[texhax] Help please

[Axel E. Retif]

On  14 Apr, 2009, at 10:08, Boumediene TOUIL wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> I am PhD student in Physics in Algeria and I'd like to type the  
> manuscript of my thesis in Latex format. It's really top.
> Unfortunately, here at home, this software is unobtainable.
> Please Sir, can you send me the DVD TeX Collection (http://www.tug.org/texcollection/texcollection2008.png 
> ) which includes the french version of ProTeXt and Tex Live for  
> windows VISTA.
> I wish to inform you, Sir, that my reasons do not allow me to buy it.

I'm just a TUG member, and I don't know if there is a French version  
of proTeXt or TeX Live, if by that you mean a French graphic user  
interface of the installer; if you mean support for writing LaTeX  
documents in French, every TeX distribution has it.

And you don't need the DVD to get proTeXt or TeX Live (moreover, you  
don't need *both*, as both are TeX distributions); you can get either  
one from the Internet.

TeX Live:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html

(see the section TeX Live installation over the Internet);

proTeXt:

http://www.tug.org/protext/

For a LaTeX front-end, many people use TeXnicCenter:

http://www.texniccenter.org/

But maybe you'll like TeXmaker (with by default has English, French,  
German and Chinese user interfaces):

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

Best,

Axel