Both MiKTeX and TeX Live include a ‘full’ set of TeX-related binaries, including the engines pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and support programs such as BibTeX, Biber, MakeIndex and Xindy.(There’s a close relationship between W32TeX and TeX Live, with W32TeX more ‘focussed’ and expecting more user decisions in installing.)Īssuming you are going for one of the ‘big two’, what is there to think about? For most people, it’s simply: I’ve mentioned this before: it’s popular in the far East and is where the Windows binaries for TeX Live come from.
It’s also worth noting that there is a third option: W32TeX. The first thing to say is that for almost all ‘end users’ (with a TeX system on their own PC just for them to use), both options are fine: they’ll probably notice no difference between the two in use. (I know from my logs that this is one of the most popular topics I’ve covered!) Over the past few years both systems have developed, so it seems like a good time to revisit this. I’ve looked at this before a couple of times: first in 2009 then again in 2011.
On Windows, users have two main choices of TeX system to install: TeX Live or MiKTeX.
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