Install LaTeX For Windows 7 - A Complete Setup

Install LaTeX for Windows 7 a complete setup
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Das LaTeX-Buch
AT X-Buch Das L E
AT X schneller L AT X lernen Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten schreiben mit L E E
AT X is one thing, and very good introductions exist for learning. But what do you need for installing a L AT X system on To use L E E Windows? What do I do with MiKTEX, why do I need Ghostscript, whats TeXmaker, and why many people favor Emacs, and above
all, how does everything fit together? This tutorial shall save the search an show step by step what you need and how to setup the individual components.
I am always happy about suggestions and notes on possible errors. When reporting by mail, please always include the file date: December 24, 2012 Many thanks to a number of readers for suggestions and corrections. The correct addresses for this document are: http://www.latexbuch.de/files/latexsystem-en.pdf for the PDF version and http://www.latexbuch.de/install-latex-windows-7/ for the HTML-page. The German version is available via http://www.latexbuch.de/latex-windows-7-installieren/
Contents
AT X 1 Everyone can set up L E 2 What do you need at all? 3 Installation and Configuration 3.1 Download and install MiKTEX 3.2 Graphics Preparation and Conversion 3.3 Configure Texmaker 3.4 Configure Emacs 3.5 File Types Setup 3.6 Remedy if you have Admin Rights 3.7 Install TeX4ht and ImageMagick 4 And now? Usage 5 If something fails 6 Prospect
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AT X 1 Everyone can set up L E

AT X is not just a program but a language and a methodology of describing documents and gets used via a L AT X system. With that not only scientific L E E papers can be prepared, but also excellent letters, presentation and much more.
For all that have not worked with free software so far it may be strange in the beginning to have to integrate different components to a system on
AT X Postscript and their own, and some will not easily have the heart to do so. For this I present my own environment that I use to generate from L E PDF as well as HTML. AT X, there are some excellent documents available in the net as well as my book[17]. For beginners the best will be the This is not a introduction to L E AT X2, delivered with approximately every L AT X distribution in <texmf>/doc/guides/lshort/, or to be Not so short introduction to L E E
downloaded from CTAN.org1. Essential also is the UK TEX FAQ, to be obtained from the UK TeX Archive[3]. Then we should mention l2tabu, that lists obsolete commands and packages and their alternatives.
AT X, should not write to me personally If you have severe problems with installation although using this tutorial, or have another question related to L E but search in the Internet and the FAQ. In case of continuous confusion you can post in the newsgroup Most questions can be answered there, and also concerning Windows installation this is preferrable, because answers are for everyones benefits and numerous competent users and developers read along.
This guide applies to Windows 7, Vista and XP. It is not a substitute for the original documentations of the particular programs and building blocks . In case of errors or warnings, consult the documentation of the particular program. This tutorial exclusively cares for the mentioned programs. Sections concerning Emacs, as an example, cannot be transferred for XEmacs without special care. More recent versions of programs usually work well (no guarantee).
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2 What do you need at all?

In order to be able to work efficiently, besides the main TEX distribution more components are needed.
AT X Distribution: MiKT X The L AT X distribution is the core of the system. It contains the most important programs needed for generation of DVI, L E E E Postscript and PDF, and all additional packages that offer extended possibilities as e. g. musical typesetting, standard layouts for different organizations, layout specialties, fonts, etc. .
The distribution is only responsible to transform an input to an output. The input itself is created with the editor of your choice. I use MiKTEX. In my opinion this distribution is easy to install, works quite good and is updated regularly.
AT X as simple as possible, I recommend Texmaker as Editor, differing from my personal setup. Editor: Texmaker For keeping the beginning with L E
I will skip instructions for the also popular TeXlipse, the Eclipse plugin. Everyone using Eclipse will manage to get that additional package. For pure mouse oriented users Texmaker is quite comfortable. Texmaker is well updated and convenient to use, because besides graphical menus AT X for most mathematical symbols and all relevant commands it shows so called tool tips during typing of commands. Especially for a newbie in L E
Texmaker is recommendable. Later you can switch to Emacs.
Nevertheless it has to be stressed that Texmaker misses some features that I like in Emacs, e. g. a numerated table of contents view or a powerful handling of labels and cites. The integrated spell-checker does not yet show the quality as Aspell does for Emacs.
