Good instructions for configuring TeXShell can be found here. Get TeXShell from it author, Dirk Struve at by following this link TeXShell. It does have the advantage of being completely free. Not as customizable as Winedt, but a good progam nevertheless. Get WinEdt from This is what Winedt looks like:Īnother good shell is TeXShell. I liked it so much that I bought mine on the second day of using it. Winedt is shareware, it will work if you don't buy the license. There are a variety of shells available, I find the best to be Winedt. Now that you have a TeX system, you can run it as is, or you can get a shell to run everything. Y&Y TeX A good source for fonts - link broken True TeX This is the TeX engine that Scientific Word is built on. Read The Unofficial Scientific Workplace Homepage before you buy it.
There are a variety of commercial systems, examples include: OzTeX good Mac version, was once freeware
There are some shareware systems, examples include: These include:Įmtex - a DOS based TeX system read about it here There are other freeware TeX systems for the PC. MikTex is available at or follow the link MikTeX MikTex is the environment used in this presentation. In my opinion, the freeware MikTex is the best implemenatation available for the PC. Freeware, shareware, and commercial versions are available. If you are going to use Tex or LaTex, you will need the compilers and other associated programs. (By vastly superior I mean that it easily handles UNIX compression sytems as well as PC ones.) If you must use WinZip, I am sure that you can find it. I'm using PowerArchiver, it's vastly superior and is freeware. WinZip is the standard, you get poor performance and advertisements. If you download these programs, you will need something to remove the files from the archives. The address is or follow the link: HTML Tidy HTML Tidy is a great code checker, it corrects most errors and will run within NOTETAB or as a stand alonge program. Whether you use NOTETAB or any other web page editor, you should verify your code to make sure that it is compatible with all platforms. NOTETAB is available at the light version, which is all you'll ever need is freeware. If you are tired of using editors that hide the code, I suggest that you use NOTETAB. You'll need an HTML editor for posting material on the web and creating a class web page.
Among the things you will need are a TeX/LaTeX environment, an editing shell, a postscript interpreter, Adobe Acrobat Reader, a file archiver, a scripting language, and, if you want to put material on a web page, and HTML editor. If you don't want to download them all (and you are a faculty member at the University of Central Arkansas, send me a blank, recordable CD and I will transfer everything you need to it. Using TeX/LaTex to Enhance Science Courses - Techfest Presentation Using TeX/LaTex to Enhance Science Coursesīelow are links to allow you to download the materials that you need to work with TeX/LaTeX.
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