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Setting up LaTeX on Windows

This is much easier under Linux but a significant (most?) number of our members use Windows and so here are some guidelines and a little help on getting everything setup on Windows.

Windows

Our basic setup consists of the following programs (install them in the order they are listed to avoid any confusion):

• MikTex, a Windows implementation of Tex (Be warned that the diagrams will not look correct in the DVI viewer with Miktex, you will have to make postscript files).
• GhostView and GhostScript for creating and viewing postscript files (You need these to see the diagrams correctly).
• WinEDT, the editor. WinEDT has its own users site where help, tutorials etc. are available.
• PSTricks

If you are in Cape Town, South Africa contact Spencer on the admin list about picking up a CD with the software on it from the Physics Dept. at UCT. The download time in SA for MikTex is extremely long!

Getting Up and Running

There is a GREAT tutorial on how to set everything up here. I recommend following the instructions in the tutorial and also reading this.

Once you have MikTex etc. setup you can proceed to installing the additional PSTricks packages listed on the PSTricks page.

NB: Warning

We have found that making a DVI file and viewing it on Windows results in incorrectly rendered drawings (all rput commands don't work) but running dvi2ps/pdf and viewing the resulting documents will produce figures which are correct.