AT X under Unix, you might have used Emacs, one of the most Editor: Emacs + RefTeX + AUCTeX + Aspell If you already have worked with L E powerful GNU programs. AT X constructs, speeding I decided to switch to Emacs due to the add-ons AUCTeX and RefTeX. AUCTeX offers keyboard shortcuts for all important L E up work significantly. AUCTeX additionally shows in-editor preview of graphics, tables and formulas. This merges the best from both worlds WYSIWYG and offline editing[11]. On insertion of cross references, RefTeX lets the user select one out of a list of all existing labels, and does help with generation of these labels. Also insertion of bibliographic cites is efficient and fast with RefTeX. Read the introductions or tutorials for Emacs and AUCTeX and get the Emacs reference card. The initial learning effort pays out, it is overcompensated by fast and efficient working.
Moreover you have a spell checker called Aspell in Emacs. It contains dictionaries for English, German and many others. Graphics in Postscript with Ghostscript In the Unix world, Postscript is the exchange format for vector graphics. Following this paradigm, it is best AT X. to include graphics as (Encapsulated) Postscript (PS/EPS) in L E From all Windows applications with their file formats, e. g. existing Word- or PowerPoint drawings, Bitmaps or vector files like Visio, Postscript can be generated even if the application does not support this directly. A Postscript printer driver, redirected to file output, makes this possible. For viewing existing Postscript files and to make small changes you need Ghostscript with its graphical front-end GSview.
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HTML translation: TeX4ht TeX4ht has the advantage that it is contained as package in the MiKTeX distribution. For usage see documentation in <texmf>/doc/html/tex4ht. Though, if you want the absolutely most recent version, you can install manually. TeX4ht, regardless whether packaged or self-installed, needs the program ImageMagick for graphics conversion. Summary and licensing The included package sizes mean the download sizes, not the space needed for installation.
Program MikTeX Setup Ghostscript for Windows (Download) GSview Texmaker GNU Emacs for Windows (Download) AUCTeX Windows Package (Download) GNU Aspell (Win32 version) LibPNG Emacs Config File Emacs TEX Registry File TeX4ht ImageMagick Windows Binaries
Size MB 901000 MB 10 MB 3 MB 6 MB 45 MB 2 MB 8 MB 1 MB
1,5 MB 10 MB ca. 1 103 MB
All of the programs mentioned in this tutorial are at least free of charge, in most cases even free software3. All licenses state that the distribution is allowed. Most of them allow furthermore to change the source code, whereas some of them prohibit commercial sale. You are invited to reward the individual projects financially. Each projects web page tells you how.
3 Installation and Configuration

My system runs on Windows 7. Some access paths to certain configurations may deviate on your system from the described. Access paths denominate entries in the start menu, buttons and menu entries with their particular captions. The step sequence is to be followed tightly due to program dependencies. If you use another directory for a program, please to take care about this in subsequent steps. 3.1 Download and install MiKTEX First of all get the 64-bit Net Installer of MikTeX Setup from the Other Downloads section, which downloads all available pakets at once. Do not select the Basic Installer, because on-the-fly downloading is a nice idea but is likely to break with limited user rights. The installation itself is quite easy: Simply click on continue until the installer finishes, accepting all defaults. As the installer will download roughly 1 Gigabyte, I recommend not using a mobile phone connection for installing. All programs can then be started directly from command line. 3.2 Graphics Preparation and Conversion Configure the Postscript printer driver by Start Devices and Printers Add Printer. First you select local printer and as adapter the FILE port, the right printer driver is the Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600 (up to Windows Vista), resp. MS Publisher Color Printer (from Windows 7 on, Generic in the vendor list). The printer name is best set to Postscript File. After installation do the following settings under Start Devices and Printers Postscript File Printer Printing Preferences Advanced Document Options Postscript Options: Set Postscript-Output to Optimize Portability and TrueType Download to Contour. The ICM Color Matching should be deactivated for avoidance of color adulterations.
