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January 24th, 2011, 05:34 PM | #1 |
Newbie Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 | a latex system that will work on win7
Hi! I'm tearing my hair out trying to get a system that will work. I need the complete system. Latex itself, an WUSIWYG editor and a viewer, I guess. I tried downloading the Protex system, but when I click on the install file I get an interactive PDF file with links that just give me errors. I tried to download Miktex directly and all I get is a spam site that wants to clean my registry. Sourceforge doesn't have a download link. It does but it just takes you to a page that says the project files are empty. Can anyone take me by the hand and help me get a working system up and running on Win7? Thanks, Paul |
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January 24th, 2011, 06:56 PM | #2 |
Senior Member Joined: Jul 2010 From: St. Augustine, FL., U.S.A.'s oldest city Posts: 12,211 Thanks: 520 Math Focus: Calculus/ODEs | Re: a latex system that will work on win7 |
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January 24th, 2011, 07:48 PM | #3 |
Newbie Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 | Re: a latex system that will work on win7
Well I just tried that one, Mark but it just created a gif file. Is that all any Latex system does? ![]() |
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January 24th, 2011, 07:50 PM | #4 |
Global Moderator Joined: Oct 2008 From: London, Ontario, Canada - The Forest City Posts: 7,912 Thanks: 1110 Math Focus: Elementary mathematics and beyond | Re: a latex system that will work on win7 |
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January 24th, 2011, 08:00 PM | #5 | |
Senior Member Joined: Jul 2010 From: St. Augustine, FL., U.S.A.'s oldest city Posts: 12,211 Thanks: 520 Math Focus: Calculus/ODEs | Re: a latex system that will work on win7 Quote:
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January 24th, 2011, 08:12 PM | #6 |
Newbie Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 | Re: a latex system that will work on win7
I've got Miktex working(I think) it gives me something called a yap viewer which takes dvi files and Texworks which take tex files.. It seems that Texworks will open a tex file and convert it to pdf but it won't let you save it. Is this what you mean? Protext is the one that just opens up a PDF file with a lot of links to install various packages but they each give me an error. Thank, Paul |
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January 24th, 2011, 08:19 PM | #7 | ||
Global Moderator Joined: Oct 2008 From: London, Ontario, Canada - The Forest City Posts: 7,912 Thanks: 1110 Math Focus: Elementary mathematics and beyond | Re: a latex system that will work on win7 Quote:
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January 25th, 2011, 01:44 AM | #8 |
Senior Member Joined: May 2008 From: York, UK Posts: 1,300 Thanks: 0 | Re: a latex system that will work on win7
If you download the latest version of MikTeX (which you seem to have done successfully), it will as you say come with TeXWorks, which will take LaTeX source code and compile it for you into a .pdf file. It definitely can save the source code files - many of these editors save the file automatically when compiling, which may make it appear that you can't save if you've just compiled it. I actually use TeXnicCenter, which is free and uses the Yap previewer you get with MikTeX. |
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January 25th, 2011, 11:04 PM | #9 | |
Newbie Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 | Re: a latex system that will work on win7 Quote:
Many thanks, Paul | |
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January 25th, 2011, 11:45 PM | #10 |
Newbie Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 | Re: a latex system that will work on win7
Well, well, well. I downloaded and installed TexnicCenter and tried it a few examples I downloaded from the net. It compiles the code alright but when I go to view, Acrobat viewer comes up with the splash screen but doesn't open the pdf file. I can see wherethe program writes the pdf but when I go back to TexnicCenter The program is "Not Responding" for about a minute, then I get this error: [attachment=0 ![]() ![]() I can view the file in Acrobat if I use the open command in Acrobat and locate it. so far TexnicCenter has placed it in the source file directory. Thanks, Paul |
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