A LTEX a complete setup for Windows Joachim Schlosser June 15, 2009 <joachim at schlosser.info> http://schlosser.

info/latexsystem-en

A To use L TEX is one thing, an very qualitative introductions exist for that. 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, whats Texmaker, and why many people favor Emacs, and above all, how does everything t together? The information often has to be collected from various different sources, and sometimes some parts seem not to match, while one only has searched in the wrong place. This tutorial shall save the search an show step by step what you need and how to setup and use the individual components.

I am always happy on suggestions and notes on possible errors. When reporting, please always include the version number: Revision: 1529 Date: 2009-06-12 22:22:28 +0200 (Fr, 12 Jun 2009) This translation is at the beginning of its lifecycle. There will denitely be mistakes. I will do my best to nd and x them. If you feel to do so, give me hints how to improve. Many thanks to a number of readers for suggestions and corrections. This document exists in HTML as well as in PDF 1.51 . The correct URLs are: http://schlosser.info/downloads/latexsystem-en.pdf for the PDF version and http://schlosser.info/latexsystem-en for the HTML-page. A German version is available: http://schlosser.info/latexsystem
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Reader 6.0 or newer or Ghostscript/GSview required.

Contents
1 Intention 2 3.2 3.3 3.4 2 Overviewing the used Software Packages 3 A 2.1 L TEX Distribution: MiKTEX 3 2.2 Editor 3 2.2.1 Texmaker 3 2.2.2 Emacs + RefTeX + AUCTeX + Ispell 4 2.3 Graphics in Postscript with Ghostscript 4 2.4 HTML translation 5 2.5 Summary 5 2.6 Licensing 5 3 Installation and Conguration 6 3.1 Download and install MiKTEX 6 Graphics Preparation and Conversion 6 Congure Texmaker 7 Congure Emacs 7 3.4.1 AUCTEX + RefTEX 8 3.4.2 Ispell 8 Setup of the File Types 8 Install latest TeX4ht 9 Installation complete 10

3.5 3.6 3.7

4 Usage 10 4.1 TeX4ht usage 10 4.2 Graphics conversion 11 5 If something fails 11 6 Prospect 12

1 Intention
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 scientic 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 and PDF as well as HTML. A This is not a introduction to L TEX, there are some excellent documents available in the net as well as books are. For beginners the best will be the Not so short introduction to A A L TEX 2 , delivered with approximately every L TEX distribution in <texmf>/doc/guides/ lshort-german/, or to be downloaded from CTAN.org2 . Essential also is the UK TEX FAQ, to be obtained from the UK TeX Archive3 . Then we should mention l2tabu, that lists obsolete commands and packages and their alternatives. Not to forget is the documentation of the KOMAScript bundle, a widespread class library, that answers additionA ally a lot of typographic questions. It can be found in every better L TEX distribution in <texmf>/doc/latex/koma-script/. If you have severe problems with installation although using this tutorial, or have anA other question related to L TEX, should not write to me personally but search in the Internet

2 CTAN

is the abbreviation for Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, the complete collection of TEX related software. 3 Fairbairns, Robin: TeX Frequently Asked Questions. http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq.

2 Overviewing the used Software Packages and the FAQ. In case of continuous confusion you can post in the newsgroup comp.text.tex4 . Most questions can be answered there, and also concerning Windows installation this is preferrable, because answers are for everyones benets and numerous competent users and developers read along. A last important note: This tutorial is not a substitute for the original documentations of the particular programs and building blocks 5 . In case of errors or warnings, consult the documentation of the particular program. This tutorial exclusively cares for the mentioned programs. Sections concerning E MACS, as an example, cannot be transferred for XEmacs without special care. More recent versions of programs usually are no problem (without guarantee).

2 Overviewing the used Software Packages

In order to be able to work efciently, besides the main TEX distribution different components are needed. A summary of all programs installed at my site and their versions can be found in section 2.5.
A 2.1 LTEX Distribution: MiKTEX
A The L TEX distribution is the core of the system. It contains the most important programs needed for generation of DVI, Postscript and PDF, and all additional packages that offer extended possibilities as e. g. musical typesetting, standard layouts for different organizations, layout specialties, etc. . I use MiKTEX 2.7. In my opinion this distribution is easy to install, works quite good and is updated regularly. Depending on the users choice, 30 up to 500 MB are to be downloaded. Alternatively anot always up to date CD ROM can be ordered.

2.2 Editor
The distribution is only responsible to transform an input to an output. The input itself is created with the editor of your choice. My choice is GNU E MACS. Besides that I want to mention T EXMAKER. 2.2.1 Texmaker
A For keeping the beginning with L TEX as simple as possible, I recommend T EXMAKER as 6 , differing from my personal setup. Editor For pure mouse oriented users T EXMAKER is likely to be the more comfortable Editor of the both mentioned here. T EXMAKER is well updated and convenient to use, because besides graphical menus for most mathematical symbols and all relevant commands it shows so called tool tips during typing of commands. Pre-dened output proles and
4 Search

can be performed, instead of using a news client like Thunderbird, with the web interface on http: //groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex 5 Regarding this, see my post in de.comp.text.tex (in German) 6 Formerly this section recommended T E X NIC C ENTER . Because of its development seemingly ceased, and the better stability of T EXMAKER I decided for a change

2 Overviewing the used Software Packages

A much more make it a quite usable editor. Especially for a newbie in L TEX T EXMAKER is recommendable if E MACS is unknown. Finally it is enough to have to learn one concept in the beginning. Later you can and should switch to the professional tool E MACS. Nevertheless it has to be stressed that T EXMAKER misses many features that are ordinary in E MACS, e. g. a numerated table of contents view or a powerful handling of labels and cites. The integrated spell-checker also does not show the quality as I SPELL/A SPELL does A for E MACS. The help function is present, but mainly bothers with L TEX, special hints on the editor are quite sparse.

2.2.2 Emacs + RefTeX + AUCTeX + Ispell

A If you already have worked with L TEX under UNIX, you might have used E MACS, one of the most powerful GNU software. I did not only decide to switch to E MACS due to the core editor but because of the addA ons AUCT E X and R EF T E X. AUCT E X offers keyboard shortcuts for all important L TEX constructs, speeding up work signicantly. On insertion of cross references, R EF T E X lets the user select one out of a list of all existing labels, and does help with generation of these labels. Insertion of bibliographic cites is much more efcient and fast with R EF T E X, too. In any case it is a good idea to read introductions or tutorials for E MACS and AUCT E X and to get the Emacs reference card from www.refcards.com. The initial learning effort pays out, it is more that compensated by fast and efcient working. Moreover you do not have to miss a spell checker in E MACS. It is called I SPELL and integrated into the editor quite good. A Windows port that I equipped with an installer for easier usage can be downloaded from my home page7 . It contains dictionaries for English and German. Additional languanges like new German, French, Italian, etc. can easily be found in the net. A The last add-on to be mentioned is the WYSIWYG8 plugin P REVIEW-L TEX, which shows a preview of formulas, graphics and tables as they will look later on in the generated document. This merges the best from both worlds WYSIWYG and ofine editing9 . Formulas, A e. g. are edited in the powerful L TEX syntax but shown as preview immediately after editing them, so it is more simple to navigate within the document and to cross-read without the need to open a second window with the generated output of the document. For the A installation of P REVIEW-L TEX, besides G HOSTSCRIPT, a shell environment is needed. For this MS YS from the Minimalist GNU for Windows project (MinGW) is perfectly appropriate. E MACS offers e. g. a button bar and is fully congurable by menus, completed by a fabulous online help.

2.3 Graphics in Postscript with Ghostscript

For UNIX users it is unquestionable, for Windows users initially strange: The usage of Postscript as exchange format for vector graphics of every kind. Following this paradigm, A it is best to link graphics as (Encapsulated) Postscript (PS/EPS) in L TEX.
7 http://schlosser.info/latex 8 Abbreviation

for What-you-see-is-what-you-get: Already at edit time you see the document or parts of it in a way that is similar to the nal result. 9 Kastrup, David: Revisiting WYSIWYG paradigms for authoring LaTeX. TUGboat, 23 November 2002 Nr. 1.

2 Overviewing the used Software Packages From all Windows applications with their le formats, e. g. existing Word- or PowerPoint drawings, Bitmaps or vector les like CorelDraw, Postscript can be generated without problems even if the application does not support this directly. It becomes possible by printing through a Postscript printer driver into a le, particularly the driver for the Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600. For viewing existing Postscript les and to make small changes you need G HOSTSCRIPT with its graphical front-end GS VIEW. A With these rst three components the primary task of L TEX can be solved perfectly: The generation of printer- and camera-ready, perfectly typesetted documents.

