MiKTeX 1.20e Tips Copyright © 1996--1999 Christian Schenk
Tips for MiKTeX users.
This manual lists MiKTeX related tips. Please visit the MiKTeX
Project page at <http://www.miktex.de
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this document.
Please feel free to contribute more tips by sending an email to tip@miktex.de.
You can use option --job-name
to set the name of the DVI file
The command
latex --job-name=dog cat.tex
will create the DVI file dog.dvi
instead of cat.dvi
.
Use TeX's --src
option to enrich the DVI file with source file information.
The command
latex --src mydoc.tex
will enrich the DVI file mydoc.dvi
with source file information,
i.e. mydoc.dvi
will contain references to mydoc.tex
.
Use the option -Ppdf
to produce PostScript optimized for
distilling to PDF.
The command
dvips -Ppdf mydoc.dvi
causes Dvips to
Requires MiKTeX 1.20c.
You can type the page number followed by g to jump to a certain page. For example, typing the key sequence 220g will direct Yap to page 220.
You can use Yap to locate and view a DVI file that is installed in the
the Documentation Folder (usually c:\texmf\doc
). For example, the
command
yap yap
will open the DVI file c:\texmf\doc\miktex\yap.dvi
.