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---+ Emacs, <noc>LaTeX, and UNIX Tools for Windows Users | [[DocProcess][More Here]]
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   * The major components below are automatically available in Linux with very little effort (e.g., <noc>RedHat, Mandrake, Debian) 
   * Click [[http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/nt_to_unix.html][here]] for an article describing why Linux/Unix is superior to Microsoft Windows in almost every way. 
   * Read Allin Cottrell's [[http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html][Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient]] article  

It is almost impossible to keep current on all components of Emacs and <noc>LaTeX that might be of interest to statisticians. The documents available from this page are already out of date. To install zip files you get from here, it is recommended that you use =unzip95= from [[%ATTACHURL%/utilities.zip][here]] or a current version of [[http://www.winzip.com][WinZip]] (=WinZip= is required to install Emacs). It is extremely important that you unzip files into the indicated target directories.
   * [[%ATTACHURL%/desktop.zip][Windows 95/98 Desktop Folder]] for navigating the WWW to learn more about, and obtain current software for, <noc>LaTeX, Emacs, Cygwin32, and other tools. Unzip =desktop.zip= into =c:\Windows= for Win 95/98 or into =c:\Documents and Settings\youruserid= for NT/Windows 2000. This will add a new folder called =Doc Processing= to your desktop. There are many shortcuts that will be created that point to software you probably don't have installed, such as Mayura Draw, Ghostview, etc. Should you decide to install these, these short cuts will become active should you install the software in the same directories referred to in these short cuts. Many other links are to the WWW (e.g., FAQs for Emacs, online help for <noc>LaTeX) so these will be instantly available to you. 
   * [[http://xemacs.org][Xemacs]] is probably the easiest version of Emacs to install and use on Windows. 
   * Click [[%ATTACHURL%/utilities.zip][here]] to download =utilities.zip=. Extract the part of it you need into =c:=. Add =c:\utilities= to the path in your =c:\autoexec.bat= file (along with other changes listed for =autoexec.bat= below) and restart your computer to make the new path take effect. 

Once you have =Xemacs= installed you will have access to the latest versions of the =AucTeX=, =RefTeX=, and =ESS= Emacs packages.  You can use the =Xemacs Tools Packages= menus to install or update these packages as needed.

The =utilities= directory also installed other useful programs. Three are =ispell= and versions of =telnet= and =ftp= that work well with Emacs.

Click [[http://www.math.utah.edu/~djohnson/reference/EmacsRefcard.pdf][here]] to get the GNU Emacs Reference Card. Note: The card doesn't look good on the screen but it prints well.
 
   * To get a really nice <noc>LaTeX to HTML converter by Luc Maranget, translated to Win32 by Philip Viton, click [[http://www.arch.ohio-state.edu/crp/faculty/pviton/support/hevea.html][here]] to obtain Hevea. This will download =winport.zip= which you should put in a temporary area. Unlike =latex2html=, Hevea can translate many equations and other symbols to HTML code without the need to convert them to graphics. Once you download =winport.zip=, create a directory named =hevea= under =c:\utilities= and extract into =c:\utilities\hevea=. The above =utilities= installation installed =c:\utilities\hevea.bat= for running Hevea with this setup (and remember that =c:\utilities= is or should be in your path, making the =hevea= command available). Copy =c:\utilities\hevea\hevea.sty= to =c:\tex\texmf\tex\latex\local= after you install <noc>FPTeX (below), and run =mktexlsr= as described elsewhere. Also in =utilities= you will find a little bash shell program named =htmlf= that you can run =.h!
 tml= files created by Hevea through, to change the <noc>LaTeX --- into a single long dash, to change the <noc>LaTeX -- into a single dash in HTML, and to use an ordinary background color. You can run =htmlf= from a bash shell by typing =htmlf name=, which will recreate =name.html= making the above changes. 

Hevea is handy for providing <noc>LaTeX documents to Microsoft Office users. Under Microsoft Word 97 or later you can open an =.html= document and convert it to Word format. Subscripts, superscripts, and other components of simple equations are preserved. Bibliography files, which Hevea automatically places in the =.html= file it creates, are converted nicely along with hyperlinks between the citations and the bibliographic entries. Some tables convert nicely, although unlike Internet Explorer, Word 97 does not implement all of the HTML table components you need.
   *  [[http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/setup][MikTeX]] is an excellent free <noc>LaTeX system for Windows. It comes with a nice package manager for adding components and updating styles from the Internet. 
   * [[http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/][FPTeX]], another excellent free version of <noc>LaTeX for Windows. Once you are in CTAN, search for the term =fptex=. This points you to the latest version (probably fptex-0.6, may be installed using =TeXSetup.exe= on the above link. Once you install <noc>FPTeX, put local style files in =c:\TeX\texmf\tex\latex\local= and then: 
<verbatim>
cd \TeX\texmf \tex\bin\win32\mktexlsr 
</verbatim>
The =mktexlsr= command needs to be run every time to add additional styles.
If you want to download bibliography style files from CTAN such as the =agsm.bst= for use with the built-in =harvard.sty=, put these in =/tex/texmf/bibtex/bst/local= (you may have to create the =local= subdirectory) and run =mktexlsr= as above. 

