WinShell Installation

Following these 3 steps [plus 2 optional] will lead to a working
LATEX environment.

-> LATEX package
   A LATEX package is required. There are two common ones:
   MiKTeX: http://www.miktex.org/
   TeXLive: http://www.texlive.org/
   These packages can also be found at the different TEX communities:
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/ Germany
   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/ England
   ftp://ctan.tug.org/ USA
   The LATEX packages are located at: /pub/tex/systems/win32/

-> PDF viewer
   A PDF viewer has to be installed to view .pdf documents. There are
   several possibilities, e.g. with Foxit Reader, GSViewer, Adobe
   Reader or Sumatra PDF:
   Sumatra PDF: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
   Foxit Reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
   GSView: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
   Adobe Reader: http://www.adobe.com/
   Sumatra PDF supports SyncTeX which allows forward and inverse
   search in .pdf documents.

-> PostScript viewer [optional]
   A PostScript viewer is optional and not necessary if the focus is
   on creating .pdf documents.
   To view the PostScript files install PostScript and the GSviewer:
   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html

-> WinShell
   WinShell comes as a zip file and as a complete setup program. Only ONE
   is needed!
   Zip file: Extract the zip file to the directory of your choice and
             start WinShell.exe
   Setup program: The setup program copies all the WinShell files to a
                  specific directory, e.g. C:\Program Files\WinShell.
                  Registry entries are made for the .tex and the .wsp files.

   When WinShell starts for the first time, the following files will be
   created in a directory depending on the OS (Operating System) version
   you are running:
   WinShellMacros.bmp
   WinShellUserTools.bmp
   WinShell.ini
   WinShell.macros
   WinShellDict.txt
   WinShell.bibtex_fields
   WinShell.bibtex_types
   By default, WinShell tries to find the executable files by searching
   the registry. The LATEX binary path should be added to the environment
   variable PATH in the autoexec.bat (depending on the OS version). 
   That is why WinShell should be installed in the last stage of the LATEX
   installation procedure.

-> SpellChecker [optional]
   For spell checking download a dictionary from
   http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
   and copy it to the Dictionaries folder in the WinShell folder,
   e.g. C:\Program Files\WinShell\Dictionaries

