Kile on KDE for windows

[Stuart Jarvis]

Hi,

>> On 18 Dec 2014, at 19:41, S Annan <sayn200 at aol.com> wrote:
>> i installed kde for windows but found that kile does not have a lot
>> of the essential binaries; particularly LaTeX and TeX. Am i doing
>> something wrong?
>> 
On 2014-12-19 11:44, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> I don’t use Kile, but isn’t Kile just an editor? You can get a TeX
> distribution from MikTeX.

I did this a couple fo years back for my partner (she was on Windows 7; 
she'd used Kile a little on my Linux machine and liked it). As Bastiaan 
said, MikTeX was the solution - I don't remember the details, but I 
think we just did a fairly complete install* of MikTeX and then 
(possibly) had to point Kile to the relevant files in Kile's 
configuration dialogs.

It wasn't perfect - line returns got inserted  (or removed?) in the text 
on save (Windows thing, I guess) though not in the generated PDF output 
so it wasn't a big deal - but it worked well enough for her to complete 
her 200+ page PhD, illustration-heavy, thesis with minimal pain. We 
never got live previews working.

She used jabref as the BibTeX manager rather than KBiBTeX. I think we 
had installation issues with KBibTeX, but I'm not sure. Was a long time 
ago so might be better now and I personally much prefer KBibTeX.

Good luck!

Stu

* I think we first tried installing particular components, but kept 
finding bits we needed and had missed, so in the end ticked just about 
everything.