Re: [MiKTeX] FREE software to write .tex files

[Arnout S. <arn...@st...>]

> Is there some FREE software (like WinEDT) that could help me to write .tex
> files in an easy way?

Some editors for Windows (some very basic, some very advanced):

- emacs or Xemacs:
    http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq.html
    http://www.xemacs.org
- TeXnicCenter:
    http://www.toolscenter.org/products/texniccenter/
- TclTeXed:
    http://tcltexed.sourceforge.net/
- WinTeXShell:
    http://www.projectory.de/texshell/index.html

Personally, I prefer WinEdt because it's very customizable and very well
integrated with MikTeX. Allthough emacs or Xemacs can surely be customized
to perform at least as well.
Something else is LyX, it allows you to create LaTeX documents in kind of a
WYSIWYG manner. Keep in mind that LyX-generated LaTeX files aren't generally
as readable as human-written LaTeX, and it's hard to manually edit the files
later, not to mention re-importing them in LyX.

- LyX:
    http://www.lyx.org/

Regards,
Wald