Part I. User Guide
Part I. User Guide
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
About this Manual
About
MiKTeX
How to Get
MiKTeX
Downloading
MiKTeX
MiKTeX
on
CD-R
/
DVD-R
Give Back
The
MiKTeX
Project Page
The
MiKTeX
Mailing List
Documentation
2. Installing
MiKTeX
Installation Instructions
Prerequisites
Choosing an installation size
Shared vs. private installation
Installing a basic
MiKTeX
system
Installing a complete
MiKTeX
system
Items in the Start Menu
Removing
MiKTeX
3. Using
MiKTeX
Getting Started
Specialities
Automatic Package Installation
Finding out Package Usages
Suppressing Screen Output
Setting the Name of the Output File
Auto-insertion of Source Specials
Quoted File Names
Specifying Additional Input Directories
Specifying the Output Directory
Specifying the Directory for Auxiliary Files
Running Programs From Within
TeX
TCX
Files: Character Translations
texify
: The
MiKTeX
Compiler Driver
Printing
Using a Viewer to Print
DVI
/
PDF
Files
Using
mtprint
to Print
DVI
Files
4. Maintenance
Refreshing the File Name Database
Setting the Preferred Paper Format
Selecting Hyphenation Tables
Installing Updates
Automatic Package Installation
Integrating Local Additions
A Short Excursion: The
TeX
Directory Structure (
TDS
)
Walkthrough: Registering a User-Managed
TEXMF
Directory
5. Advanced Topics
Managing Font Map Files
Working With the Package Manager
Installing Packages
Searching Packages
Managing Memory Dump Files
Changing
TEXMF
run-time parameters