Updated: 29 July 2011

Mik­TeX

• Down­load and run the setup pro­gram for Mik­TeX. Choose the “basic” system.

TeXs­tu­dio

• Down­load and run the installer pro­gram for TeXs­tu­dio.

Con­fig­u­ra­tion for peo­ple work­ing with me

• Unzip these files in the direc­tory “C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex”
• Run “Set­tings” from Start, Pro­grams, Mik­TeX 2.9, and do the following:
  1. Click “Refresh FNDB” to refresh the file­name database.
  2. Select “Yes” in the box at the bot­tom of the win­dow to install pack­ages on the fly. This means that any required pack­ages will be auto­mat­i­cally installed with­out you hav­ing to worry about it.
  3. Click OK to exit “Mik­TeX Options”. It may take a while to close while it down­loads the pack­age database.
• Finally, to make sure every­thing is work­ing ok, open sample.tex in TeXs­tu­dio to see an exam­ple of a LaTeX file. Click on “Quick build” (or hit F1) and the file should be processed and appear in a sep­a­rate win­dow. Study the dif­fer­ence between the orig­i­nal file and the final prod­uct to learn some basic LaTeX commands.

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