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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/source/texlive/texlive-en/windows.tex b/Master/texmf-doc/source/texlive/texlive-en/windows.tex index 2564c8e0dcc..15d1c6762a3 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/source/texlive/texlive-en/windows.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/source/texlive/texlive-en/windows.tex @@ -1,10 +1,96 @@ -registry -more automatic postinstall -user vs system -gs, perl, psv -file associations -shortcuts -fc-cache +\section{Notes on Windows} +\label{sec:windows} + +This edition of \TL, we built a unified installer for Windows and +Unix. We limited support to Windows 2000, XP and Vista. These +versions are less quirky than their predecessors, and have user home +directories (\verb|%USERPROFILE%|). + +%\subsection{Different user expectations} +% +%We made some effort to conform to expectations of Windows users: the +%installer defaults to \GUI{} mode; the default install location is +%\dirname{Program Files}, it creates shortcuts to some +%documentation and some \GUI{} utilities; it creates an entry in +%Add/Remove Programs, and there is no need for any manual +%configuration afterwards. +% +%A second issue is that Windows users are often unaware of different +%levels of user permissions. Later Windows versions make some +%rudimentary differentiation between administrators and regular +%users, but non-administrators can \emph{e.g.} still write to many +%locations outside their `home' directory., We tried to deal with this as +%unobtrusively as possible. + +\subsection{Additional included software} + +\begin{figure}[tb] +\tlpng{psview}{.6\linewidth} +\caption{PS\_View: very high magnifications available!}\label{fig:psview} +\end{figure} + +To be complete, a \TL installation needs support packages that are not +commonly found on a Windows machine. \TL{} provides the missing +pieces: +\begin{description} +\item[Perl and Ghostscript] Because of the importance of Perl and + Ghostscript, \TL{} includes `hidden' copies of these + programs. \TL{} programs that need them know where to find them, + but they don't betray their presence through environment variables + or registry settings. They aren't full-scale distributions, and + shouldn't interfere with a normal installation of Perl or + Ghostscript. +\item[Command-line tools] A number of Windows ports of common Unix + command-line programs are installed along with the usual \TL{} + binaries. These include gzip, chktex, jpeg2ps, unzip, wget and the + command-line utilities from the xpdf suite. +\item[PS\_View] Also installed is PS\_View, a new PostScript viewer + with a free license; see figure~\ref{fig:psview}. +\end{description} +\begin{description} +\item[The \texttt{support} directory], already mentioned in + section~\ref{sec:tld}. This directory contains various programs + which can be useful in connection with \TeX, in particular a + number of \TeX-aware editors and \TeX{} frontends. The software in + this directory isn't covered by the installer. +\end{description} + +\subsection{Urls for additional downloadable software} + +Urls for some other tools you may consider installing: +\begin{description} +\item[Ghostscript] \url{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/} +\item[Perl] \url{http://www.activestate.com/} (but you might need some + supplementary packages from CPAN: \url{http://www.cpan.org/}) +\item[ImageMagick] \url{http://www.imagemagick.com} +\item[NetPBM] alternatively, you could use NetPBM instead of ImageMagick to + process or convert your graphic files. NetPBM home page is + \url{http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/} +\item[\TeX-oriented editors] There is a wide choice, and it is a matter of the + user's taste. Here is a selection: + \begin{itemize*} + \item \cmdname{GNU Emacs} is available natively under Windows, see + \url{http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html} + \item \cmdname{Emacs} with AucTeX is available natively under Windows, see + \url{ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex} + \item \cmdname{WinShell} is available on \TL in the \path|support| + directory, see \url{http://www.winshell.de} + \item \cmdname{WinEdt} is shareware available from \url{http://www.winedt.com} + \item \cmdname{Vim} is available from \url{http://www.vim.org} + \item TeXnicCenter is free software, available from + \url{http://www.toolscenter.org} and in the proTeXt distribution. + \item \cmdname{LEd} is available from \url{http://www.ctan.org/support/LEd} + \item \cmdname{SciTE} is available from \url{http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html} + \end{itemize*} +\end{description} + +%registry +%user vs system +%file associations +%path problem +%non-admin +%network install +%fc-cache %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex |