LaTex Installation

This provides links for installing LaTex and supporting programs for Mac OS and Windows.

This page has only minimal materials as there are lots of detailed webpages detailing installation.

Windows Operating System

You will need the basic Latex package, a text editor, and a pdf viewer.

Editor: You can use any editor (including something as simple as notepad). I use VIM. You likely want to start with an editor that incorporates point-and-click capability. I recommend TexNic Center.

The first time you start TexNic Center, it will ask you to configure. When it askes you for the "full path of the directory where the executables" are located, type C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin (Note: if you changed the default location when installing MiKTeX, then you'll need to replace C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 with the directory to which you installed MiKTeX.)
If it asks you to pick a PostScript viewer, you may just leave everything blank and just click "Next". Similarly if it asks you to pick a DVI viewer, just leave everything blank and click "Next". (It may or may not ask you these things, depending on how your computer is configured.)
To view PDFs, you will need to set where your viewer is. Go to Build --- Define output profiles -- Viewer and enter path of excecutable

You can use Adobe Viewer. Or, you can use GSview. GSview also requires Ghostscript.

Here is the full download for a mac. It will give you an editor and the underlying LaTex distribution:

. Too simple, isn't it.