[texhax] Latex on Windows

Uwe Ziegenhagen ziegenhagen at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 20:54:20 CEST 2012


2012/7/18 great guy <man961.great at gmail.com>

> I have been using Latex daily for several years.  Mostly using 'pdflatex'
> as part of cygwin on Windows.
>
> Today I tried to setup my machine at my new job to process some of the
> Latex documents I had written.  I found the old way I download Latex is no
> longer working.   I cannot find 'tetex' within cygwin so I downloaded
> TexLive.  After installing I write to compile my .tex file using 'pdflatex'
> and seems like it is not part of TexLive.
>
> I felt stuck since I rely on Latex for all my writings.
>
> Is there a page or link I should view to learn how to install Latex
> properly on cygwin?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Manny Ko
>
> --
> When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know
> peace.  Jimmi Hendrix
>
>
>
Do you have any specific reason to use LaTeX with Cygwin? TeX Live runs
great under Windows so IMHO there may be no reason to stick to Cygwin.

Uwe


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Uwe Ziegenhagen
<http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
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