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From now on every Windows application can produce Postscript files by using the new printer. The generated filewhich should be given the file extension .ps instead of the default .prncan be viewed in GSview and converted to EPS. For automatic further processing it is best to install Ghostscript for Windows (Download). For installation, there is nothing special to bear in mind (simply Enter until finished). Because of the possible wish to view Postscript file for checkup, get and install GSview 4.9 Win32 (Download), the graphical front end of Ghostscript. During the installation, do set the directory to C:\Programme(x86)\Ghostscript, too, and also as program group specify the same as suggested during the installation of Ghostscript. It exceedingly useful to add Ghostscript to the search path. So again, in Start Control Panel System and Security System Advanced Environment Variables add to the variable PATH the respective directory, e. g. C:\Programme(x86)\Ghostscript\gs9.06\bin, separated by a colon. Attention: No spaces before or after entries of the PATH variable! In order to simplify work in the long run I recommend to setup an EPS Printer, for this I have a short tutorial, too: [16], only in German, sorry, but Google Translate will do a fair job. 3.3 Configure Texmaker Texmaker is installed quite rapidly: Like with MiKTEX simply accept all installer defaults. 3.4 Configure Emacs One defect of Windows has to be fixed first: the absence of the environment variable HOME. Environment variables allow to set paths or generally strings independent of particular applications, and use them with all applications. For this create a new entry in Start Settings Control Panel System Advanced Environment Variables4, named HOME and assign some path in which you like to have saved all individual settings. The directory name should not contain spaces. Then create exactly that folder. For all environment variables it is to be reckoned that if you want to set an environment variable just for the current user, you create it in User Variables. If they should apply to all users, create them in System Variables. You need GNU Emacs for Windows (Download), and AUCTeX Windows Package (Download) as precompiled package. Unpack the Emacs archive emacs-2x.x-bin-i386.zip into the programs directory, resulting in a directory like e. g. C:\Programme\emacs. In exactly this directory then unzip the archive auctex-11.xx-e2x.x-msw.zip, overwriting at least one file. Most unzippers ask before doing that. For easier starting Emacs, in directory C:\Programme\emacs\bin run the installer addpm.exe and accept the settings. This creates a shortcut in the Windows start menu. With this, Emacs is ready to run. To have easier access to the following configurations, you may download my Emacs configuration file. Rename this file to .emacs and move it to your HOME directory.
Listing 1: Contents of the file . emacs (server-start) (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t) (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
AUCTEX + RefTEX The integration of AUCTeX with RefTeX has to be activated separatedly. For this, start Emacs and use it to create the configuration file .emacs within you HOME directory (UNIX shortcut name ~) with C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET (The shortcut C-x stands for the keyboard combination
Ctrl-x, other keys equivalent. So translates to: Ctrl-x, Ctrl-f, type ~/.emacs, press Enter. The ~/ means the file to be located within your HOME directory.). Here you add the following lines:
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t) Ensure that you use the straight apostrophe in the expression, not some accent or typographic single quote. Then save the file by C-x C-s, close Emcas with C-x C-c, and the setup is completed. The installation was successful, if when opening a .tex file in the menu bar new entries Preview, LaTeX and Ref appear. If you want faster and smaller preview images, you have to get the additional graphics library LibPNG from LibPNG. From the Website, download libpng and zlib. From the Binary archive extract the two DLLs libpng14-14.dll and copy them to your directory C:\Programme(x86) \emacs\bin. Do the same with the dependencies archives content bin\zlib1.dll, and place it in the bin directory of Emacs as well.
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AT X with C-c C-p C-d. In PDF-Mode with (C-c C-t C-p) you now can call Preview-L E
Aspell Aspell servers as spell checker. After downloading the program (Full Installer) and the dictionairy (aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe) from GNU Aspell (Win32 version), first run the program installer, accepting all defaults, then your dictionairy installer. So once again, in Start Control Panel System and Security System Advanced Environment Variables add to the variable PATH the respective directory, e. g. C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Aspell\bin\; separated by a colon. Finally you let Emacs know to use Aspell for spell checking in future by adding the following line to your .emacs configuration file: (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") 3.5 File Types Setup Only as a further simplification you create a new file type. First, add to your configuration file .emacs as first line: (server-start) Then download my Emacs-TEX registry file and edit itso do not simply double click but right click and select edit. In line 6, containing the first @=, replace both occurrences of the directory name C:\\Programme(x86)\\emacs with the name of the directory you installed Emacs in. Take care that you really use two backslashes \\ path separators. Save the file and use the double click to add it to the registry. Confirm that you want it when Windows asks for.
