Hi
Does anyone know how to convert .tex files to .pdf in windows? I tried cygwin but it said the command "pdflatex" was not recognised
Thanks Philip
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A:
There's no reason to complicate things with Cygwin. Go download and install a TeX distribution for Windows - I personally use TeX Live, but various other distributions are available, such as MikTeX or W32TeX.
If you want to use UTF-8 for your bibliography, and you're using BibTeX, I recommend using bibtexu instead of the regular bibtex (since bibtex doesn't actually support UTF-8. There's a download on the W32TeX site.
Michael Madsen
2010-05-26 16:44:15
I've used MikTeX and it works great. However I've tried to install it three times over the years and only once did it actually work. I was not smart enough (or motivated enough) to figure out why the not-working installs did not work.
dash-tom-bang
2010-05-26 16:51:31
Yes, installing used to be kind of difficult. Thankfully, Portable MikTeX now exists (http://miktex.org/portable/about). It's intended to be run from a USB stick that you carry around with you, but as a side effect it is also utterly trivial to install and works just as well as the older method.
Kilian Foth
2010-05-26 17:12:40