Writing a paper is a painful task, but necessary. To do it as easily as possible, I use several tools, that can help me. (There was none before a decade, but since then a lot of tools are created.) As a lot of time has passed, I almost forgot I already considered the tools. I'll use the following tools.
- cygwin tex live: the most popular latex package
- Notepad++: editor to write the actual paper tex file
- Acroread: to view pdf files
- make: automatically create the final file .pdf
The creating documents are following .tex -> .dvi -> .pdf sequences. So the final pdf file is to view and examine.