Going that route, running VMware player with a Linux pre-built Linux appliance can give you the best of both worlds. You can also do this with VirtualBox if you don't like VMware.
But MikTeX & something like Vim or GNU emacs is a pretty good windows-based TeX platform. Or Scientific Workplace is pretty powerful option if you don't mind spending money. --Bob On 06/04/09 18:27 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Jon Forrest wrote: > >> Geoff Galitz wrote: >> >>> Can anyone recommend a good tex editor for the Windows Vista >>> platform? There are a lot of options out there on the web, but many >>> of them seem squirrely to me (too many required additional components >>> or limited usability). > > There's also cygwin, which has lots of advantages -- a linux-like > environment that is almost a "free VM" under windows. IIRC it has a > full tex implementation (for free, of course) and emacs and several > other tools. I can boot up my personal Windows VM and check if you > like, or you can go ahead and directly install it to check. > Installation is rather easy if you have a high BW channel. > > rgb > >> >> I happily use Windows as my desktop OS, even though my >> job is mainly to manage Unix machines. The "vim" editor, >> which is what you get on Linux and MacOS, has an excellent >> implementation for Windows. >> >> Cordially, >> -- >> Jon Forrest >> Research Computing Support >> College of Chemistry >> 173 Tan Hall >> University of California Berkeley >> Berkeley, CA >> 94720-1460 >> 510-643-1032 >> jlforr...@berkeley.edu >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:r...@phy.duke.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
