LaTeX for Windows (MiKTeX)

\\winstorage\MikTex\MiKTeX29\

Many people (students and employees) have sent us an email the last couple of days, supporting our statement that we need a site license for WinEdt. We would like to thank everybody for their support, because it helped to show how much this program is needed!

Since we believe that WinEdt is essential for a user friendly LaTeX environment for Windows, we have decided that the TU/e MiKTeX installation will be unavailable until the WinEdt license has been renewed. But this will only happen if we manage to convince the departmental software coordinators that (many) people at their department use WinEdt. So if you need a WinEdt license, please send an email to Marko Boon stating your name and department. We hope that a lot of these emails will show that WinEdt is essential for all departments at our university.

Marko Boon, Wil Kortsmit, Jan de Jong, and Jan Willem Knopper.

Instructions on how to solve this can be found at http://www.win.tue.nl/bcf/diensten/nsc/2010-winedt-uk.php.

To install the MiKTeX version that contains these files (or to upgrade from another MiKTeX version) run the MiKTeX install program from \\webmath1\miktex27\.

• It is possible to download fax and letter examples (which need the updated MiKTeX to run).
• At the TU/e Corporate Identity website there is a guide about writing in the TU/e huisstijl (in general, not just for using LaTeX). It is available in Dutch and English. 2018-07-20: updated links for the guides.

Downloads:

• TU/e PDFScreen sample presentation
• TU/e PDFScreen 2008 files
• TU/e Beamer 2008 files

• XeTeX: a new TeX engine which is similar to LaTeX, but it is a unicode TeX engine. The main feature of XeTeX is that it can use native fonts, so you can use all of your Windows fonts in LaTeX now. The disadvantage at this moment is that WinEdt has no XeTeX button yet, so you have to compile your document from the command line (or add a xetex button manually). More information about XeTeX can be found in the following document: xelatextest.pdf. The LaTeX source of this document is also available: xelatextest.tex.
• Most recent versions of WinEdt (5.5 build 20071003), GhostScript (8.61), GSView (4.9) and tuepdfscreen and tuebeamer(2008).

If you want access to the MiKTeX 2.7 installation, please send an e-mail to Marko Boon.

If you have a working MiKTeX 2.4 installation, you do not have to upgrade, but as soon as you want to install missing packages, you will see that they are not available anymore. So anybody who wants to install missing packages, needs to upgrade to version 2.5.

The TU/e MiKTeX installation works on 32 bit Windows Vista computers, but only if you choose "Run As Administrator" when running the installation program. Some MiKTeX programs, like the installation of missing packages, require administrator rights as well. So MiKTeX 2.5 works with Windows Vista, but some things could be improved. We have also installed MiKTeX 2.5 on a 64 bit Windows 2003 Server computer and it seems to work as well, but no optimised 64 bit executables are available at this moment.

Currently we are working on a TU/e MiKTeX 2.6 CD-ROM, but since MiKTeX 2.6 is only in beta stage at this moment, there is no final version of this CD-ROM yet. Do not expect many changes, except the fact that several programs will work better on a Windows Vista computer.

• Newer versions of the programs: MiKTeX 2.5, WinEdt 5.5, GhostScript 8.54, GSView 4.8. Some of the new features in these programs are: Yap supports PostScript specials, a new help system for all installed packages
• Better support for multi-user systems. All programs are installed for all users, so all features (including WinEdt settings and plug-ins) will be available for all users.
• It is possible to choose a Custom installation, which makes it possible to review and change all the installation settings, e.g. the installation folders (which now default to C:\Program Files). Another setup type is the "Complete MiKTeX installation" which installs every official package that is available.
• Great improvements to EPS2PDF: now you can drag as many files as you want onto the icon, and all of them will be converted to PDF. Now finally EPS files with a binary header/preview are also supported.
• The TU/e Style for the beamer package is included.

One small remark: MiKTeX 2.5 cannot be installed on Windows Vista systems, and 64 bit computers. In January 2007 MiKTeX 2.6 will solve these problems.

The standard LaTeX package beamer has become the most popular package to create beamer presentations. A TU/e style for beamer has been written that creates slides in the TU/e style. The style files and sample source code can be found here:

• Style files (unpack in C:\MiKTeX\localtexmf\tex\latex\tuebeamer and refresh filename database)
• Sample code and example
• PDF Beamer example and documentation

The TU/e style for beamer, and the beamer and pgf packages, will be included in the future version of the MiKTeX 2.5 CD-ROM which is expected later this year.

\movie{width}{height}{movie_file}

You can see the result on page 26 of the presentation: slides.pdf.
You download the new TU/e PDFScreen in ZIP format (extract to your MiKTeX installation directory): tuepdfscreen.zip.

