Is there a command line tool for laTex in windows?

Question

I'm searching of a command line tool that can show latex like below properly in a prompt:

\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = \alpha \nabla^2 u

Anyone knows about such a tool?

Answer 1

What exactly do you mean? A command you can run from cmd.exe which will render such LaTeX code in a new window, or one that will render it on the console?

Either way, you would presumably need to feed it a complete LaTeX document, one way or another -- one with a preamble, a document environment, and (in this case) some kind of equation environment. See, for instance, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure.

Answer 2

Not exactly sure what you're asking for, but if there's a tool already that does it in a UNIX prompt or on XServer, you might want to checkout using Cygwin for this. I know a variety of LaTeX tools are bundled in with cygwin.