How to use MikTeX on Windows workstations:
To create or edit TeX documents on Windows systems the following prerequisites
are needed:
- Text editor
- MiKTex as typesetting system
- opt. additional viewers for Postscript and PDF
For text editing many programs are available. Very common in use with TeX is
WinEdt. But this program is shareware
and costs money for licensing.
A good alternative at no cost is the text
editor PsPad.
It has similar properties (syntax highlighting, integration of external compiler
and viewer, but using it with MiKTex requires some manual settings.
The easiest way is to use the
TeXnicCenter
as freeware editor. This program was made for use with MiKTeX and creates most settings
on first start automatically.
There are two ways to use MiKTeX on computers in the institute:
- Using the preinstalled Version from the windows server (recommended)
- Local installation on your workplace computer (requires 150 - 1000 MB
drive space depending on configuration)
As all installation files for MikTeX are available on the physics server
UKSP-S0 local installations always should use this repository. This is
in order to reduce network traffic to servers outside the university.
Distributed version: 2.7.3224 - 2009
- Using the pre installed version of MiKTeX (german)
- Installation of MiKTeX on your workplace (german)
- Installation of the TeXnicCenter Desktop Environment (german)
- Installation of Editor PsPad to use with the pre installed MiKTeX (german)