Next, do the following to finish installation of <noc>FPTeX. Edit =\tex\texmf.local\dvips\config\config.ps= by deleting the following line: 
<verbatim>
o |lpr
</verbatim>
and by inserting the following line: 
<verbatim>
o \\foo\bar
</verbatim>
to use for example =bar= is the printer on share =foo=. There are also 2 lines to uncomment to use Type 1 fonts, although I don't know if this is really needed. With <noc>FPTeX's automatic installation you may not need to worry about any of this anyway. 

Using Microsoft Explorer, associate =windvi= with file type =.dvi=:
<verbatim>
View ... Folder Options ... File Types Description: TeX DVI
File Assoc. Ext.: .dvi 
Content type: application/x-dvi New ... 
Action:open Browse: TeX/bin/win32/windvi
</verbatim>
You may want to associate =.txt= and other file types with =c:\utilities\gnuclientw.exe=. 

The main commands for running <noc>FPTeX components (after rebooting to set the PATH) are:
<verbatim>
latex file compiles file.tex into file.dvi 
pdflatex file compiles file.tex into file.pdf
dvips -o file.ps file produce .ps file from .dvi file
dvips -Pwww -o file.ps file use Type 1 fonts for better screen viewing
dvips file send file.dvi to printer
bibtex file
makeindx file
windvi file .dvi viewer
</verbatim>
Note that =pdflatex=, which uses nice Type 1 fonts for screen viewing of documents, requires that inserted graphics be in =pdf= format or other formats such as =jpeg= or =png=. You must convert postscript documents to =pdf= to include them in the final document. Adobe Acrobat Distiller (which is not free), Ghostscript, and the =epstopdf= command (see above) assist with this.
   * [[http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~anh/TeXmacs/TeXmacs.html][TeXmacs, ]] a free WYSIWYG front-end to <noc>LaTeX for scientific writing (Linux users may prefer a KDE package =kile= for doing this)
   * [[http://www.word2tex.com][word2tex]], an easy to use shareware Word97 text conversion program for converting Word documents to <noc>TeX or <noc>LaTeX. When you install =word2tex= you can do =File ... Save as ... tex= under Word 97. Initial tests are quite promising although when the Word document contains graphics, the =.eps= files created have some problems. To convert the other way, consider =Hevea=. 
   * [[ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/win32/fptex/0.7/package/pdfscreen.zip][pdfscreen]], a wonderful <noc>LaTeX style class for creating online documents using <noc>LaTeX. Create a new directory =c:\tex\texmf\tex\latex\local\pdfscreen= and unzip into that directory. Run =mktexlsr= as above. 
   * [[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/][Ghostview/Ghostscript]] for viewing postscript files and much more. Download the latest Aladdin Ghostscript and Ghostview software to a temporary directory. Override the installation location to specify =c:\gstools= and make the group name =Gstools=.  The =utilities= directory (see above) includes a Perl program for converting from ps to pdf format (especially useful with =pdflatex=), and a batch file for running Ghostscript to convert from postscript to Adobe Illustrator format. AI files can be edited by Mayura Draw for example and written back out as postscript or other formats. 
   * [[http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/][Cygwin]], a comprehensive set of UNIX tools for Win32/NT (may also be obtained from [[http://www.cygnus.com/cygwin/][here]]). For installing some Emacs and <noc>LaTeX software you may need the =make= utility. For this you need the =full.exe= install (13MB). Click [[http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq/][here]] for Cygwin's FAQ. Note: Since Cygnus was bought by <noc>RedHat, installation is more difficult but the software has been updated. Get in the =latest= directory and download =setup.exe= to a temporary directory. Get in a DOS window, change to this temporary directory, and type =setup=. Specify a root area of =C:\= instead of =C:\cygwin=. Let =setup= create =C:\bin, C:\usr, C:\var, C:\etc, c:\lib=.

Invoke the =Bash= Unix-like command shell by executing =c:\bin\bash.exe=. Under Windows 2000, don't invoke it by running =c:\bin\cygwin.bat= as this will cause your system =PATH= to be truncated. 
   * [[http://www.ActiveState.com/][Active Perl]], a powerful language used for many file processing and conversion applications. 
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   * Go to [[http://sbm.temple.edu/~rmh/emacs.install.html][Rich Heiberger]]'s Emacs/LaTeX/etc. distribution 

-- Main.ColeBeck - 09 Mar 2004
Topic attachments
I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
zip	desktop.zip	manage	92.8 K	09 Mar 2004 - 13:13	ColeBeck
txt	s2latx.pl.txt	manage	1.8 K	29 Jun 2009 - 14:32	FrankHarrell	s2latx.pl perl script
sty	sinput.sty	manage	0.7 K	09 Mar 2004 - 13:26	ColeBeck
zip	utilities.zip	manage	483.3 K	09 Mar 2004 - 13:16	ColeBeck
Topic revision: r6 - 01 Mar 2010, FrankHarrell
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