents with LaTeX, into just one application. You have the editor to write your LaTeX files with, you can start the building process just by choosing a menu item and the output of the LaTeX compiler is written to a window of TeXnicCenter and analyzed, so that you can simply jump from one error, warning or bad box to another one. Also viewing the generated output is easy with TeXnicCenter. Just choose a menu item and the correct viewer application will be started and if supported by the viewer, the output will be displayed at the position belonging to the current source position in TeXnicCenter. And the best: TeXnicCenter is distributed as open source under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is consequently available for free. http://www.toolscenter.org/front_content.php. Then choose Download-TeXnicCenter Setup, Version 1 Beta 6.21 ('Fawkes') and follow the prompts.