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
Prerequisites
Installing a basic MiKTeX system
Installing a complete MiKTeX system
Task #1: Download the complete MiKTeX distribution
Task #2: Install MiKTeX
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