The year starts very well with the release of the TU/e MiKTeX 2.4 CD-ROM. New features are:

• installs MiKTeX 2.4:
  • Automatic package installation!. No more trouble with missing style files: all uninstalled MiKTeX packages will be installed automatically while running LaTeX.
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  • All standard LaTeX packages are no longer installed in the local TeXmf tree, but in the TeXmf tree. This means that they will be included in the MiKTeX update if you run this program.
  • Finding out usages of packages in a LaTeX job.

  See the official announcement at www.miktex.org for more detailed information.

• Some minor bugfixes in WinEdt 5.4
• GSView 4.5
• GhostScript 8.13

• installs MiKTeX 2.2:
  • several Yap bug fixes
  • PDF 1.4 support and generation
  • MiKTeX Package Manager for easy finding and installation of LaTeX packages
• WinEdt 5.4
• GSView 4.4
• GhostScript 8.0
• improved TrueType Font to LaTeX font conversion
• Mathematica 4.2 font and style support
• More TU/ePDFScreen backgrounds

Micrographx Designer is no longer part of the MiKTeX CD-ROM, since the TU/e license for this program has expired.
WinEdt and GSView are no longer automatically registered. The installation program opens the registration web page (see below) from any computer that is connected to the TU/e network.

Please note that the license code of WinEdt for employees of the TU/e has been renewed. Please update your code!

Download: pp4.jar

TU/ePDFScreen enhanced (again)

• English Instructions: since we wanted to rewrite parts of the TU/ePDFScreen manual, we decided to translate it to English. You can still find the manual here:

  slides.pdf

  We added more detailed instructions on how to create transparent sheets, how to print handouts and captions and references.

• new command added: \tuebox which shows a shadowbox in TU/e colours. It can be used for fancy titles.
• it is finally possible to add captions to an image or table.
• the section* bug is fixed. You no longer have to use our sectionnolabel command.
• We created a user-friendly program called AddPause that opens your PDF file and runs PPower4. This means that you can build slides in multiple stages using the extremely simple \pause command.

Download and installation instructions:

1. Download the file tuepdfscreen.zip and open it
2. Unzip it into your MiKTeX directory (usually C:\MiKTeX)
3. Open Start Menu -> Programs -> MiKTeX -> MiKTeX Options
4. Press the "Refresh Now" button in the Filename Database section.
5. Open the file C:\MiKTeX\localtexmf\examples\presentatie\slides.tex for the source code.

TU/e Style for articles, reports and books

Mathematica font problem fixed

• Better looking (of course this is just our opinion)
• Page numbering (if desired)
• Nicer looking bottom navigation buttons
• A4 option, to create printable slides (not for computer presentations)
• Handouts option, suitable for printing handouts
• PPower4 is included. This is a post-processing program, written in Java, which makes it extremely easy to build up your slides in several steps. You just need to use the \pause command. But Java has to be installed. We did not yet integrate this in WinEdt.

Here you can see a sample of how the new presentations look: slides.pdf

MiKTeX uninstaller

• WinEdt version with some important bug fixes (pdflatex warnings and network files).
• latest MiKTeX base installation
• additional packages in the localtexmf tree (rotating, marvosym)

• installs MiKTeX 2.1 which makes it easy to download the latest version of all your style files
• GhostScript 7.00 and GhostView 4.0
• WinEdt 5.3 with better support for Java
• creating PDF documents from your LaTeX file is now easier than ever, even if you have pictures
• Acrobat Reader 5.0
• New localtexmf tree, with Euro symbol support
• JFig, an XFig clone written in Java

ttf2ltx.exe

There is a separate version for Windows 2000:

ttf2ltx2000.exe

Installation and Usage

1. Save the tool in your MikTeX directory (usually c:\miktex), preferrably in the subdirectory localtexmf\utils
2. Create a shortcut to the tool on your desktop or in your start menu (if you have any trouble with this step, you can contact BCF or any other computer specialist)
3. Open the program by double-clicking the shortcut
4. Select the font you want to use in LaTeX. You should select all versions of this font if available (bold, italic and/or bold+italic). Then click the OK button.
5. Select a name you want to use for this font in LaTeX. A maximum of 8 letters is allowed.
6. Click on the Ok button and wait until a final confirmation

Now you can use the font in LaTeX. This can be done in the following way (for more information, see the LaTeX Companion, chapter 7, especially from page 173 onwards).

This line should always be included BEFORE your \begin{document} line:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

If you want to use your new font only in some parts of the text, you should add these lines before the specific part:

\fontfamily{comic}

\selectfont

Where comic should be replaced by LaTeX name that you gave to your font. To change back to the default font, add these lines after the part with your new font:

\fontfamily{\rmdefault}

\selectfont

If you would like the new font as default font for your whole document, including chapter and section headings, you should put these lines BEFORE \begin{document}:

\renewcommand{\familydefault}{comic}

Sample files