2.4 HTML translation

T E X4 HT has the advantage that it is contained as package in the M I KT E X distribution10 . Though, if you want the absolutely most recent version, you should and can install it without problems. Usually this is not necessary, but can be useful if you want or have to get updates even before they appear in M I KTEX. T E X4 HT, regardless whether packaged or self-installed, needs the program I MAGE M AG ICK for graphics conversion, which is installed very quickly and easily.

2.5 Summary
The included package sizes mean the download sizes, not the space needed for installation.

Program MiKTEX Texmaker GNU Emacs AUCTeX Ispell Win32 Ghostscript GSview TeX4ht ImageMagick

Size MB 50400 MB 6 MB 39 MB 1 MB 1,5 MB 10 MB 1,5 MB 1,5 MB 9,5 MB ca. 455 MB

Resource http://www.miktex.org http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ http://schlosser.info/latex http://ghostscript.com/releases/ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/ http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html http://www.imagemagick.org

2.6 Licensing
All of the programs mentioned in this tutorial are at least free of charge, in most cases even free software11 . All licenses state that the distribution is allowed. Most of them allow furthermore to change the source code, whereas some of them prohibit commercial sale.
10 For

11 Which as is generally known is a difference to free of charge:

usage see documentation in <texmf>/doc/html/tex4ht. Free as free speech, not free beer. See the pages of the Free Software Foundation at http://www.fsf.org.

3 Installation and Conguration Despite the basic free-of-chargeness you have the possibility to reciprocate the individual projects nancially. See the projects web pages.

3 Installation and Conguration

My system runs on Windows 2000 Professional. Some access paths to certain congurations may deviate under Windows 98/ME from the described. For Windows XP it should be widely identical. Access paths denominate entries in the start menu, buttons and menu entries with their particular captions. For all directories to choose it is desirable that the directories names do contain no spaces as this sometimes may cause problems. So better use C:\Programs than C:\ProgramFiles and better C:\MyUser instead of C:\DocumentsandSettings\MyUser. The step sequence is to be followed tightly due to program dependencies. This tutorial is self consistant, meaning all directories t together. If you use another directory for a program you have to care for this in subsequent steps on your own.

3.1 Download and install MiKTEX

First of all get the web installer from http://www.miktex.org and run it. Now you have to think on what you want, because there are the alternatives Basic and Complete. If you are connected to the Internet with broadband, it is best to get Complete, otherwise the other one. When you get more familiar with MikTEX, you can download single packages on request, so that limited connection to the Internet is no obstacle. Alternatively you can order a CD"=ROM of MikTEX, updated several times per year. The installation itself is quite easy: Simply click on continue until the installer nishes, accepting all defaults. All programs can then be started directly from command line. Those peferring some pictures in install manuals can also take12 into account for installing M IK TEX.

3.2 Graphics Preparation and Conversion

You best start with the Postscript printer driver. It gets congured by Start Settings Printers Add Printer. First you select local printer and as adapter the FILE port, the right printer driver is the Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600. The printer name is best set to Postscript File. After installation do the following settings under Start Settings Printers Postscript File Printer Printer Settings Advanced Document Options Postscript Settings: Set Postscript-Output to Optimal Portability and TrueType Download to Contour. The ICM Color Matching should be deactivated for avoidance of color adulterations. The Print Quality Mode should be Best.

12 Schenk,

Christian: The MiKTeX Installation Procedure. 2004 http://www.dante.de/help/documentation/ miktex/.

3 Installation and Conguration From now on every Windows application can produce Postscript les, simply by using the new printer. The generated lewhich should be given the le extension .ps instead of the default .prncan be viewed in GS VIEW and converted to EPS. For automatic further processing it is best to install G HOSTSCRIPT, obtained from http://ghostscript.com/releases/. Nothing special to bear in mind (simply Enter until nished). Because of the possible wish to view Postscript le for checkup, get and install GS VIEW from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/, the graphical front end of G HOSTSCRIPT. During the installation, do set the directory to C:\Programme\Ghostscript, too, and also as program group specify the same as suggested during the installation of G HOSTSCRIPT. It exceedingly useful to add G HOSTSCRIPT to the search path. So again, in Start Settings Control Panel System Advanced Environment Variables add to the variable PATH the respective directory, e. g. C:\Programme\Ghostscript\gs8.54\bin, separated by a colon. Attention: No spaces before or after entries of the PATH variable! In order to simplify work in the long run I recommend to setup an EPS Printer, for this I have a short tutorial, too13 .