Listing 2: Contents of the file texfile. reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\texfile] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\texfile\Shell]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\texfile\Shell\Open] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\texfile\Shell\Open\Command] @="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\emacs-23.3\\bin\\emacsclientw.exe -n -a \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\emacs-23.3\\bin\\runemacs [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.tex] @="texfile" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.bib] @="texfile" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.lco] @="texfile" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.sty] @="texfile" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.cls] @="texfile"
You can do the same for further file name extensions like .bib, .sty, .cls and .lco. From then on double clicking a .tex file leads to execution of Emacs. Now Emacs is completely configured. Now you have full system for generation of printer and camera ready documents in PDF or Postscript. If you do not want to generate HTML, you are done at this point. 3.6 Remedy if you have Admin Rights Now start Emacs via the start menu. If your Windows user account has admin rights, you may get an error message about a rights problem of folder .emacs.d/server/. error: The directory ~/.emacs.d/server' is unsafe Fix it by changing the owner: Close Emacs. Click on Start and enter cmd into the search field. This opens a command window. Change into the
Emacs"=folder below HOME by typing
cd %HOME%\.emacs.d There you enter the following command: takeown /f server You only need to execute the command if you have administrative rights, and only then you are able to execute it.
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3.7 Install TeX4ht and ImageMagick

TeX4ht is included in MiKTeX and, if you selected the total installation, already on your hard disk for usage.
The precondition for TeX4ht on the one hand is Ghostscript that you installed in a previous section, and on the other hand ImageMagick, which gets configured as follows: Get the ImageMagick Windows Binaries from the ImageMagick web site and install it. Simply acknowledge the defaults, which automatically adds the converter program to your search path. If you want to employ the LibreOffice export of TeX4ht, a Zip packer has to be available in the system. I apply Info-Zip for this, but only copy the file zip.exe to a directory already covered by the search path. After first use of oolatex.bat, if you discover that the generated file is corrupt, you can remedy by editing again the file C:\Programme(x86)\MiKTeX2.9\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env and replace the tags
<oo-alt> and </oo-alt> by <oo> bzw. </oo> and vice versa, for activating an alternative processing.
4 And now? Usage

Congratulation! TeX4ht is now installed and the TEX system can generate all important outputs.
AT X to Word, but there are programs that convert L AT X to the Rich Text What about exporting to Word? In principle there is no reason to export L E E AT X with TeX4ht to HTML or Format (.rtf), which you can open in Word then. I sense the best way is via HTML or LibreOffice. This means: convert L E
LibreOffice, and then open the output in Word resp. LibreOffice.
The generation of outputs is normally directed by the editor programs, there are buttons and/or keyboard shortcuts for this. For the usage of the Emacs add-ons I refer to their documentation. The access may be bitter, it is really worthwile.
AT X to HTML, but with the loads of options one easily looses overview at the beginning. With a TeX4ht usage TeX4ht is a flexible tool for converting L E little practice, nevertheless, you can accomplish everything you imagine.
The TeX4ht documentation delivered is not so luxuriant. A comprehensive list of options, written to the log file, you get by calling htlatex.bat myfile.tex "info"
AT X file. Be sure to call htlatex.bat, not just htlatex, as this starts a MiKTeX program instead. at the command line for a arbitrary L E
Because I want XHTML as clear and as small files as possible, I tend to invoke by htlatex.bat myfile.tex "xhtml,2,fn-in,NoFonts,fonts,graphics-,sections+,next" for the conversion. This generates XHTML, separate files for two levels of sections, no special font information but basic logical formatting, non-scaled graphics and helpful hyperlinks. If you like to have a more precise reproduction of the fonts, skip the option NoFonts, which of course leads to bigger files. For a monolithic file specify a 0 instead of 2. Graphics conversion For drawing, use vector oriented programs, like e. g. CorelDraw, LibreOffice Draw, Visio or related. Generally it is strongly dis-advisable to create diagrams or graphics as bitmaps, with Photoshop, GIMP or similar programs. Applications like Excel or PowerPoint also process their graphics vector oriented, and are able to generate nice Postscript files via our Postscript printer driver. These Postscript files then get conversed to EPS [16]. MATLAB directly can produce PS/EPS. The generated file with the extension .eps can be loaded into GSview in order to e. g. control whether the bounding box has to be corrected. The bounding box can be showed by selecting the menu entry Options Show Bounding Box. In case the bounding box does not fit, the command File PS to EPS allows to set the bounding box automatically or manually and save the output to a new file. Automatic can be selected if the whole graphic should be used. Manual selection of the bounding box is useful if unwanted head or foot lines should be cropped.
AT X only Attention: For generating Postscript or DVI graphic files have to be present in (Encapsulated) Postscript (EPS), whereas with pdfL E graphics in PDF, JPEG oder PNG can be processed. It is well possible to convince the one and the other to accept all file types, but has to use special options which may make the source document unportable to other systems. If both DVI and PDF should be generated, the graphics have to exist in two formats.
