Need a good viewer for TeX files for Windows or Linux

MGMorden

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I've got a CompSci exam on Friday and the teacher put up some of his old exams in TeX format (I'm partial to PDF myself) but I can't find a viewer (I found something called MikTex but it's not working very well). Anyone know a good one for Windows or Linux (not picky right now, just need to study . . .)?
 

BHard

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Hi,

do you just want to look at the TeX files or do you want to compile them to postscript?
Looking at the files is easy...you can open it in Notepad. A good editor (freeware) is TeXnicCenter:

http://www.toolscenter.org/products/texniccenter/

To compile the TeX input files with TeX, you can use MikTeX. teXnicCenter recognizes the install of MikTeX, so you can compile your input files from within TeXnicCenter.

Hope it helps,

BHard
 

fow99

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<< I've got a CompSci exam on Friday and the teacher put up some of his old exams in TeX format (I'm partial to PDF myself) but I can't find a viewer (I found something called MikTex but it's not working very well). Anyone know a good one for Windows or Linux (not picky right now, just need to study . . .)? >>



Yeah. Like bHard said. I don't understand your question. TeX files are just plain text files and you can view them with any text editor. If you want to gui wysiwyg app, try lyx under Linux. I don't know if they have a Windows version or not.
 

MGMorden

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I was looking for something that would format the document properly (I've opened it already but there's a lot of formatting tags that make it hard to read in plain text). The HTML thing or lyx will probably work fine though. I'm just trying to get them into something I can easily read over and/or print out.
 

pedrog

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Depending on the linux system that you have you may have TeTeX installed.

Try typing

%latex

at the command prompt.

tetex is pretty good, if you have it you can create the document using the

%tetex filename.tex

This will create a file called filename.dvi

At this point you can use xdvi to view the dvi file or use dvips to create a postscript file, and if you need a pdf ps2pdf will create a pdf file.
I've also had pretty good luck with latex2html...

There is also a utility to convert a TeX source file directly to pdf -> pdflatex
 

MGMorden

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Thanks guys. Latex worked (I didn't have it on my machine but the solaris machines on campus had it so I just used it there via ssh). After I got the files in dvi format then MikTex (which I downloaded earlier) viewed them fine.