3.3 Congure Texmaker

T EXMAKER, to be obtained from http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/, is installed quite rapidly: Like with M I KTEX simply accept all installer defaults. At the rst start T EX MAKER asks whether it should congure itself for usage with M I KTEX, which you afrm and accept all defaults.

3.4 Congure Emacs

E MACS is likely to be the most powerful editor of all, but requires several steps for installation, for that the installation is to be exercised. One defect of Windows has to be xed rst: the absence of the environment variable14 HOME. For this create a new entry in Start Settings Control Panel System Advanced Environment Variables15 , named HOME and assign some path in which you like to have saved all individual settings16 . The directory name may not contain any spaces (see section 3)! For all environment variables it is to be reckoned that if you want to set an environment variable just for the current user, you create it in User Variables. If they should apply to all users, create them in System Variables. We need E MACS in its version 2.22, which we download from http://www.de-mirrors.de/gnuftp/emacs/windows/emacs-22.2-bin-i386.zip, and AUCT E X as precompiled package, to get from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/ auctex-11.85-e22.2-msw.zip. Unpack the EMACS archive emacs-22.2-bin-i386.zip
13 Schlosser, Joachim: EPS Writer fr Windows. http://schlosser.info/epswriter, only in German, sorry.

But Google Trans will do a fair job, I had a look on it. 14 Environment variables allow to set paths or generally strings independent of particular applications, and use them with all applications. 15 To be accessed much faster by keyboard shortcut Windows key+break, by the way. 16 I recommend to create such a HOME directory on another partition that the system partition and set the environment variable accordingly. Keeping data and settings on one partition and separatedly programs on another allows to get more rapidly and without loss of data a working system after a serious crash.

3 Installation and Conguration into the programs directory, resulting in a directory like e. g. C:\Programme\emacs. In exactly this directory then unzip the archive auctex-11.85-e22.2-msw.zip, overwriting at least one le. Most unzippers ask before doing that. For easier starting E MACS, in directory C:\Programme\emacs\bin run the installer addpm. exe and accept the settings. This creates a shortcut in the Windows start menu. With this, Emacs is ready to run. 3.4.1 AUCTEX + RefTEX The integration of AUCT E X with R EF T E X has to be activated separatedly. For this, start E MACS and use it to create the conguration le .emacs within you HOME directory (UNIX shortcut name ~) with C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET17 . Here you add the following lines: (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t) (require 'tex-mik) Then save the le by C-x C-s, close Emcas with C-x C-c, and the setup is completed. The installation was successful, if when opening a .tex le in the menu bar new entries Preview and LaTeX appear. If you want faster and smaller preview images, you have to get an additional graphics library from XXXX. A When being in PDF mode (C-c C-t C-p), you now can call Preview-L TEX with C-c Cp C-d.

3.4.2 Ispell I SPELL can be installed quite easily by means of my distribution18 . The suggested directory can be accepted condently. Additionally the program gets o added to the search path. Attention: the environment variable HOME must already exist in advance.

3.5 Setup of the File Types

Only as a further simplication we create a new le type. First we need a little add-on to E MACS, allowing to open further les in an already running E MACS Window. The add-on is called EMACSSERV, and comes along with EMACS. Now create a new le type. For this, open a command window and type19 : ftype Emacs.Document=C:\Programme\emacs\bin\emacsclient.exe -n -a C:\ Programme\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe "%1"

Then we can assign several le name extensions to this type. We do this for .tex and .ltx by typing
So translates to: Ctrl-x, Ctrl-f, type /.emacs, press Enter. The / means the le to be located within your HOME directory 18 Schlosser, Joachim: Ispell compiled for Windows. http://schlosser.info/latex. 19 I know that the command window could be suppressed by calling emacsclientw.exe. Unfortunately a bug leads to an error message at the rst call. This also is true for the command line version, but it does not distract the user because it has not to be acknowledged.
17 The shortcut C-x stands for the keyboard combination Ctrl-x, other keys equivalent.

3 Installation and Conguration assoc .tex=Emacs.Document assoc .ltx=Emacs.Document From then on double clicking a .tex le leads to execution of E MACS. T EXMAKER can do this setting on its own, you get asked at rst start of the program. The assoc command I additionally execute for the le name extensions .sty, .cls, .lco and .bib. Now E MACS is completely congured and you can start working with the most powerful A L TEX editor. These were the last steps for conguring a system for generation of printer and camera ready documents in PDF or Postscript. If you do not want to generate HTML, you are basically done here.

