Pdflatex for windows

Question

Does anyone know how to convert .tex files to .pdf in windows? I tried cygwin but it said the command \"pdflatex\" was not recognised

Thanks Philip

Answer 1

There's no reason to complicate things with Cygwin. Go download and install a TeX distribution for Windows - I personally use TeX Live, but various other distributions are available, such as MikTeX or W32TeX.

If you want to use UTF-8 for your bibliography, and you're using BibTeX, I recommend using bibtexu instead of the regular bibtex (since bibtex doesn't actually support UTF-8). There's a download on the W32TeX site.