Information

• Version: MiKTeX 2.4
• Version: WinEdt 5.4
• Install Date: December 2005

MiKTeX is a software distribution for Windows, which includes TeX and TeX-related applications. MiKTeX is mostly a collection of command-line oriented utilities, and is typically used with a TeX shell/editor such as WinEdt. For more information, see http://www.miktex.org/index.html.

When creating a LaTeX document, you will not open MiKTeX; instead you will open WinEdt. WinEdt (shareware) is widely used as a front-end for compilers and typesetting systems (such as MiKTeX). It is not a TeX system, but rather a powerful, extremely flexible and versatile native editor and shell for MS Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents. For more information, see http://www.winedt.com/.

For reading on LaTeX, see "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e".

For a sample TeX file and postscript file, download the following:

• sample2.tex (this is the sample LaTeX source file that you can open in WinEdt)
• postscript figure (to run sample2.tex, you will need to have this postscript figure saved in the same directory)
• sample2.ps (this is the finished document, i.e. the results of sample2.tex)
• sample2 zip file (to download all three files at once, use this zip file)

If you want to install MiKTeX and WinEDT on your personal computer, see the installation instructions.