3.6 Install latest TeX4ht

T E X4 HT is included in M I KT E X and, if you selected the total installation, already on your hard disk for usage. However, if you nd an improvement in the change log of T E X4 HT on http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/bugfixes.html20 that you want to use (like I do usually), you should download the current package from that site. The precondition for T E X4 HT on the one hand is G HOSTSCRIPT that we installed in a previous section, and on the other hand I MAGE M AGICK, which gets congured as follows: Get the Windows executable from the I MAGE M AGICK web site under Downloads21 and install it. Simply acknowledge the defaults, then the converter program is added to your search path. For safety the M IK T E X packages for T E X4 HT should be removed. Call the MikTeX package manager (mpm.exe) and un-install the packages tex4ht and miktex-tex4ht-bin. Simply select and click the minus sign. Now we start installing the literal T E X4 HT. For this, get the latest package from the T E X4 T bugx page http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/bugfixes.html22 , it has a name like tex4ht-x.y.jjjj_mm_dd_hhss.tar.gz. Unpack it to C:\. All recent packers should accept and process .tar.gz. In C:\ you now should have a directory named similar to tex4ht-x.y.jjjj_mm_dd_hhss. Rename this directory to tex4ht. Then move the contents of the subdirectory C:\tex4ht\texmf\tex to c:\localtexmf\tex. You may have to create the target directory rst. For making the new les known to the TEX-System, open a command line (Start Run cmd) and call: initexmf -u Then the executables have to be added to the search path. As in other places an entry to the environment variable PATH has to be added. So again utilize Start Settings Control Panel System Advanced Environment Variables and edit the variable PATH to insert the directory C:\tex4ht\bin\win32; before the entry for c:\texmf\miktex\bin, in case of need at the very beginning.
20 The 21 ImageMagick

link Log of modications at the bottom of the page. Windows Binaries. http://imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows. 22 Besides the regular T E X4 HT distribution there exists a package with a M I KT E X adapted version. I have no experience with that, but I do not consider a special version necessary.

4 Usage Finally adapt the conguration le of T E X4 HT. For this, open the le c:\tex4ht\texmf\ tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env, search the line tc:\path\tfm! and replace it by the following23 : tc:\Progra~1\MikTeX~1.7\fonts\tfm! T E X4 HT is now installed and can be used. If you want to employ the O PEN O FFICE . ORG export of T E X4 HT, a Zip packer has to be available in the system. I apply I NFO -Z IP24 for this, but only copy the le zip.exe to a directory already covered by the search path. After rst use of oolatex.bat, if you discover that the generated le is corrupt, you can remedy by editing again the le c:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env and replace the tags <oo-alt> and </oo-alt> by <oo> bzw. </oo> and vice versa, for activating an alternative processing.

3.7 Installation complete

Congratulation! T E X4 HT is now installed and the TEX system can generate all important outputs. A What about an export to Word? In principle there is no reason to export L TEX to Word, A but there are programs that convert L TEX to the Rich Text Format (.rtf), which you can open in Word then. I sense the best way is via HTML or O PEN O FFICE . ORG. This means: A convert L TEX with T E X4 HT to HTML or O PEN O FFICE . ORG, and then open the output in Word resp. O PEN O FFICE . ORG.

4 Usage
The generation of outputs is normally directed by the editor programs, there are buttons and/or keyboard shortcuts for this. For the usage of the E MACS add-ons I refer to their documentation. The access may be bitter, it is really worthwile.

4.1 TeX4ht usage

A T E X4 HT is a exible tool for converting L TEX to HTML, but with the loads of options one easily looses overview at the beginning. With a little practice, nevertheless, you can accomplish everything you imagine. The T E X4 HT documentation delivered is not so luxuriant. A comprehensive list of options, written to the log le, you get by calling

htlatex.bat myfile.tex "info"

A at the command line for a arbitrary L TEX le. Be sure to call htlatex.bat, not just htlatex, as this starts a MikTeX program instead. Because I want XHTML as clear and as small les as possible, I tend to invoke by
23 TeX4ht

24 Info-Zip.

can only process path expressions without whitespace http://www.info-zip.org.

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5 If something fails htlatex.bat myfile.tex "xhtml,2,fn-in,NoFonts,fonts,graphics-,sections+, next"

for the conversion. This generates XHTML, separate les for two levels of sections, no special font information but basic logical formatting, non-scaled graphics and helpful hyperlinks. If you like to have a more precise reproduction of the fonts, skip the option NoFonts, which of course leads to bigger les. For a monolithic le specify a 0 instead of 2.