AT X to create Portable Document Format from your documents, you have to convert the EPS files to PDF. For this there is If you want to use pdfL E the command epstopdf, like the following:
epstopdf file1.eps
AT X they have to be converted to EPS using AT X. For usage with the normal L Bitmap files like JPEG or PNG can be processed directly by pdfL E E bmeps.
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5 If something fails
If anything does not work or behaves apparently wrong, often the reason is a forgotten environment variable. So you first should check whether all environment variables suggested by this tutorial are set appropriately. If one misses or has a wrong value, it is possible that a succeeding installation
AT X. So do it again. Another popular source of defect are files in wrong places. Go through the tutorial again and failed, especially that of Preview-L E check and correct if necessary.
If needed, risk a look to the installation manual of the particular package to find more hints. Of course it cannot be ruled out that my tutorial contains an error. If you find everything in the right place and still not working, ask me and include the version number of the tutorial. Maybe I made some assumption that is not general, or a new version of a package works different.
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AT X packages always bear in mind: Choose simple layouts and structure, especially if you plan to With all the possibilities offered by the numerous L E publish also in HTML. With help of this article nevertheless it should be possible for a reasonably Windows-experienced user to begin relatively quick
with editing and typesetting texts. If this document helps appeasing the timidity of installing and using such a system and by that lowers the inhibition threshold of the access to AT X, it has fulfilled its purpose. L E
References
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] AUCTeX Windows Package (Download). URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/auctex-11.86-e23.3-msw.zip. Pascal Brachet. Texmaker. URL: http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/. Robin Fairbairns. TeX Frequently Asked Questions. URL: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq. Ghostscript for Windows (Download). URL: http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/gs905w32.exe. GNU Emacs for Windows (Download). URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip. GSview. URL: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/. GSview 4.9 Win32 (Download). URL: http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv49w32.exe. Eitan Gurari. TeX4ht. URL: http://tug.org/tex4ht/. ImageMagick Windows Binaries. URL: http://imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows.
[10] Info-Zip. URL: http://www.info-zip.org. [11] David Kastrup. Revisiting WYSIWYG paradigms for authoring LaTeX. In: TUGboat 23.1 (Nov. 2002), pp. 5764. [12] LibPNG. URL: http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php. [13] Thorsten Maerz. GNU Aspell (Win32 version). URL: http://aspell.net/win32/. [14] Frank Neukam, Markus Kohm, and Axel Kielhorn. Das KOMA-Script Paket. package documentation. Sept. 2002. [15] Christian Schenk. MikTeX Setup. URL: http://www.miktex.org/2.9/setup. [16] Joachim Schlosser. EPS Writer fr Windows. URL: http://schlosser.info/epswriter. [17] Joachim Schlosser. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten schreiben mit LaTeX. 4th ed. mitp Verlag, May 26, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-8266-9102-7. URL: http://www.latexbuch.de.
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CTAN is the abbreviation for Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, the complete collection of TEX related software. See my post in de.comp.text.tex (in German)
3 Which as is generally known is a difference to free of charge: Free as free speech, not free beer. See the pages of the Free Software Foundation at http://www.fsf.org.
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generic cialis sagte am 24. April 2011 um 05:28 :
Thanks for having written this. Thats the most interesting entry I have found on this topic.
Etn sagte am 24. April 2011 um 21:33 :
Thanks for this document, it has been very helpful. I have been working on a mac and recently I decided to set up emacs (LaTeX, AUCTex, RefTeX) on windows 7. I would be very grateful if you could please answer one quick question. relating to the ref menu. I have followed your instructions (see below). When I open a .Tex file, I can see the preview and latex menus, however ref menu does not appear. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I have also tried several codes found online. Many thanks Etn (The environment variable was checked) I added the following code to my .emacs file: >>(add-hook LaTeX-mode-hook turn-on-reftex) >>(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t) >>Then save the file by C-x C-s, close Emcas with C-x C-c, and the setup is completed. The >>installation was successful, if when opening a .tex file in the menu bar new entries Preview, >>LaTeX and Ref appear.
Joachim sagte am 24. April 2011 um 21:49 :
Its not your fault. Please ensure that when entering the 1st line with add-hook, you set a straight apostrophe at the two places, not an accent or typographic single quotes. This is wrong: (add-hook LaTeX-mode-hook turn-on-reftex) This is correct: (add-hook LaTeX-mode-hook turn-on-reftex)
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Thanks for commenting, I will check in my document
Etn sagte am 25. April 2011 um 02:04 :
Thanks for your reply, however, unfortunately (after changing the apostrophes as above) the ref menu still does not appear. Etn
Please email me your full .emacs file as email attachment, and the output of the EMACS command M-x version. My email address is joachim at schlosser dot info. Thanks.
