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A..1 MiKTeX
- Go to
Cvsnap1\SW\texutils\MiKTeX2 and click on setupwiz.exe to start
the MiKTeX Setup Wizard.
- Click on Next.
- Tell MiKTeX to install into
D:\texutils , not
into its default of D:\Program Files\MiKTeX . This step is
crucial if you will install LATEX2HTML later, as the LATEX2HTML
installer does not handle the embedded space in the Program Files
name properly).
- When prompted, tell
the Setup Wizard to install MiKTeX shared (on a multi-user system)
to install all components (the default), to create a local TEXMF tree
on
D:\localtexmf , and not to incorporate existing trees (unless you are
updating an earlier version of MiKTeX).
- Click on Next to install the MikTeX components.
- At the end of MiKTeX component installation, you should see the message
All components have been copied to the installation
directory and the location of an installation report log.
- Tell MiKTeX to add its binary directory to the
path, and click on Next.
- Go to Start|Programs|MikTeX2|DVI Viewer and register
YAP as your default .dvi viewer.
At this point, you should have a fully functional TEX, LATEX,
pdftex, and pdflatex environment in which
- Double clicking
on any .dvi file in a MS Explorer window triggers the Yap
previewer.
- MiKTeX and all of its utilities
have been installed into subfolders of
D:\texutils .
- Your
path variable has had
D:\texutils\miktex\bin; prepended to it,
so that tex, latex, dvips, pdftex and pdflatex commands
are available while working in any document folder.
- A program group called MiKTeX2 has been created, with
entries for Help, for DVI Viewer and for MikTeX Options.
I suggest that you test this installation by compiling and
previewing a test .tex source before you install further packages in
this suite.
If your path variable has been set correctly, you should be able to open
a Command Prompt window and change directory to any folder that contains
a mydoc.tex source file, then type tex mydoc,
latex mydoc, pdflatex mydoc, etc. to produce
.dvi or .pdf output from the .tex source.
If your installation can not locate the TEX or LATEX executables
in such a test, then your path variable has not been changed appropriately,
and later steps in the installation of LATEX2HTML will fail. The
path variable can be changed manually at
Settings|Control Panel|System|Environment
pdflatex is installed with the output compression level defaulted
to 9, i.e., maximum possible compression. (This can be adjusted
if necessary by editing D:\texutils\pdftex\config\pdftex.cfg or
by inserting \pdfcompresslevel=N , with N set to 0
through 9, in the preamble to the document.)
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