Acquiring L^ATEX

You can find complete L^ATEX systems for your own particular operating system here.

In the Unix and Macintosh worlds, TeXLive is the most common L^ATEX distribution; the older teTeX distribution is still functional but deprecated. In the Windows world, the current recommendation is the protext distribution, which installs miktex and a whole host of useful auxiliary applications.

You can use any editor to write L^ATEX code. A list of editors that many people have found useful can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX in the ``Front Ends'' section. Some of our favorites include:

• Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ (Windows and Unix)
• XEmacs http://www.xemacs.org/ (Windows and Unix)
• Kile http://kile.sourceforge.net/ (Unix only)
• The L^ATEX Editor (Windows only)