Joachim sagte am 12. Mai 2011 um 16:52 :
Try removing all RefTeX-related configuration items from your .emacs file. Other commands might interfere with the mere 2 required in the tutorial.
Aaron sagte am 21. Februar 2012 um 20:11 :
Thansk Joachim for putting this together, I appreciate it greatly! I would be very greatfulif you could help me with the same issue as Etn regarding the ref menu not appearing although the preview and latex menus do appear. Im using your .emacs file (with no change)that you kindly shared and put it in a directory I set up for the HOME system variable. Would you have any insights as to what the problem maybe? Many thanks in advance! Aaron
Joachim sagte am 22. Februar 2012 um 07:35 :
Hey Aaron, let me get back to you via email and post the result here in the comments once we solved it.
Minda Hilger sagte am 25. April 2011 um 03:11 :
I enjoyed reading this blog post! Keep up the great work.
Lalit Kapoor sagte am 19. Juni 2011 um 14:00 :
Many thanks for this piece of wisdom. I was using MikTeX and TeXnicCenter for preparing LaTeX documents. I came know about Emacs and AUCTeX five days back. But after five days (and night) struggle I could not get the preview-latex results in my Emacs windows. I read every manual mutliple times. Even on net (Google) I made many searches but end up to get the same information again and again which could not help. Every thing was ok with my system. But few minutes earlier I read one specific line about ghostscript that it should be of version 8.71 not later. I simply uninstall ghostscript 9.02, download and install ghostscript 8.71 and lo . . . it works on very first run. I got the preview of my LaTeX document. I want to add only one thing that there is only one image support dll (i.e. libXpm.dll) included in the precompiled emacs 23.3 which you have mentioned also. For image support (like png in preview-latex) you have to download libpng.dll which should be of version 1.2 or later and copy it in the bin directory of emacs. I got libpng14_14.dll from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html. Thanks again.
Joachim sagte am 19. Juni 2011 um 20:37 :
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Thanks, Lalit. Currently I am updating the guide, and the section on libpng, which I took out some months ago, will come back in. So thanks again for reminding me!
did so.
The new version has arrived. Problems with setting up file types for Emacs in Windows 7 without admin rights should be past, since I threw out ftype and assoc and replaced it by entries to the registry. Another plus: the guide has become smaller again. Please let me know if something remains unclear. Thanks!
Pavel sagte am 19. Juli 2011 um 06:41 :
Hi there Joachim: Thank you very much for the detailed guideline! I am starting with LaTex and you made my life easier while getting everything set for it. I just want to let you know that something went wrong in your directions for installing LibPNG, you forgot to write the last part of the paragraph including name of the two binary files (libpng3.dll, libpng12.dll) and the path for extracting them (C:\Programme(x86)\emacs\bin), which are available in you German guideline. Best regards,
Joachim sagte am 19. Juli 2011 um 08:00 :
Oh, thanks, so I got to update the English version. Thank you!
Thanks again, Pavel, all set.
Tamal sagte am 7. September 2011 um 20:17 :
Only giving thanks will be nothing. Any how thank you a billion this is great.
Joachim sagte am 7. September 2011 um 20:36 :
Thank you!
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Chris Grafikkarte sagte am 28. Oktober 2011 um 14:36 :
Finally a Installationsguide for Latex that worked. Thank you so much!
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Joachim sagte am 28. Oktober 2011 um 14:59 :
Thanks, nice to hear!
Daniel sagte am 24. Dezember 2011 um 12:44 :
Wow, danke fr diese ausfhrliche Beschreibung Joachim! Genau danach habe ich berall gesucht! Frohe Festtage
Joachim sagte am 24. Dezember 2011 um 21:43 :
Danke! Ebenfalls frohe Weihnacht, Daniel!
Jin sagte am 16. Januar 2012 um 15:24 :
Thanks! First entry in google search! Very practical and useful. You might want to mention that C-x in Emacs means Ctrl+x etc..
Joachim sagte am 16. Januar 2012 um 17:51 :
Thanks, Jin! The meaning Ctrl-X for C-X is mentioned in the footnote, but you are right, maybe it would be better to inline all the footnotes in the text.
