Latex Guide
A LTEX – a complete setup for Windows Joachim Schlosser December 24, 2012 http://www.latexbuch.de/install-latex-windows-7/
A To use L TEX is one thing, and very good introductions exist for learning. But A what do you need for installing a L TEX system on Windows? What do I do with MiKTEX, why do I need Ghostscript, what’s TeXmaker, and why many people favor Emacs, and above all, how does everything fit together? This tutorial shall save the search an show step by step what you need and how to setup the individual components.
I am always happy about suggestions and notes on possible errors. When reporting by mail, please always include the file date: December 24, 2012 Many thanks to a number of readers for suggestions and corrections. The correct addresses for this document are: • http://www.latexbuch.de/files/latexsystem-en.pdf for the PDF version and • http://www.latexbuch.de/install-latex-windows-7/ for the HTML-page. The German version is available via http://www.latexbuch.de/latex-windows-7-installieren/
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Contents
A 1 Everyone can set up L TEX
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2 What do you need at all?
3.5 3.6 3.7
3 Installation and Configuration 4 3.1 Download and install MiKTEX 5 3.2 Graphics Preparation and Conversion 5 3.3 Configure Texmaker 5 3.4 Configure Emacs 5
A 1 Everyone can set up LTEX
File Types Setup 7 Remedy if you have Admin Rights 8 Install TeX4ht and ImageMagick 8 8
4 And now? Usage
5 If something fails 10 6 Prospect 10
A L TEX is not just a program but a language and a methodology of describing documents A and gets used via a L TEX system. With that not only scientific papers can be prepared, but also excellent letters, presentation and much more. For all that have not worked with free software so far it may be strange in the beginning to have to integrate different components to a system on their own, and some will not easily have the heart to do so. For this I present my own environment that I use to generate from A L TEX Postscript
A To use L TEX is one thing, and very good introductions exist for learning. But A what do you need for installing a L TEX system on Windows? What do I do with MiKTEX, why do I need Ghostscript, what’s TeXmaker, and why many people favor Emacs, and above all, how does everything fit together? This tutorial shall save the search an show step by step what you need and how to setup the individual components.
I am always happy about suggestions and notes on possible errors. When reporting by mail, please always include the file date: December 24, 2012 Many thanks to a number of readers for suggestions and corrections. The correct addresses for this document are: • http://www.latexbuch.de/files/latexsystem-en.pdf for the PDF version and • http://www.latexbuch.de/install-latex-windows-7/ for the HTML-page. The German version is available via http://www.latexbuch.de/latex-windows-7-installieren/
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Contents
A 1 Everyone can set up L TEX
2 3
2 What do you need at all?
3.5 3.6 3.7
3 Installation and Configuration 4 3.1 Download and install MiKTEX 5 3.2 Graphics Preparation and Conversion 5 3.3 Configure Texmaker 5 3.4 Configure Emacs 5
A 1 Everyone can set up LTEX
File Types Setup 7 Remedy if you have Admin Rights 8 Install TeX4ht and ImageMagick 8 8
4 And now? Usage
5 If something fails 10 6 Prospect 10
A L TEX is not just a program but a language and a methodology of describing documents A and gets used via a L TEX system. With that not only scientific papers can be prepared, but also excellent letters, presentation and much more. For all that have not worked with free software so far it may be strange in the beginning to have to integrate different components to a system on their own, and some will not easily have the heart to do so. For this I present my own environment that I use to generate from A L TEX Postscript
References: [11] David Kastrup. »Revisiting WYSIWYG paradigms for authoring LaTeX«. In: TUGboat 23.1 (Nov. 2002), [15] pp. 57–64. [12] LibPNG. URL: http://www.gtk.org/ [16] download/win32.php. [13] Thorsten Maerz. GNU Aspell (Win32 version). URL: http : / / aspell . net / [17] win32/. [14] Frank Neukam, Markus Kohm, and Axel Kielhorn. Das KOMA-Script Paket. package documentation. Sept. 2002. Christian Schenk. MikTeX Setup. URL: http://www.miktex.org/2.9/setup. Joachim Schlosser. EPS Writer für Windows. URL: http://schlosser.info/ epswriter. Joachim Schlosser. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten schreiben mit LaTeX. 4th ed. mitp Verlag, May 26, 2011. ISBN: 9783-8266-9102-7. URL: http : / / www . latexbuch.de. 11