[texhax] TeX or LaTeX "engine" for Windows PC

[Dr R. Hasson]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     interested in using an existing TeX package such as MiKTeX
> 
> If you install a minimal subset of miktex (or tex live), you'll pretty
> much have "bare bones" TeX.  A binary by itself is of no use; it needs
> many supporting font and macro files to actually typeset anything.
> That's what the distributions are all about.

For a program that doesn't need all the supporting font and macro 
definitions you could look at mimeTeX:
  http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html
it converts tex input into gifs for inclusion in web pages, but the 
original poster might be able to modify it to suit.


Robert.