Sif sagte am 7. April 2012 um 00:59 :
Thanks, This pages have made my day

Great, that was the intention!
Wayne sagte am 9. April 2012 um 13:59 :
I am very interested to give auctex a try. Since I have been using Texstudio, Winedt for a while, I am so confused to customize emacs+auctex. I hope you can help me out: I use latex+dvi+ps+pdf+pdfviewer routine in Texstudio and Winedt. But it seems quite difficult to set such a routine in emacs+auctex. I saw some tips to configure latex+dvi+ps+pdf. But after the pdf file is generated by ps2pdf, I can not find a simple way to open the pdf file. The only way I know is to switch to PDF mode and use VIEW to open the pdf file. It is not very convenient, because I can bundle all the commands to a key in texstudio. Do you have any idea how to define or add a function to open a pdf file under latex mode without switching to PDF mode? Thanks, Wayne
Joachim
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sagte am 9. April 2012 um 19:13 :
Yes, you can do this, but I would not advise to immediately start fiddling around with macro definitions in TeX. So far I never faced the necessity to implement new macros in AucTeX, as I use a simple trick to get around the close-compile-reopen cycle: for instant preview in PDF mode, I use GSview to display the PDF files. GSview does not lock the files, and so I can compile and immediately get the result in the existing window without reopening. And, even more imporant: without any hacks. Try it! So why do you need the latex+dvi+ps+pdf thing in the editor? Why does Postscript not suffice for Preview? Simply use GSview as previewer, it will save you the ps2pdf step while you are working on the document. I would only then convert to PDF when its finished.
I have just tried your tricks. It works well! And the sumatra PDF unlocks pdf file as well. As I said, I am used to latex+dvi+ps+pdf+pdfviewer routine in texstudio, so I think emacs+auctex can also do that and its said that emacs+auctex is highly customizable. If that is possible, I would like to know. But as you suggested, ps is already enough for preview. I think I have to get used to it. BTW, I have another question about the preview fuction. As I use psfrag to add some math on the .eps figures, the auctex preview cannot display the modified figures correctly. Is there any trick to avoid this?
Yes, psfrag: since it uses an extra script to replace the strings (at least it did when I last used it some years ago), this behavior is not implemented in the standard preview-latex functionality. If this is a show-stopper for you, you might want to contact the authors via their mailing list and ask about.
Ihave another question now. Do you know where I can find other useful extensions for auctex, like auto completion and others?
Wayne, I highly advise to read the AucTeX intro. AucTeX comes with all sorts of keyboard shortcuts that are to make your writing faster and are inline with Emacs philosophy of editing. There might be experimental branches of Emacs/AucTeX for command completion, but so far I have not seen it.
I am still trying to add a pdfviewer command which looks like (add-to-list TeX-command-list (list pdfviewer sumatraPDF %s.pdf TeX-run-command nil t)) Emacs can fine sumatraPDF. But it looks that the option %s.pdf is wrong. With that, Emacs tries the command sumatraPDF filename.pdf instead of sumatraPDF filename.pdf. With this extra , sumatraPDF cannot find the right file name. I also tried %o, but in Latex-Mode, %o means filename.dvi by default. Maybe you know something that can help me out here. There should be an option that represents filename.pdf. But I have no idea what it is and how to find it. Thanks, Wayne
Have you checked the documentation or Stack Exchange?
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Thank you for your hints. But those links are not useful. Emacs+Auctex is very powerful, but at this stage, its very difficult for me to customize it.
Yes, you are right, its difficult in the beginning. And yes, the power of Emacs+AucTeX comes with exactly that price of difficulty.
Hi Joachim, I came across another little issue that I cannot find some math symbols in the latex-math mode. Auctex provides a long list of math symbols, but still some symbols are not there. As you know, Winedt as well as Texstudio has a rich math menu. One can probably find the most symbols in those sub-menus. How do you find and input extra math symbols in auctex?
Wayne, you got to enter math mode by the keyboard shortcut C-c ~. For general refefence, I would like to refer you to the AucTeX manual.
chiara sagte am 24. Juli 2012 um 13:45 :
Hello! thanks for the tutorial!I have a problemI cannot preview a document in pdf. When I try to do it, it says pdflatex is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file. Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Tue Jul 24 13:39:11 LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images I have tried to install everything twice but it didnt change. Can it have something to do with GSview/Ghostscript or with the EPS printer? Because there I had some problems As per the first, I run the installation of GSView after Ghostscript but I could not find the place where to put the program group (and I have no idea where I can find the program group of Ghostscript) As per the second, as instructions are in German I have not done it yet. Thanks in advance for the help!!
