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2.1 MiKTeX

The open-source and widely-used MiKTeX package is available over the net as a free download. A CD-ROM version is scheduled for release in June 2001. MiKTeX 2.0, released in January 2001 and archived in Charlottesville at Cvsnap1\SW\texutils\MiKTeX2, includes:

  • TEX and LATEX2$e$,
  • pdfTeX and pdflatex for directly producing .pdf output,
  • dvips and dvipdfm for converting .dvi to Postscript and .pdf,
  • Yap, a .dvi previewer that can display included Postscript images,
  • many commonly used utilities, e.g. BibTeX, MakeIndex, TeXinfo, etc.,
  • a complete set of public-domain Type-1 (PostScript) fonts for the Computer Modern, LATEX and AMS math families,
  • a Windows interface to help you configure the package,
  • optional enhanced TEX features and a TEX-oriented editor,
  • texify, a TEX compiler driver that will run LATEX, pdflatex, MakeIndex and BibTeX as many times as are needed to produce a .dvi or .pdf file with sorted indices and all of the cross-references resolved.



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