4.2 Graphics conversion

All graphics included in a document have to originate somewhere. Generally it is strongly dis-advisable to create diagrams or graphics as bitmaps, with Photoshop or similar programs. I ratzer advise to use vector oriented programs, like e. g. CorelDraw, OpenOfce.org Draw, Visio or related. Applications like Excel or PowerPoint or MATLAB also process their graphics vector oriented, and are able to generate nice Postscript les via our Apple printer driver. These Postscript les then get conversed to EPS 25 . The generated le with the extension .eps can be loaded into GS VIEW in order to e. g. control whether the bounding box has to be corrected. The bounding box can be showed by selecting the menu entry Options Show Bounding Box. In case the bounding box does not t, the command File PS to EPS allows to set the bounding box automatically or manually and save the output to a new le. Automatic can be selected if the whole graphic should be used. Manual selection of the bounding box is useful if unwanted head or foot lines should be cropped. Attention: For generating Postscript or DVI graphic les have to be present in (EncapA sulated) Postscript (EPS), whereas with PDF L TEX only graphics in PDF, JPEG oder PNG can be processed. It is well possible to convince the one and the other to accept all le types, but has to use special options which may make the source document unportable to other systems. If both DVI and PDF should be generated, the graphics have to exist in two formats. A If you want to use PDF L TEX to create Portable Document Format from your documents, you have to convert the EPS les to PDF. For this there is the command epstopdf, like the following: epstopdf file1.eps
A Bitmap les like JPEG or PNG can be processed directly by PDF L TEX. For usage with A X they have to be converted to EPS using bmeps. the normal L TE A Graphics generated by M ETA P OST, a graphic description language shipped with L TEX by default.

5 If something fails
If anything does not work or behaves apparently wrong, it is no debacle. Often the reason is a forgotten environment variable. So you rst should check whether all environment variables suggested by this tutorial are set appropriately. If one misses or has a wrong
25 See

also Schlosser, Joachim: EPS Writer fr Windows. http://schlosser.info/epswriter. Only in German, sorry.

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6 Prospect
A value, it is possible that a succeeding installation failed, especially that of P REVIEW-L TEX. So do it again. Another popular source of defect: les in wrong places. Go through the tutorial again and check and correct if necessary. If needed, risk a look to the installation manual of the particular package to nd more hints. Of course it cannot be ruled out that my tutorial contains an error. If you nd everything in the right place and still not working, ask me and include the version number of the tutorial. Maybe I made some assumption that is not general, or a new version of a package works different and this text is outdated.

6 Prospect
A With all the possibilities offered by the numerous L TEX packages always bear in mind: do not loose yourself in gadgets. Choose simple layouts and structure, especially if you plan to publish also in HTML. This tutorial is far away from covering all subtleties of the document environment. With help of this article nevertheless it should be possible for a reasonably Windowsexperienced user to begin relatively quick with editing and typesetting texts. I did discover A L TEX not until 2002 for myself and do not want to miss it anymore. Everyone willgetting involvedbe inspired of the advantages of letting typeset texts in high quality rather that having to be annoyed by the insufciencies of a word processor. If this document helps appeasing the timidity of installing and using such a system and A by that lowers the inhibition threshold of the access to L TEX, it has fullled its purpose.

Literatur und Programme

AUCTeX. http: //www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ AUCTeX Windows package. http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ auctex/auctex-11.85-e22.2-msw.zip Ghostscript. http://ghostscript.com/releases/ GNU Emacs. http: //www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ GNU Emacs for Windows (mirror). http: //www.de-mirrors.de/gnuftp/emacs/ windows/emacs-22.2-bin-i386.zip GSview. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/ ~ghost/gsview/ ImageMagick. http://www.imagemagick.org

ImageMagick Windows Binaries. http://imagemagick.org/script/ binary-releases.php#windows Info-Zip. http://www.info-zip.org Brachet, Pascal: Texmaker. http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ Fairbairns, Robin: TeX Frequently Asked Questions. http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq Gnther, Karsten: LaTeX Ge-packt. mitp Verlag, November 2001 Goosens, Michel/Rahtz, Sebastian: The LaTeX Web Companion. Addison-Wesley, Juli 1999 Gurari, Eitan: TeX4ht. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/ ~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html

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Literatur und Programme Gurari, Eitan: TeX4ht Bug Fixes. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/ ~gurari/TeX4ht/bugfixes.html
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