Hey Chiara, did you check whether you can call pdflatex from the command line (Windows Start->Run->cmd)? If not, then something with your LaTeX distribution is wrong.
chiara sagte am 25. Juli 2012 um 11:13 :
Hello, Thanks. I went to cmd and wrote pdflatex and it says that: pdflatex is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file. I dowloaded and installed the complete version of MikTex 2.9. Shall I install it again? Or do I need to modify something? Or to install the 2.8 version maybe? And if I do so, shall I uninstall all the other packages in order to install all in the right sequence? Thanks in advance! chiara
Joachim
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sagte am 30. Juli 2012 um 15:32 :
It seems that the installer did not add the executables to the search path of your Windows system. Just run the installer again and watch out for something like add to path.
chiara sagte am 2. August 2012 um 13:08 :
Hello! Thanks for the suggestion. I re-installed everything again starting with MikTeX and there are some progressespecially, it seems it recognizes pdflatex now. However, I still cannot manage to create a pdf. At first, I thought I didnt insert the right formatting; so, I dowloaded a template; as it was still not working, I dowloaded the template package for AuCTeX. So, I open the document, activate pdf mode and then ask to see the preview. It says to press control-c control-l to see compilation results and below you have what appears. Can you help me, please? THanks a lot!!! chiara Running `Preview-LaTeX on `TEMPLATE.tex.tpl with pdflatex \nonstopmode\nofiles \PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined \RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi} \input TEMPLATE.tex.tpl.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9) entering extended mode LaTeX2e Babel [...] loaded. No auxiliary output files. ! I cant find file `TEMPLATE.tex.tpl.tex. 2004/11/05]\fi} \input TEMPLATE.tex.tpl.tex Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. 2004/11/05]\fi} \input TEMPLATE.tex.tpl.tex ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Transcript written on texput.log. Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Thu Aug 02 13:05:02 LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images
Joachim sagte am 3. August 2012 um 20:34 :
Chiara, what are you trying to achieve? And how does the document look like? a) You want to compile a document. b) You want to get a preview within Emacs. c) You have formulas, graphics or symbols in your document. What is the template package for AuCTeX? Never heard of this before.
Hello Joachim, I am so sorry I am asking you so many questions.. what Id like to do with emacs is writing my PhD thesis (with graphs, formulas and references). This is the first time I ever use LaTeX, so what I was trying to see was what a .tex doc looks like in pdf (and how to transform it). I used a template article(template in the sense that it has already commands like begin/ end document and the various sections)and I wanted to check that I installed everything properly. So I just opened a .tex document and tried to preview it in pdf: first I switched in pdf mode and then asked to preview (C-c C-t C-p, then C-c C-p C-d.). Emacs then asks me to type C-c C-l for results. And then it appears what I copied above. Maybe, I am just doing the wrong thing and everything is installed correcltybut I dont know The template package is Emacs-Template Thanks a lot for your patience and help!!! chiara
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No problem. Now I understand what you are trying to achieve: You dont want to create a preview as done with C-c C-p C-d, what you want is simply to compile the document. This can be done with C-c C-c, after that, your output PDF will be available for viewing again C-c C-c.
It workkksssssssss!!!!Thaaaaanks!!!!!! With C-c C-c twice it told me that it was an undefined command, but I modified a bit my .emacs (with things that I am not totally understanding yet, but hopefully I will in the future! Thanks again for this wonderful and very useful blog!!!! chiara ) and I set .pdf as a default with a .tex
Roy Genis sagte am 14. August 2012 um 01:56 :
Ich habe jetzt etwa ein Dutzend Latex-Programme unter Windows 7 installiert. Kein einziges funktioniert. Und dieses hier lt sich noch nicht mal installieren. Windows 7 ist der letzte Mist. Was unter Windows XP noch ohne Probleme funktioniert, funktioniert unter Windows 7 gar nicht mahr. Es lt sich berhaupt kein PDF-File mehr generieren. Unter Windows 7 geht gar nichts mehr.
Welches ist denn dieses hier?
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Eugen sagte am 20. Januar 2013 um 19:05 :
Great tutorial! I was able to configure the Emacs+Auctex system thanks to you ! I wonder how did you figure out so many steps in this installation!
Joachim Schlosser sagte am 20. Januar 2013 um 19:55 :
Thank you!
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