This is not my intention to rewrite an extensive documentation about how to use a TeX system: there exists many books and documents on the subject and some of them are packaged in the distribution, like “The Components of TeX” and the “Gentle Introduction to LaTeX” that you can find in the texmf/doc/guides directory once everything is installed.
So, if you are new to this, please refer to these guides before going any further.
Rather, I will try to focus on the specific features to Win32 of fpTeX. This means that whenever there are common features with Web2C or teTeX , I will refer to the appropriate document. You can already get a copy of the three following ones:
You can find the HTML counterpart of these documents in texmf/doc/html/tds/tds_toc.html, texmf/doc/html/tds/kpathsea_toc.html and texmf/doc/html/tds/web2c_toc.html respectively.
This document should help you to download, setup and run the TeX system on your computer. The roadmap will be as follows :